All of Europe is suffering as a result of the energy crisis, but for the continent’s largest economy, this is more than just an economic crisis — …Did America cause Europe’s energy war?
Russia realists are the new lockdown sceptics
The EU is sleepwalking into anarchy — UnHerd
All eyes may be on the Italian election results this morning, but Europe’s got much bigger problems on its hands than the prospect of a Right-wing government. Winter is coming, and the catastrophic consequences of Europe’s self-imposed energy crisis are already being felt across the continent. As politicians continue to devise unrealistic plans for energy… The …
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Gen Z’s worship of the Unabomber
“The industrial revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.” Writing those words as the introduction to his 1995 anti-… Gen Z’s worship of the Unabomber His idea is more mainstream amongst his contemporaries that they care to admit, as my outline of American environmentalism in Should My Students Be Here? …
Who can rule Britain now?
I never imagined I’d feel profound grief at the passing of a public figure. At those points in my life where someone close to me has died, the hours …Who can rule Britain now?
Joe Biden Finds Out the Police are Eternal
It was inevitable: Biden explained how his plan is based on one specific tenet: giving law enforcement the resources and funds necessary to engage safely in public policing. He's found out what his Chinese counterparts could have told him a long time ago: “All police forces get buffeted from time to time, but they know one thing: …
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RIP Mikhail Gorbachev
The former General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union is gone: Alongside Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, Gorbachev was a key protagonist in a global drama that many thought impossible and, for those who lived through it, seemed almost surreal. Under Gorbachev, the Berlin Wall crumbled, thousands of political prisoners were released …
The Trigger Warning for a Criminal Justice Course
Got this in my university email inbox, from a professor in the criminal justice program, it's the trigger warning he puts in his (maybe her) syllabus: As with most criminal justice-related courses, the subject matter contained within the class is often shocking and controversial. While I understand that each individual is affected differently by topics …
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Britain’s elites have lost control
Britain may be recovering from a heatwave, but its politicians are already fearful that winter is coming. Only now, more than 170 days since the war …Britain’s elites have lost control
Should My Students Be Here?
Last year, before the Fall semester started, I posted Teaching Secular Blasphemy, where I attacked the whole "perfect life" concept that pervades our culture, inflates our expectations and makes us depressed and angry when they don't work out. I didn't attack this idea because of their psychological or sociological damage (which are evident) but because …
Positive Infinity 