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Keep Calm and Adapt

Matt Shumer’s viral essay about AI is part of a long history of fear produced by technological change.

Sean Welsh 16 Feb 2026 · 9 min read

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The Price of the Epstein Frenzy

Press-led hysteria and institutional cowardice are inflicting needless damage on higher education.

Lawrence M. Krauss 15 Feb 2026 · 10 min read

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Populism’s Self-Defeating Trap

Populist rhetoric is exceptionally effective for pursuing and gaining power, but it provides no program for the complexities of actual governance.

Tomislav Kardum 17 Feb 2026 · 7 min read

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Populism’s Self-Defeating Trap

Populist rhetoric is exceptionally effective for pursuing and gaining power, but it provides no program for the complexities of actual governance.

Tomislav Kardum 17 Feb 2026 · 7 min read

Keep Calm and Adapt

Keep Calm and Adapt

Matt Shumer’s viral essay about AI is part of a long history of fear produced by technological change.

Sean Welsh 16 Feb 2026 · 9 min read

Woman addresses press at microphones outside US Capitol, sign reading “Epstein Files Transparency Act”

The Price of the Epstein Frenzy

Press-led hysteria and institutional cowardice are inflicting needless damage on higher education.

Lawrence M. Krauss 15 Feb 2026 · 10 min read

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They Don’t Believe It Either

Maarten Boudry 19 Oct 2025 · 13 min read

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An Uneasy Peace

Benny Morris 15 Oct 2025 · 15 min read

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The Problem with Alt. Media

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The Melbourne Crimewave

Andrew Bushnell 11 Oct 2025 · 10 min read

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The Genocide Libel

Andrew Fox 9 Oct 2025 · 24 min read

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Podcast #324: Guests of the Nation

Podcast #324: Guests of the Nation

Quillette 12 Feb 2026 · 27 min read

Podcast #323: British Columbia’s Radical Political Landscape

Podcast #323: British Columbia’s Radical Political Landscape

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Podcast #322: The Demise of Private Life

Podcast #322: The Demise of Private Life

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Zoe Booth, Shay Khatiri 20 Jan 2026 · 26 min read

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The Housing Crisis Is Destroying Homeownership—and Undermining Democracy

Wendell Cox, Joel Kotkin 14 Feb 2026 · 11 min read

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The Thornhill and Palmer Affair: When Evolutionary Biology Challenged Rape Orthodoxy

Zoe Booth, Peggy Sastre 5 Feb 2026 · 8 min read

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The Gentle Wildness of Tasmania

Iona Italia 2 Feb 2026 · 13 min read

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The Alaa Abd El-Fattah Case and the Limits of Human Rights Law

Guy Baldwin, Zoe Booth 30 Jan 2026 · 6 min read

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The Moral Collapse of Empire

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England’s Founding Father

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Strange Delight

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American Liberalism and Illiberalism

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Self-Defeating “Sustainability”

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