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
Suppose you were a black professor at a prestigious university, someone of genuine intellectual distinction who earned every inch of your career through talent and relentless work. Yet you can’t quite shake the feeling – is it paranoia? – t...
The World's Stupidest Sentence is Now the Tallest
A few weeks ago, a Russian couple climbed to the top of the Empire State Building in New York, a feat of genuine bravery and skill. I’m not sure which laws they broke in the process, or whether they paid any price for such reckless behaviou...
Killed by the Revolution He Admired
Late on 22 December 1978, in a government guesthouse in Phnom Penh, the Scottish academic Malcolm Caldwell said goodnight to Elizabeth Becker, a journalist with whom he had spent the evening arguing about the country now ruled by Pol Pot.1...
The Worst People in the World
Hatred as virtue – the sickness of the #BeKind Left.
When an elderly woman is murdered in her own home, you might expect the people who never tire of telling everyone how good they are to respond as any decent person would: with shock and...
America, the Impossible Superpower
While Europe decays and China surveils, America still believes it can do anything.
America has a remarkable way of treating the impossible like a logistics problem. In 1961, after the country had put a man in space for all of fifteen minut...
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