On The Hunt For Alien Life

The likelihood of its existence in some form in the universe is quite high.

Muslims Can Claim Benefits For Several Wives

Husbands who bring more than one wife to Britain can claim extra benefits for them at taxpayers’ expense.

My Best Friend Died From Loneliness

White, working-class, middle-aged Americans are one of the only demographics in the world that has seen its life expectancy fall. But Mike wasn’t just a statistic.

Oh, Rats

In Paris, champions of the surmulot impede public pest control.

‘Woke’ US Schools Scarier Than North Korea

Defector Yeonmi Park, who fled being a sex slave in North Korea, slams cancel culture at America’s Ivy League universities.

The 21st Century Form of Stockholm Syndrome

Multiculturalism has turned Sweden, once a crime free paradise of social welfare, into a war zone. Europe is doomed. 

Thanks to the Biden Administration

The growing power of the China-Iran alliance.

Pierre Poilievre Is Succeeding

The Conservative leader is keeping his party’s old guard happy while bringing in new soldiers.

The French Social Contract Is Broken

The driving force behind protests.

On the Edge of Civilization

Dignity yields to savagery.

Conservatism In Canada and the US

Is poised to make a comeback.

The Age of Average

When the world zigs. Zag.

The New Space Era

Will drive the economy of tomorrow.

Private Equity and Its Hospitals

‘Safety net hospitals’ serve communities like those in Delaware County, Pennsylvania. Finance companies serve themselves.

Wabi-Sabi

The art of imperfection.

Long Waits, Short Appointments, Huge Bills

US health care is causing patient burnout.

Homeless Homicides Are On the Rise

The rising number of unhoused people being murdered in the United States is a grim and urgent reminder of our country’s housing crisis.

Enlightenment From Below

Pirates and radical democracy in Madagascar (as I wrote about in Bandits of Madagascar).

Webb Telescope Finds An Exoplanet With Ingredients For Life

Water, methane, and carbon monoxide all exist on this distant exoplanet orbiting twin suns.

NASA Hopes To Clean Up Space Junk.

The days of uncluttered night skies are over.

The Many Lives of the Medieval Wound Man

An enigmatic figure’s journey through the centuries.

Artificial Idiocy

The problem with the new chatbots.

The African Power Grid Collapse

Is spreading.

The Sheilas Will Not Be Silenced

Kellie-Jay Keen’s tour of Australia and New Zealand has exposed the violent misogyny of trans activism.

In New Zealand

The shameful persecution of Posie Parker.

 

Where Does Giorgia Meloni Go

To get her apology?

The Hidden Cost of Carbon Taxes in Canada

Not one study has looked at how the carbon tax will be impacting food affordability.

Outer Space Treaties Didn't’t Anticipate the Privatization of Space Travel.

Can they be enforced?

The Long Delay Is Nearly Over

After a half-century of going nowhere, in 2022 American space travel got moving again. Here’s what changed.

Nature versus Culture

A moral chasm exists between those whose bodies and souls yearn for nature in the wild and those who need citified surroundings to feel fully alive.

Thousands of Patients. No Help.

Meet the lone family doctor of Verona, Ontario.

These Are Barbarous Times

Fyodor Dostoevsky on the nature of man.

Plant of the Month: Frangipani

An ornamental plant whose white flowers hang over graveyards and temples in Southeast Asia presents complicated questions on national belonging and religious identity.

Texting in Ancient Mayan Hieroglyphs

What Unicode will make possible.