This might be the most important piece you will read today, or maybe this week, from my favourite urbanist and demographer Joel Kotkin: Oligarchal socialism allows for the current, ever-growing …
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We get to rate websites (well, pretty much everything), it’s only to be expected that they rate us back: Facebook is rating users based on how “trustworthy” it thinks they …
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A little coastal town in Victoria manages to escape with all its residents and guests unharmed: A festival in a small coastal town in Victoria sparked rumours that a bizarre …
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It’s a fact little remarked upon that in 1976 one current and one future leader of their nation’s top intelligence agency both voted communist: KGB’s Yuri Andropov in the Soviet Politburo …
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One of the most delightful recent political developments to watch is radicals and progressives waking up with a rude start to the fact that the cultural rules they have created …
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Won’t somebody please think of the Constitutional children? By which I mean the Amendments, and especially the 1st one. Free speech is under attack, both in theory and in practice. …
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In the United States you have the right to bear arms; in China you don’t have the right to bear resemblance to its President: For only the second time this year, …
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Or a $19.97 long sleeve. Yesterday, a journalism website Poynter brought to everyone’s attention that a gift shop at Newseum (“the interactive news museum in Washington, D.C.”) is selling Donald Trump …
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With Yassmin Abdel-Maghied currently overseas, someone has to step in stir the ANZAC pot: Why do people in the armed forces use the word 'serve' to describe their work despite …
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As I have written before, in our developed Western liberal democracies it’s not the government and its instrumentalities that account for the bulk of efforts to restrict free speech and …
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