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Pride and Prejudice Sep 14, 2025

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The self-esteem movements that once deranged America’s school curricula have since deranged the realm of identity activism.

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Gaza and the Collapse of Truth-Seeking Sep 09, 2025

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The Gaza aid-site controversy and a crisis of journalism by Gary Geipel.

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Thomas Sowell: Tragic Optimist Sep 09, 2025

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In his 2000 memoir A Personal Odyssey, Sowell recounts a parable that was read to him as a young boy and which he never forgot.

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Falling Fertility: A Crisis We Refuse to Face Sep 07, 2025

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Fertility decline is not merely a demographic curiosity—it is a structural challenge with civilisational implications. So why are people so reluctant to take it seriously?

By Andrew Glover

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In Defence of Absolute Truth Sep 04, 2025

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By rejecting any universally applicable standards of reason, it destroys the possibility of true conversation, of learning from and compromising with each other.

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Mahmood Mamdani Wants to Dismantle America Sep 02, 2025

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Zohran Mamdani’s father Mahmood is a postnationalist who advocates the dissolution of all nation states, which he views as intrinsically violent and unjust.

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Fragments Against the Ruins Sep 02, 2025

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In his deliberately archaic new rendition of Homer’s epic, Jeffrey Duban takes a defiant stand against the modernisation of classical literature in defence of a disappearing tradition.

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‘Shameless Beyond the Curse of Shamelessness’ Sep 02, 2025

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In a new book, Joan Smith critically examines the historical mistreatment of Ancient Rome’s leading women—including Emperor Augustus’ daughter Julia, who was denounced as a nymphomaniac and cast into exile.

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Naive Protest and Calculated Terror Aug 29, 2025

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The Australian security services have confirmed that Iran orchestrated antisemitic attacks in Sydney and Melbourne. This is not the first time leftist causes have been hijacked by Islamists. It is time we confronted this danger.

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Twilight of the Satyrs Aug 27, 2025

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Charlotte Allen examines how Philip Roth biographer Blake Bailey's sexual misconduct allegations led to both men being cancelled and explores the broader cultural shift from the sexual liberation of the 1960s to #MeToo's scrutiny of male literary figures and their treatment of women.

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