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Constitutions, Frontiers, Revelations and Truths: New Books by Jonathan Rauch, A. C. Grayling, Erik Hoel and Salman Rushdie

This article consists of reviews of four books that, while different in many ways, have certain things in common. Some of the connections are fairly direct—A. C. Grayling’s The Frontiers…

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Middle Eastern Billionaires and the Working Man’s Game

“We got our club back! We got our club back!” fans of the Newcastle United Football Club chanted joyously outside St James’ Park stadium as the news broke that Mike…

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China’s Uyghur Prison-State

Genocide is a crime that has recurred throughout history, but that—one would hope—enlightened humanity would have put far behind it by now. But of course this is not the case.…

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Why We Should Treat the Bible as Literature, Not Scripture

In the 17 May 2021 episode of his podcast, Jordan Peterson talks to Stephen Fry about how atheists view the moral value of mythology. (Fry, a well-known atheist, is also…

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Autism and Its Abusers: The Contrasting Cases of James Damore and Greta Thunberg

In July 2017, engineer James Damore was fired for writing an internal memo entitled “Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber.” Although the memo offered ideas on how to make the company more…

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Updike’s Panther: Rabbit Redux at Fifty

“Say what you see.” That was Roy Walker’s advice to contestants on the UK quiz show Catchphrase. We are attracted to other people’s observations—it is one of the reasons we…

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Beating Them at their Own Game: Why Manga is Overtaking American Comics

These days, it’s taken for granted that the comics industry has become a media juggernaut in the western world—as evidenced by the myriad movies based on comic-book heroes that have…

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The Historical Revisionism of DMX’s Woodstock ’99 Performance

The documentary Woodstock 99: Peace, Love, and Rage recently dropped on HBO and select streaming platforms. It covers the disappointing second sequel (after ’94) to the 1969 Woodstock music festival,…

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Why Don’t We Have a Spotify Model for News?

I’ve never really needed to pay for my news. When I was a teenager, I’d buy magazines to learn about the latest in gaming, but by the time I reached…

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“The Great American Race Game.” Film Review

In its struggle against left-liberalism, one of the conundrums faced by the Anglo-American right in all its hues is how to shake off its longstanding image as a shady coterie…

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The Flat Earth Movement and the Problem with Scepticism

In May 2018, three men went on the British ITV programme This Morning to explain why they believed the earth was flat. “I think it’s right to be sceptical about…

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Black America: Is There Truth in Advertising?

If you’ve seen any American television advertising of late, you might easily conclude that the nation has undergone an astonishing demographic shift: there are no more white people. All right,…

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Where’s My Jetpack! How Future-Oriented Thinking Could Revolutionise Tourism

In Where’s My Jetpack?, Daniel H. Wilson takes a satirical look at the futuristic technologies that science fiction has optimistically imagined, but that have thus far not been invented, such…

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Crescent Capitalism: Islam and the Birth of the Free Market

Islamists, leftists and conservatives have long debated whether Islam is compatible with western liberal capitalism. Many have framed the history of capitalism as beginning in medieval Genoa and Venice, and…

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Constitutions, Frontiers, Revelations and Truths: New Books by Jonathan Rauch, A. C. Grayling, Erik Hoel and Salman Rushdie

Middle Eastern Billionaires and the Working Man’s Game

China’s Uyghur Prison-State

Why We Should Treat the Bible as Literature, Not Scripture

Autism and Its Abusers: The Contrasting Cases of James Damore and Greta Thunberg

Updike’s Panther: Rabbit Redux at Fifty

Beating Them at their Own Game: Why Manga is Overtaking American Comics

The Historical Revisionism of DMX’s Woodstock ’99 Performance

Why Don’t We Have a Spotify Model for News?

“The Great American Race Game.” Film Review

The Flat Earth Movement and the Problem with Scepticism

Black America: Is There Truth in Advertising?

Where’s My Jetpack! How Future-Oriented Thinking Could Revolutionise Tourism

Crescent Capitalism: Islam and the Birth of the Free Market

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