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What Are The Aims of The “Free Kashmir” Movement?
Understanding a strange but increasingly talked-about cause
A few days ago my wife was busy looking at the statements of the candidates for New York City Council. That was when she noticed that one young man in our district, Haris Bhatti,...
More Graphic Depictions of News The Mainstream Media Ignores
Other stories that you wouldn’t know simply by listening to CNN and the usual suspects
After Ukrainian drones struck Russian data centers on October 7, Twitter/X’s Radar data reports showed a sudden fall in the use of the phrase “Free Pale...
What Reza Aslan’s Acclaim Tells Us About The Intelligentsia’s Dangerous Ignorance of Religion
A look at a famous “authority’s” views: Part one of two
It’s almost a requirement these days for a popular intellectual or college professor: You must be blithely ignorant about the tenets and practices of the major religions.
Why Does Israel Have Such A High Birth Rate?
The answer might save the Western World
Throughout the industrialized world, birth rates are tumbling.
Shouldn’t One of The Greatest Novels Be Taught In Schools?
(This is an article that I wrote roughly a decade ago. But the questions it asks — what makes a great novel and why isn’t Maugham’s “Of Human Bondage” universally acknowledged to be one — apply just as much today. There is no paywall.)
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Jonathan Leaf is a playwright and novelist. His new book The Primate Myth was recently selected by Engelsberg Ideas as one of the Best Books of 2025 and named by Joel Kotkin as one of three books to read for 2026.
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