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The Moral Clarity of Sam Harris
Sam Harris. Screenshot (adjusted) from his YouTube podcast.
The title of this essay will have already divided some readers before I get to the first argument. For many, the words “Sam Harris” and “moral clarity” in the same line are uncont...
How Liberalism Got Hacked by Victimism
Photograph by Tomasz Kizny
The Soviet Gulag was one of the cruellest inventions in human history. Like the concentration camps of Nazi Germany, it attracted its share of sadists. One notorious punishment was to tie naked prisoners to a tre...
Henry Nowak’s Death Shames a Country
“I don’t think you have, mate”.
But he had been stabbed. Henry Nowak, 18, lay handcuffed on a Southampton pavement last December, telling the police what had happened, saying nine times that he couldn’t breathe. Meanwhile, the man who’d k...
Reading in a Cynical Age
Photo by Michał Parzuchowski on Unsplash
In the first year of this century, I was down and out in Prague, doing a bad impression of Orwell but without a book to show for it at the end. Skint and dislocated, I slept on a lilo in somebody’s...
Where Are the Disavowals of Islamist Violence?
Why does asking this question get met with abuse?
Imagine Catholics were walking into pop concerts and blowing up children. Picture the scene as extremists drive vans into a crowd of people or self-detonate on an underground train while ci...
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