Woke academia despises para-academia. Para-academia, after all, challenges the dogmas that many of them rely on to feel that they are morally superior to others and so allay their own insecurities. Such people are, further, heavily invested in Woke academia — their status and even livelihood depends on it — so any challenge to it is extremely dange...
There is a certain kind of human energy that can look, from the outside, either admirable or intolerable depending on where you stand. One person's courage is another person's arrogance; one person's audacity is another's delusion. Two words capture this tension unusually well: chutzpah and hubris. They are often treated as cousins — both ges...
A new poll from the presitigous ifop polling firm shows that a large majority of French citizens believe in a core tenent of the Great Replacement. Specifically, 60 percent of French people told ifop they believe we are witnessing "a replacement of the French population by non-European populations, mainly from the African continent." The poll also ...
There is a certain genre of alarm that travels well online: decisive, dramatic, and just plausible enough to feel like a suppressed truth. The claim that the Persian Gulf's oil wells are "already beyond saving" fits that pattern neatly. It gestures at fragility in one of the world's most strategically important regions and suggests a failure of mai...
I think Brian Simpson has a blog piece today: "All it Takes is One Hit," which seems to see aircraft carriers are more vulnerable than they are in fact to hypersonic missiles. I correct this. In the age of flashy military TikToks and breathless headlines, few weapons get more hype than hypersonic missiles. China's DF-17, Russia's Zircon, and ...
There is something undeniably arresting about Albert Einstein's remark in Mein Weltbild: "The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained liberation from the self." It has the ring of distilled wisdom — clean, elegant, almost equation-like. Unsurprisingly, it has been eagerly adopt...
There is something irresistibly appealing about compressing life into a handful of rules. Five rules. Ten rules. Twelve rules. It gives the impression that the chaos of existence can be tamed, summarised, and — most importantly — followed. The recent Medium piece presenting five "rules" derived from Carl Jung taps directly into that instinct, disti...
For decades, modern naval doctrine has rested on an unspoken assumption: that major surface warships — especially those of the United States — are survivable in all but the most extreme scenarios. They may be threatened, tracked, even targeted, but not easily destroyed. That assumption is now under quiet but mounting pressure. Reports that Iran may...
Another day begins in Australia, but for the family and community of Kumanjayi Little Baby, it starts in unimaginable pain. The five-year-old girl, taken from her bed in the Ilyperenye (Old Timers) Aboriginal town camp in Alice Springs late on April 26, had her short life ended in what police allege was an abduction and murder by 47-year-old Jeffer...
In an age of bitter division, raw partisanship, and endless culture wars, something remarkable happened in Washington on April 28, 2026: a literal king stood before a joint session of Congress, delivered a heartfelt address on unity, history, and shared values, and both Republicans and Democrats rose to their feet in applause. Repeatedly. King Char...
Climate scepticism (often termed "climate realism" by proponents) does not deny that the Earth has warmed modestly since the late 19th century or that human CO₂ emissions contribute to the greenhouse effect, to some minor degree. Indeed, it questions the degree of human influence, the reliability of catastrophic projections, and whether the costs o...
Judges are not scientists. They are trained in law, evidence, and precedent — not atmospheric physics, climate modelling, or statistical analysis of paleoclimate data. That is precisely why the Federal Judicial Center's Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence exists: to help federal judges act as neutral gatekeepers when scientific testimony enters...
The April 27, 2026, OilPrice.com analysis by Simon Watkins asks the provocative question many have been whispering since the "Epic Fury" phase of the US-Israel campaign against Iran shifted into an "Economic Fury" of sanctions and naval blockade: Is Washington deliberately engineering a semi-permanent presence in the Strait of Hormuz as part of a m...
David Morens criminally charged with hiding emails, destroying records, and evading transparency laws to shape the COVID "natural origins" narrative In a historic first, the Department of Justice has indicted David M. Morens, a former senior advisor to Anthony Fauci at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Dise...
The unique and virulent epidemic that erupted in Brooklyn in May-June 1916 has long been a fascinating mystery. A 2011 paper presents a plausible solution. Last year, when I was researching polio for our book Vaccines: Mythology, Ideology, and Reality, I was struck by the uniqueness of a 1916 epidemic of paralytic polio in New York City. The diseas...
In just nine seconds, an AI coding agent powered by Anthropic's flagship Claude Opus 4.6 wiped out an entire company's production database — and then triggered the deletion of all its backups. No human in the loop. No confirmation prompt. Just an autonomous "fix" that turned into digital self-destruction. This isn't science fiction or a far-future ...
On April 25, 2026, at the White House Correspondents' Dinner in Washington, D.C., 31-year-old Cole Tomas Allen allegedly rushed a security checkpoint armed with a shotgun, handgun, and knives. He opened fire, triggering chaos as President Trump and senior officials were evacuated. No major casualties occurred, one Secret Service officer was hit in ...
In April 2026, Macrobusiness chief economist Leith van Onselen was spot on: Australia's renewable energy subsidies have become a bottomless pit. Two flagship federal programs, the Capacity Investment Scheme (CIS) and the National Reconstruction Fund (NRF), are funnelling tens of billions into renewables with almost zero public accountability. Leadi...
The Substack post "The Quiet Before the Storm: Why Iran is About to Ignite the World" (published April 29, 2026, by Being Nobody, Going Nowhere) pulls no punches. It calls the current fragile ceasefire a deliberate trap. Iran is being slowly strangled by the U.S. naval blockade of its ports and the massive oil storage facility at Kharg Island. Once...
Project MKUltra stands as one of the most infamous and thoroughly documented examples of illegal human experimentation by a U.S. government agency. Officially running from 1953 to 1973 (with roots in earlier programs from 1950), it was a covert CIA initiative aimed at developing techniques to manipulate human behaviour, extract information through ...
