By late 2026 the contrast between Rome and Paris is no longer subtle. Giorgia Meloni, who took office in October 2022 as Italy's first female prime minister, has just completed nearly four years in power, the longest continuous government in the postwar Italian Republic. Emmanuel Macron, elected in 2017 on a promise to transform France, is finishin...

One of the most extraordinary books in twentieth-century psychology was Julian Jaynes's The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, published in 1976. Jaynes proposed that human consciousness, at least in the form of introspective, narratively organised self-awareness familiar to modern people, was a relatively recent cultur...

Modern medicine has achieved extraordinary successes in treating infections, managing chronic illness, repairing injuries and extending human life. Yet there is another side to medical practice that receives considerably less public attention: the illness, injury and sometimes death caused by medical treatment itself. The technical term is iatrogen...

He said it one evening, half in jest, while the others were talking about lotteries and sudden fortunes. "Give me all the money in the world," he said, "and I will not become worse. I will only become more useful." Something in the room, or outside it, heard him, and decided to test him. Within three years he was the richest man who had ever lived....

Leo Tolstoy is not usually filed under "comic writers." War and Peace and Anna Karenina are monuments of psychological and historical seriousness; the late moral tracts and the flight to Astapovo feel closer to prophecy than to wit. Yet a distinct and powerful strain of humour runs through his work, especially the later work, and it is inseparable ...

To truly capture the staggering hypocrisy of modern campus life, one must examine the bizarre theater where professorial anti-capitalist posturing dances hand-in-hand with corporate venture capitalism. For decades, the intellectual machinery of the university has pumped out a steady drumbeat of radical rhetoric—teaching generations of undergraduate...

Discussions of racism in contemporary Western societies tend to follow familiar patterns. There are established assumptions about who exercises power, who suffers discrimination, and which social groups are most likely to be responsible for racial hostility. Yet human relationships are considerably more complicated than the ideological categories c...

Russian philosopher Alexander Dugin has offered a striking interpretation of the political turmoil spreading across Europe. In an interview published by Multipolar Press on 20 October 2026, entitled Europe and the Armies of Chaos, Dugin argues that the demonstrations, riots and social tensions afflicting European countries are not merely responses ...

 There is an old story about a farmer who had a serious rat problem. Instead of setting conventional traps or putting out poison, he devised a particularly cunning scheme. He threw a dead pig into a deep, dry well and waited. The smell of rotting meat attracted rats from the surrounding countryside. One by one, the rats jumped into the well to...

You've probably seen the global headlines: "Rainwater is no longer safe to drink anywhere on Earth." Those stories, driven largely by a 2022 Stockholm University/ETH Zurich analysis, compared worldwide rainwater PFAS levels against extremely low U.S. EPA health advisories and concluded the thresholds were exceeded even in Antarctica and on the Tibe...

The Jeffrey Epstein scandal continues to produce disturbing revelations, years after the convicted sex offender's death in a New York jail in 2019. One of the strangest mysteries concerns his apparent fascination with dentistry, the presence of dental equipment at his properties, his efforts to secure dental qualifications for his girlfriend, and t...

 Professor David Betz has warned that Britain is drifting towards civil war. No, says P.K. O'Sullivan: the war has already started, one broken friendship, family row and motorway blockade at a time. Professor David Betz of King's College London has done something few academics ever manage: he has got a good part of the country talking seriousl...

There is a remarkable philosophical irony in the controversy surrounding American philosopher David Skrbina, one of the contemporary world's more uncompromising critics of technological civilisation. Skrbina has spent much of his intellectual career arguing that modern technology is not simply a neutral collection of instruments under human control...

Here is a shocker from the UK showing the level of absurdity which the human rights ideology has reached and the threat it poses to ordinary people. Modernity.news reports: "An Iraqi national who joined Al Qaeda as a teenager, served as a security guard at ISIS mass executions and stonings, and was linked to the cell that beheaded British engineer ...

In 2021, David Sabatini was a star. The molecular biologist, long associated with the Whitehead Institute and MIT, had helped map the mTOR pathway, central to how cells regulate growth, metabolism, and cancer. His lab was large, well-funded, and influential. Within scientific circles he was sometimes discussed as a potential Nobel contender. Then a...

 Australia has been confronted by an appalling act of violence against a federal parliamentarian. Helen Haines, the independent member for Indi, is fighting for her life after being struck by a four-wheel-drive vehicle outside her electorate office in Wangaratta, Victoria, on Monday afternoon, 19 October. The 65-year-old parliamentarian suffer...

The transatlantic slave trade occupies a prominent place in modern historical consciousness. Its cruelties are taught in schools, examined in universities, commemorated in museums and invoked in contemporary political debates about racism, colonialism and historical responsibility. Yet another enormous system of human enslavement, extending across ...

In mid-October 2026, France experienced some of its most intense urban violence in years. Amid the coverage, a specific claim circulated widely online: that rioters and looters in Paris, Marseille, and Lyon had been armed with AK-47s and Scorpion submachine guns. The assertion originated with Lara Tchekov, a journalist at Le Journal du Dimanche (JD...

 There was once a fundamental limitation upon the power of governments, corporations and other institutions seeking to control human behaviour. They could observe what people did, listen to what they said, intercept their communications and attempt to influence their beliefs, but they could not directly inspect the private contents of the huma...

The war involving Iran, Israel and the United States has entered a particularly dangerous phase, one in which the destruction of critical infrastructure could have consequences extending far beyond the Middle East. One of the most pessimistic assessments comes from Professor Seyed Mohammad Marandi, an Iranian-American academic at the University of ...