Whataboutism and Great Power Diplomacy
We need a more rigorous understanding of the phenomenon of whataboutism. There is a great deal at stake here since politicians and diplomats use this diversionary tactic to argue about…
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The Centre Cannot Hold: The Death Throes of the Russian Federation
The 22 of September 2022, the day on which Putin declared that he would be instituting a national conscription programme to obtain troops to fight in Ukraine, marked the beginning…
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Something Worse than Liberal Hegemony
On the twentieth anniversary of the September 11 attacks, the Economist published an essay entitled “How America wasted its unipolar moment.” It was a familiar story in a popular genre…
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Why Germany is Bracing for a Cold Winter
Just a couple of months ago, anyone who had seriously wondered whether the German energy grid might collapse would have been derided as a doom-monger. Only survivalist preppers and other…
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The Curious Leaderlessness of Modern Movements
In the summer of 2020, at the height of the Covid pandemic, America was raging at the death of George Floyd and violent protests took place in multiple cities. In…
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In Defence of Internationalism
It’s crucial to avoid arguments that rely on the stale adage that the enemy of my enemy is my friend. It’s equally crucial to remain unswayed by the accusation that…
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Queer: A New Narrative
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.—Ludwig Wittgenstein When early twentieth-century philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein wrote the above quotation, he was cautioning readers that…
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Funding Pollution: Big Ag and the Dutch Farmers’ Protests
The international alt-right has praised the recent farmers’ protests in the Netherlands as the latest people’s revolt against out-of-touch elites. For former US president Donald Trump, French National Rally leader…
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Criminal Kleptocrats and the Looting of Africa
Anthony Trollope’s satirical novel The Way We Live Now (1875) contains a character by the name of Augustus Melmotte. A crooked financier of shadowy origins, Augustus has absconded from Paris…
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Rainbows and Hypocrisies: LGBT Activism in Football
In recent years, international sport has become immensely commercialized and professionalized. But these trends have undergone rapid change with the intervention of woke activism. People from all walks of life…
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Abortion and the Legitimacy of the US Supreme Court
From 1973 until 23 June 2022, all American women had the constitutional right to an abortion. On 24 June 2022, in the case Dobbs v. Jackson’s Women’s Health Organization, the…
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Nathan Robinson’s Response to the Right
There is a natural instinct in unthinking people—who, tolerant of the burdens that life lays on them, and unwilling to lodge blame where they seek no remedy, seek fulfilment in…
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The Courageous Women of Iran
Twenty-two-year-old Iranian woman Mahsa Amini was recently allegedly dragged through the streets and thrown into a police van by Iran’s Guardian Patrols, often known as the morality police, on the…
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Putin’s Russia and the One World System
As Europe disappears, Eurasia coheres. The supercontinent is becoming one fluid, comprehensible unit of trade and conflict, … every crisis from Central Europe to the ethnic Han Chinese heartland is…
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Hindu Vegetarianism: Religion and Animal Rights in India
Although vegetarianism is more popular in India than in the west, this is not primarily motivated by a concern for animal rights. Animals are used extensively for food, leather and…
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Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò’s “Against Decolonisation”
The idea of decolonisation has been a fad in western discourse for the past few years. Of course, when one thinks of decolonisation, the national liberation movements that engulfed Africa…
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The Continuing Plight of Women under the Taliban
A decree to ban women from employment, bar them from entering educational institutions, incarcerate them in their homes—and impose the burqa on those who venture beyond their walls: this horrifying,…
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Reasons to Be Jubilant
On 2 June, I travelled down to London to attend one of those unusual events that somehow manage to be at once an embodiment of the stereotypical idea of what…
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