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Hamas Should Never Be Decriminalised Apr 17, 2025

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The campaign to remove Hamas from the UK’s list of proscribed organisations is not about defending free speech or political dissent. It is about legitimising jihadist warmongering.

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The Wrongful Exoneration of Adnan Syed Part II: The Legal and Media Circus Apr 17, 2025

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Adnan Syed would never have been released had ‘Serial’ not been made. Advocacy journalism must be treated with caution.

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'The Wrongful Exoneration of Adnan Syed Part I: A Straightforward Murder Case' by Andrew Hammel Apr 17, 2025

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A serious reexamination of this case must begin by setting out the evidence that led the jury to convict.

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Does TED Still Make Sense? Apr 17, 2025

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Last week’s TED Talks in Vancouver featured dozens of brilliant speakers. But the earnest belief that big new ideas can save humanity from itself now feels painfully dated.

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Revisiting ‘Wake in Fright’, A Peculiarly Australian Kind of Hell Apr 16, 2025

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Five decades after its release, Wake in Fright remains a brutally captivating reminder that modernity is just a thin veneer over the darker recesses of the human heart.

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Australia's Population Ponzi Scheme Apr 15, 2025

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The environmental havoc is justified as needed for the economy, but the evidence does not support this claim.

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Marxism: The Idea That Refuses to Die Apr 11, 2025

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Its ability to churn out such plausible sounding explanations for historical and social phenomena is part of Marxism’s core appeal. But its grand theoretical framework simply does not hold up.

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Jihadism Is the Problem Mar 31, 2025

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The media’s obsessive focus on the Israel–Palestine conflict obscures the broader picture of the ubiquity of jihadism in the Middle East, and the crucial role it plays in stoking and perpetuating turmoil and strife.

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The Fugitive Mind Mar 27, 2025

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My best friend had a psychotic break—our criss-crossing journeys through facts and fictions in thirteen chapters.

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How to Tell if You’re Living in a Patriarchy Mar 27, 2025

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Arguments that patriarchy exists in the West today are largely dependent on reinventions of the concept that would be better dispensed with.

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