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January 2025

The Unexpected Subtleties Of A Nazi Salute
On July 29th, 2024, at a dance and yoga workshop in Southport, England, a 17-year-old named Axel Rudakubana murdered three little girls. They were six…
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How BLM-Era Antiracism Ate Itself
I don’t remember the moment I realised that the BLM-era antiracism movement was done for. Maybe it was when I watched Ibram X Kendi in front of a crowd…
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The Predictable Reason Billionaires Started Caring About Free Speech
Picture yourself in an algebra class.The air is thick with the scent of wood lacquer and boredom, the clock ticks slowly towards freedom, and the…
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The Quiet Death Of Antiracism
At the beginning of last year, in a piece for The Atlantic, Nellie Bowles described the mood at a four-day antiracist cult…excuse me, Zoom seminar she…
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Trans Women Are Not Women. And That's Okay.
Jan 13th, 2024. India Willoughby, a reality TV-grade celebrity and trans woman, writes a (now deleted) tweet about kidnapping three women: Scottish MP…
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Luigi Mangione And The Renaissance Of Class Warfare
January 21st, 1793. After years of soaring living costs, failed harvests, and ongoing political turmoil, millions of members of France's working class…
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December 2024

The Problematic Dream Of A Black Israel
In her review of Ta-Nehisi Coates' latest book, The Message, Helen Andrews offered a controversial explanation for Coates’ objections to the…
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Daniel Penny And The Uncomfortable Reality Of “Stepping Up”
On March 13th, 1964, in the early hours of the morning, a serial killer named Winston Moseley attacked a woman by the name of Kitty Genovese, stabbing…
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Who’s Keeping Men In The Basement Addicted To Porn?
I’m not sure how, but I’ve made something of a career for myself by pointing out utterly banal, not-remotely controversial facts:
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Why White American Men Chose The Bear
In mid-2024, for a couple of weeks, the biggest question on social media was whether women were better off alone in the woods with a randomly selected…
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