# The Gadfly

Skewering the absurdities of our age. Making sense of the ideas behind them.

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## [Educated Beyond Common Sense](https://www.gadflynotes.com/p/educated-beyond-common-sense)

_2026-08-18 · Frederick Alexander_

How the confidently stupid captured our institutions.

## [Jason Arday and the Idiocy of the Intellectual Class](https://www.gadflynotes.com/p/the-idiocy-of-the-intellectual-class)

_2026-08-05 · Frederick Alexander_

What the Cambridge scandal reveals about our captured institutions.

## [The World's Stupidest Sentence is Now the Tallest](https://www.gadflynotes.com/p/the-worlds-stupidest-sentence-is)

_2026-08-01 · Frederick Alexander_

How borrowed feelings do the thinking for us.

## [Killed by the Revolution He Admired](https://www.gadflynotes.com/p/condemned-to-be-free)

_2026-07-24 · Frederick Alexander_

A Marxist academic died defending the regime that killed him. The pathology that got him there is thriving.

## [The Worst People in the World](https://www.gadflynotes.com/p/the-worst-people-in-the-world)

_2026-07-12 · Frederick Alexander_

Hatred as virtue – the sickness of the #BeKind Left.

## [America, the Impossible Superpower](https://www.gadflynotes.com/p/america-the-impossible-superpower)

_2026-07-01 · Frederick Alexander_

While Europe decays and China surveils, America still believes it can do anything.

## [When Leaders Sounded Like They Believed in Something](https://www.gadflynotes.com/p/when-leaders-sounded-like-they-believed)

_2026-06-26 · Frederick Alexander_

From Reagan and Thatcher to the age of spin, the strange decline of political conviction.

## [It’s the Culture, Stupid](https://www.gadflynotes.com/p/its-the-culture-stupid)

_2026-06-21 · Frederick Alexander_

Race is not culture. Pretending otherwise helped create this mess.

## [Elon Musk's Bananas](https://www.gadflynotes.com/p/elon-musks-bananas)

_2026-06-14 · Frederick Alexander_

An extended Note on the controversial trillionaire.

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## [The Moral Clarity of Sam Harris](https://www.gadflynotes.com/p/the-moral-clarity-of-sam-harris)

_2026-06-10 · Frederick Alexander_

Why the man who drives everyone nuts is maybe the one to trust.