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China Using One Belt One Road Initiative In Africa

To spread authoritarianism globally.

Sportswoman of the Year in New Zealand

Controversial transgender weightlifter Laurel Hubbard.

The Quest for Rare Wood is Endangering Forests

Now we can just 3D-print replicas made from wood waste instead.

Real Estate Newsletter

The fight for L.A.’s most extravagant mansion.

Canada’s ‘Bank of Mom and Dad’ Returning Us to 19th-Century Inheritance Culture

The large-scale transfer of inter-generational wealth is a sign this country is reverting to the harsh class system that once dominated Britain, France and Russia.

’'My Little Pony’ Goes Woke

Netflix’s ‘political’ movie shows the baddies as ‘anti-science’ as the progressive ponies unite with a message of unity and reform.

Psychological Warfare. Public Opinion Warfare. Legal Warfare.

‘3 Warfares’ doctrine underpins the Chinese Communist Party’s sprawling campaign to infiltrate the West.

On Facebook Before the 2020 Election

Troll farms reached 140 million Americans a month.

California's Vanishing Hippie Utopias

The last glimpses.

How Labour Became the Nasty Party

Social justice has become a form of persecution.

The Daily Horror of Being a GP

The NHS is forcing us to betray our parents.

The Smackdown Heard Across Latin America

Uruguay puts the Cuban dictatorship in its place.

$385 Billion

42 countries owe that much to China.

The Culture War

Is coming for your genes...

Labour Is Now the Party of Hate

How did it come to attract such a gaggle of freaks?

First Artificial Kidney That Would Free People From Dialysis and Transplants

Runs on blood pressure.

The Importance of Repression

Philip Rieff predicted that therapy culture would end in barbarism.

How to Write 10,000 Words a Week

The most productive writers know that writing is only one step in a larger process.

Do Americans Know What a Massive Ripoff American Life Really Is?

What it means when I say America is the world’s first poor rich country.

Pang of Regret

How endangered pangolins are beaten with sticks, boiled alive and sold for millions of dollars.

Our Self-Loathing Universities

The optimistic modernism of post-war higher education has been betrayed.

Medical Journal Apologizes

For its empowering call to ‘bodies with vaginas.’

No Species Is an Island

Cooperation in nature is the key to survival, including our own.

‘An Incident of Political Persecution’

How China is framing the Meng affair.

Deep Dive

Joseph Campbell’s ‘Hero’s Journey.’

‘Bodies With Vaginas’

Lancet slammed for ‘erasing women’ after promoting latest issue with controversial quote.

Call of The Wild

Why many scientists say it’s unlikely that SARS-CoV-2 originated from a ‘lab leak.’

Enlisted, Enslaved, Enthroned

Vandals, Goths, Alemanni, Sueves... the Romans grappled endlessly with the status of ethnic peoples in their vast empire.

Plagues and Empires

What can the decline of the Roman Empire and the end of European feudalism tell us about COVID-19 and the future of the West?

Vast Early America

There is no American history without the histories of Indigenous and enslaved peoples. And this past has consequences today.

An Idea With Bite

The ‘selfish gene’ persists for the reason all good scientific metaphors do: it remains a sharp tool for clear thinking.

What Is ‘The West’?

While the West belonged to a European geography, its name meant something. Now it is a vague invocation, laden with fear.