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Why Young Americans Are Rejecting the Social Contract

There have been some major shifts in US politics over the past few years. Once-sacrosanct ideas like free speech are now being dismissed as far-right. A desire for socialism is…

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A Leftist Defence of Monarchy

Among people of my generation and political proclivity, monarchism is generally viewed as a reactionary position. Many of my peers find the Royal Family a deeply embarrassing institution: an expensive,…

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Cute Authoritarianism

Something sinister is going on with cuteness. Over the last five years, we’ve seen the sudden appearance of cute Facial ID Recognition surveillance, cute government health messaging, cute military propaganda,…

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The Colour Purple: Bisexual Representation

In the past few years, a phenomenon I call purple washing has grown uncomfortably common. Even though the term is new, the practice of selectively representing bisexual people and issues…

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8 min

Transcending Race

A Review of Kenan Malik’s Not So Black and White: A History of Race from White Supremacy to Identity Politics (Hurst Publishers, 2023) Race remains one of society’s great delusions. It is modern civilisation’s most enduring superstition.…

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The Depressing New Corporate Metaverse

A Review of Luis Bravo Martins’ and Samantha G. Wolfe’s Metaversed: See Beyond the Hype (December 2022) The term metaverse was coined by Neal Stephenson in his 1992 sci-fi novel…

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CAMBRIDGE, MA, USA - NOVEMBER 2, 2013: Radcliffe Quad undergrad housing at Harvard University in Fall in Cambridge, MA, USA on November 2, 2013.

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Marxist Professors and Brainwashed Students: Charlie Kirk’s “The College Scam”

The irritable conservative college memoir, which argues that tertiary education is ruining the US, is a tired minor genre to which everyone from William F. Buckley Jr. to Dinesh D’Souza…

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Antisemitism at the APA? The Case of Lara Sheehi

Following Donald Moss’ article in the American Psychoanalytic Association’s in-house journal JAPA, claiming that white babies are born racist and are afflicted with “a malignant, parasitic-like condition to which ‘white’…

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A Ukrainian flag flies, in a clear blue sky, above some central London buildings.

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Ukrainian Refugees in Europe

On 17 January 2023, almost 8 million Ukrainians—19% of the total population— were registered as refugees. Although the number of returners has been increasing—totalling around 38,000 per day by mid-January—polls show that…

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A Deal with the Devil: Why the West Should Have Allied with Lukashenko

In launching its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia’s original plan was to seize Kyiv, decapitate the Ukrainian leadership and install a puppet government. That plan would have been impossible without…

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Liberalism and Our Sexual Rights and Freedoms

In an increasingly global knowledge economy, the middle and working classes of developed countries are feeling the pinch. This economic stress has inspired a resurgence of extremist political movements. Once…

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4 min

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Romanticising Shamima Begum

We Brits have entered the New Year faced by a barrage of unsolved problems from the past. Among them is the case of ISIS bride Shamima Begum, who left Britain…

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The Disappointments of Liberalism: Luke Savage’s “The Dead Center”

A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.—Robert Frost Liberals have long prided themselves on their pragmatism and moderation. While radical movements on…

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14 min

Carnivals Come Cheap: Eco-Activists and the Attacks on Art

I am deeply concerned about the climate change issue. I come from a family background of protest, but over the decades I’ve learned which forms of protest are effective and…

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Labels: The Good, the Bad and the Downright Ugly

Few things are as multifaceted or complex as personal identity. Yet, numerous social media posts and newspaper articles seem to suggest that we can somehow capture our unique individuality in…

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The Ethics of Espionage

As the war in Ukraine continues, the pressure on western, Ukrainian and Russian spies to gain intelligence that will give one side a battlefield advantage is intense. At the same…

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Iran’s Feminist Revolution

The current uprising in Iran is a revolution led by women. It centres on the enforcement of hijab, but the protests are about much more than the wearing of a…

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Why Young Americans Are Rejecting the Social Contract

A Leftist Defence of Monarchy

Cute Authoritarianism

The Colour Purple: Bisexual Representation

Transcending Race

The Depressing New Corporate Metaverse

Marxist Professors and Brainwashed Students: Charlie Kirk’s “The College Scam”

Antisemitism at the APA? The Case of Lara Sheehi

Ukrainian Refugees in Europe

A Deal with the Devil: Why the West Should Have Allied with Lukashenko

Liberalism and Our Sexual Rights and Freedoms

Romanticising Shamima Begum

The Disappointments of Liberalism: Luke Savage’s “The Dead Center”

Carnivals Come Cheap: Eco-Activists and the Attacks on Art

Labels: The Good, the Bad and the Downright Ugly

The Ethics of Espionage

Iran’s Feminist Revolution

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