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A new boxset edits out one of John Lennon’s most controversial songs.

Tasmania has all the majesty of other windswept high-latitude places, but it has always been less barren, more hospitable, more generous in its beauty.

Napoleon Chagnon documented a society in which violent men enjoyed greater reproductive and marital success. Some of his academic colleagues never forgave him for it.

Zohran Mamdani wants to institute “collectivist” governance, but NYC already has a collectivist problem—a coordinated veto system that blocks development and progress.

As radicals, we lived in what I call a paradigm of suspicion, one of the malignant ideas that emerge as a result of intellectual in-breeding.

Mishima’s reputation has grown in the new century and today there is more serious interest in his work than ever before.

The Bondi terrorist attack reveals how Australia's reluctance to discuss Islamic antisemitism and ideological motivations undermines cohesion. By Alan Davison.

Removal, expulsion, ethnic cleansing, erasure, even genocide. These are the fruits of the idea that the world can be made right again by undoing history.

Routinely reviled by contemporary critics as a celebration of misogyny, ‘The Taming of the Shrew’ is among Shakespeare’s most misunderstood plays.

The cold allows me to feel alive.

We have ignored, enabled, downplayed, and pandered to vicious antisemitism for too long. The victims of the Bondi massacre paid the price. By Iona Italia.

The massacre at Bondi Beach was shocking—but after years of denial and equivocation about antisemitism, it was inevitable. By Jack Pinczewski

Generative AI, disinformation, and the dangerous temptation of benevolent censorship.

Modern trans activists reframed transsexualism/transgenderism as a political problem rather than a clinical problem.

While the nuclear breakout clock ticks, time may also be expiring on the Ayatollah regime’s grip on the region. The two countdowns are interconnected.

Evidence suggests that today’s common yoga practices were inspired by a popular 1924 Danish gymnastics manual.

Criminal-justice reformers like to say that it is better to be ‘smart on crime’ than ‘tough on crime.’ But sometimes being tough is the smart choice. By ⁠Andrew Bushnell⁠

Easy Rider is an important movie—much more important than a simple measure of its quality would suggest—which is probably why the American Film Institute, among others, continues to rate it so highly.

⁠Jukka Savolainen⁠ 's article "The Murder of Iryna Zarutska — Why did this particular crime cut through the daily background noise of American violence?" on Quillette explores the reasons behind the heightened attention the murder of Iryna Zarutska received in conservative circles and the muted response from mainstream media. Iryna Zarutska, a young Ukrainian refugee, was killed in Charlotte, North Carolina, in a crime caught on CCTV, sparking outrage primarily among conservatives. The article posits that this response is due to three interrelated concerns: media bias, urban disorder, and the victim's characteristics. It argues that mainstream media often report crimes through a racial lens that can distort public perception, amplifying cases where victims are from minority communities while neglecting others. The murder was seen as emblematic of urban disorder in the post-George Floyd era, highlighting issues of leniency and the decline in policing standards. Zarutska's story resonated because she was perceived as an innocent, industrious immigrant whose murder by a repeat offender epitomized a failure of the judicial and social system. The article contrasts media and societal responses to different victim profiles based on ideological lines, highlighting differences in moral priorities between conservatives and progressives. It suggests that the coverage of Zarutska's murder exposes broader cultural divides, with conservatives emphasizing fairness and justice, while progressives focus more on care and liberation, often for marginalized groups.

The Voyage of the Beagle is a literary masterpiece, as well as a scientific one.