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Stalin, Putin and the Falsification of History

Patriotism corrupts history.—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1817) Long before the latest iteration of cancel culture, there was a punishment known as damnatio memoriae (the condemnation of a person’s memory). First…

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Hindu-Muslim Tensions in the UK

The violence that unfolded in Leicester in the late summer of 2022 was undoubtedly tragic, especially for the local South Asian communities who have shared the city for decades.

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Treacherous Allies: Why Anti-Wokes Should Reject the Religious Right

Since they are united in their opposition to wokeness, secular liberals and the US religious right often find themselves on the same side of the current culture war. While it…

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It’s Class, Not Race

It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so. — Mark Twain In 2018, Raj Chetty and his…

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Christopher Hitchens, the Conservative Marxist

How Hitchens Can Save the Left: Rediscovering Fearless Liberalism in an Age of Counter-Enlightenment by Matt Johnson (2023). A review. There has been a gaping void in our political and…

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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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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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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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Stalin, Putin and the Falsification of History

Hindu-Muslim Tensions in the UK

Treacherous Allies: Why Anti-Wokes Should Reject the Religious Right

It’s Class, Not Race

Christopher Hitchens, the Conservative Marxist

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

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