If you had told a liberal activist in 1968 that in the year 2026 there would be crowds of women in pink standing outside a courthouse in support of a mother who confessed to killing her three children, that activist would have assumed you were describing some grotesque Right-wing satire, the kind of thing that gets printed in a fringe pamphlet to d...
Who invented DIOS? I am pleased to inform you that it was Dan Quayle: "From the perspective of many Japanese, the ethnic diversity of our culture is a weakness compared to their homogeneous society. I begged to differ with my host. I explained that our diversity is our strength and I explained that the immigrants who come to our shores have m...
They were told that anger is a virtue, and a large slice of the American professional class believed it. Steve McCann's question in American Thinker (link below), is not subtle, and it does not need to be. Why are so many liberal white women so publicly furious when, by the metrics the last half-century used to measure female progress, they h...
Janet Levy's essay in American Thinker names the new creed anti-speciesism: the conviction that preferring humans to other animals is a prejudice of the same family as racism or sexism, and that policy should be rewritten until the preference disappears. Richard Ryder coined the insult. Peter Singer made it fashionable. The move is simple and, once...
There are some aircraft whose appearance in the sky attracts rather more attention than a Qantas flight arriving five minutes early. Five American E-6B Mercury aircraft, popularly known as "doomsday planes," were reportedly airborne over the United States at the same time this week, just as CIA Director John Ratcliffe made an unusual and initially ...
The yearning is older than the petition. What is new is the attempt to turn it into a fiscal and legal corridor. When Ghana's president, John Dramani Mahama, told Jamaica's parliament this month that repatriation is "a right of all persons of African descent," he was not inventing a slogan. He was putting a state seal on a demand that Rastafari com...
Donald Trump killed the Clancy children! There, I have solved the case. Massachusetts can dismiss the jury, send the lawyers home and save the taxpayers a fortune. There is no need to concern ourselves with exercise bands, psychiatric evidence, medication histories, telephone records, internet searches, expert witnesses or such patriarchal re...
Empathy built the West. Unbounded, it is now unmaking it. Gad Saad calls the disease suicidal empathy: a noble capacity that hyperfires toward the wrong targets, in the wrong measure, at the wrong time, until a civilisation begins to prefer the feelings of the outsider, the offender, or the abstract victim over the survival of the people who actual...
The science-fiction nightmare usually arrives with thunder. Machines seize control, armies of robots march through ruined cities, and human beings wake to discover that their bodies have become components in a technological system they no longer control. Reality is rarely so theatrical. If something resembling The Matrix ever comes into existence, ...
There is a wonderfully counterintuitive fact about the outer reaches of our solar system, something worth thinking about on a Saturday. The two Voyager spacecraft, launched in 1977 and built with technology that now belongs in museums, eventually reached a region where scientists measured temperatures of tens of thousands of degrees Kelvin. V...
For more than 30 years, section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 has survived a political argument that never really went away. Coalition governments talked about reforming it, civil libertarians attacked it, racial-discrimination advocates defended it, and successive parliaments ultimately left it standing. Now Pauline Hanson may achieve ...
Commercial aviation has achieved something remarkable. Millions of people routinely climb into machines weighing hundreds of tonnes, accelerate to around 250 kilometres per hour along a strip of concrete and disappear into the sky with scarcely a thought about whether they will arrive. The reason we can treat this extraordinary activity as ordinary...
In January 2021, a little more than a month after the first COVID-19 vaccines received emergency use authorisation, the directors of America's leading public-health agencies exchanged messages about pregnant women. The texts, recovered years later from Anthony Fauci's government-issued phone and released by Senators Ron Johnson and Rand Paul, do no...
The State Department is preparing what officials describe as the largest mass visa revocation in American history: the cancellation of up to 200,000 B-1 and B-2 visas issued between 2016 and 2026 whose holders entered as short-term visitors and then filed for asylum. The move is coordinated with the Department of Homeland Security. It does not, by ...
A recent survey of 1,404 people across 18 Western countries reports that those who call themselves left-handed place themselves, on average, about half a point further left on a ten-point political scale than right-handers. The difference is statistically detectable and, in the sample, larger than the gap between men and women. Headlines followed: ...
One of the great mistakes of modern secularism was the assumption that if people ceased believing in God they would simply become rational individuals, calmly constructing their lives according to evidence and enlightened self-interest. Human beings do not seem to work that way. We are meaning-seeking creatures, and when one source of transcendent ...
For half a century the dominant demographic fear was excess. Paul Ehrlich's 1968 The Population Bomb declared the battle to feed humanity already lost and forecast mass starvation in the 1970s. World population then stood at roughly 3.5 billion; the global total fertility rate hovered near five children per woman. Compulsion, he argued, might be re...
On February 14, 2026, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivered a laudatory speech about Europe and its legacy at the Munich Security Conference. He noted, however, that Europe is weakening. "We don't want our allies to be weak," he said. His remarks initially were well received by the European political leaders and journalists in the room; not f...
Stockpiling tinned food is a sensible idea. A household that can feed itself for a week without shops, power or deliveries is better placed for a flood, a cyber attack on logistics, a prolonged blackout or any of the other disruptions now listed in the UK National Risk Register. The government is accelerating civil-defence planning and urging the p...
Oseltamivir, sold for years as Tamiflu and now widely available as a generic, was approved because it appeared to shorten influenza symptoms by about a day in otherwise healthy outpatients. That modest benefit, established in younger and less severely ill people, became the basis for enormous stockpiles and routine prescribing to the elderly and th...
