For decades intelligent design has been treated less as an argument to be answered than as an embarrassment to be removed from polite intellectual company. Mention design in biology and the ritual responses arrive almost automatically: Darwin, evolution, creationism, God of the gaps, case closed. The confidence of the dismissal is remarkable becaus...
Humanity has been waiting for the end of the world for a remarkably long time. The date changes. The mechanism changes. The prophet changes. The world stubbornly remains. Comets have been coming to get us. Planets have been about to collide with us. Nuclear war has repeatedly been days away. Computers were going to stop civilisation at midnight on ...
Something rather extraordinary has happened in Australian politics. Immigration reduction, until recently treated across much of the political establishment as somewhere between economically illiterate and morally suspect, has suddenly become respectable. What caused this intellectual revelation was not a newly discovered economic paper, Treasury a...
Hopelessness in modern Britain is not a mood. It is an audit. People are not depressed because they read too much news. They are depressed because the old bargain is dead and everyone can still recite the script. Work. Save. Obey. Pay in. The state will keep the streets usable, the hospital reachable, the pension yours, and the future open to your ...
Donald Trump told Glenn Beck he would "absolutely prohibit the Sharia law thing." One country. One system. Where it appears, "take it out." He pointed at London and Paris and called what he saw there "almost like a second way of life." That sentence is not exotic. The American settlement is already supposed to be this: no religious code becomes the...
The original question was never really about bears. "Would you rather be alone in a forest with a man or a bear?" was a rhetorical device dressed up as a thought experiment. Its purpose was not to calculate comparative risk but to announce a conclusion: men are so dangerous that an unpredictable wild predator is preferable to an unknown male human ...
The headline is doing what headlines are for. Labor, we are told, is about to unveil an immigration "crackdown," aimed at international students, visitor visas, and the onshore applications that turn a temporary stay into a long argument with the department. The Australian puts the motive in the open: the package is being finished amid pressure fro...
Yes. Not always, not overnight, and not in the cartoon sense that a single election turns a functioning country into a crater. But history is not subtle on the main point. Leaders can impoverish a rich nation, hollow out its institutions, teach its people to live by slogans instead of competence, and leave a wreck that later generations spend...
There is something almost anachronistic about James Lawley's project. Through his Gent Z videos and his Gentlemen's Collective, Lawley is attempting to resurrect an idea that much of modern culture has either forgotten or reduced to parody: the gentleman. Not simply the man who owns an expensive suit, knows which fork to use at dinner and can disti...
In a large prospective study of middle-aged and older Chinese adults living in Singapore, regular consumption of milk and other dairy foods emerged as modestly but consistently linked to lower risks of two major chronic conditions: type 2 diabetes and hypertension. The findings come from the Singapore Chinese Health Study, a long-running cohort tha...
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...
