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Still More Graphical Representations of Unreported News Stories
Some charts and graphs on news stories the mainstream media is burying - or ignoring entirely
Adolescent U.S. girls have made a sudden retreat from saying that they are bisexual, as the chart above shows. The data is based on reports from...
Why Richard Dawkins Won’t Debate Me - And Can’t Really
I’ve written before about the unwillingness of any well-known proponent of the idea that humans are much like chimps and gorillas to debate me. Among those who have refused or ignored my requests for a public debate are Richard Dawkins, Jar...
An Earlier Clue That Director Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s “Digger” Was Going To Be A Monumental Disaster
(The new movie “Digger,” starring Tom Cruise, is getting awful reviews. Yet the movie’s director and co-writer, Alejandro G. Iñárritu, is one of only three filmmakers ever to win an Academy Award for best director two years in a row. As suc...
How A Creepy Academic Shows What’s Wrong With American Religious Colleges
What we can learn from Georgetown Professor Jonathan A.C. Brown
Georgetown University Islamic Studies professor Jonathan A. C. Brown is a jerk. That’s not what’s notable or important about him, however.
Why Kurt Weill Is Still So Important
A recent biography of the composer should remind us why his talent was so special
Some years ago, a New York Times classical music critic presented his list of the 10 greatest composers. Absent were Handel, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, Mahler, Puc...
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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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