Educated Beyond Common Sense
How the confidently stupid captured our institutions.
The Gadfly
Skewering the absurdities of our age. Making sense of the ideas behind them.
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Jason Arday and the Idiocy of the Intellectual Class
What the Cambridge scandal reveals about our captured institutions.
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How borrowed feelings do the thinking for us.
Killed by the Revolution He Admired
A Marxist academic died defending the regime that killed him. The pathology that got him there is thriving.
The Worst People in the World
Hatred as virtue – the sickness of the #BeKind Left.
America, the Impossible Superpower
While Europe decays and China surveils, America still believes it can do anything.
When Leaders Sounded Like They Believed in Something
From Reagan and Thatcher to the age of spin, the strange decline of political conviction.
It’s the Culture, Stupid
Race is not culture. Pretending otherwise helped create this mess.
Elon Musk's Bananas
An extended Note on the controversial trillionaire.
The Moral Clarity of Sam Harris
Why the man who drives everyone nuts is maybe the one to trust.