No sexy Halloween Handmaid for you
You all know of course by now that you can’t appropriate other cultures’ artefacts, but did you know you also can’t appropriate wokeness? It turns out maybe oppression isn’t sexy …
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Congratulations Asians, you’re now honorary Caucasians!
The other day, in the context of the dummy spit that Serena Williams has thrown while losing to a half-Japanese, half-Haitian Naomi Osaka, I joked on Facebook that in the …
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Public sector workers’ paradise
How many people are employed in Australia by all three levels of government? If you have answered “too many”, you are correct. If you have answered “almost 2 million”, you’re …
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Christian Devil’s Music
A much maligned music genre has a long history and an interesting present: In 1972, when Larry Norman was still feeling optimistic about his musical career, he set out on …
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Welcome to Fort Trump?
The dream of an US military base in Poland seems one step closer to reality: President Donald Trump said the U.S. is considering a permanent military presence in Poland, something the Eastern European …
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Who’s got the best life?
Over the weekend I come across an article published by the Foundation for Economic Education two years ago, titled “Most of Europe Is a Lot Poorer than Most of the United …
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We have to stop fascism say people supporting China
A lack of self-awareness is a terrible thing to suffer from, or more precisely make other people suffer. It’s even worse when it’s attached to otherwise intelligent and successful people, …
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When Great is Not Good Enough
Things seem to be going quite well across the United States. The economy is growing consistently at a very healthy rate (eat your heart out, Europe), unemployment keeps falling – …
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Not bigger than Texas
Congratulations, the United States, for the first time in 1973 the world’s biggest oil producer: The feat demonstrates how the US shale oil boom has reshaped the global energy landscape. American oil …
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Cartoons in black and white
The last time a cartoon created controversy people died. Hopefully this time all there is to it is a lot of hot air:* America has responded with shock and disgust …
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Are there Reds in your bed?
Oh, not to be young and Russian in Washington DC, “Politico” reports: Nothing prepared the young Russians of Washington for the wintry blast of social isolation and suspicion that followed …
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Papadopoulos fingers Donwer
The “Russiagate” has its genesis in a strange meeting in London in May 2016 between the then junior policy adviser on Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, George Papadopoulos, and Australia’s former …
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The Weakest Generation
Depression, mental illness, chronic stress and anxiety, and self-harm are all serious and often tragic and devastating problems for the sufferers and those around them. Sadly, and counter-intuitively, they seem …
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Derangement continues
It’s hard not to despair at the state of politics at the moment. Perhaps it has always been this cringeworthy and terrible, but now we have the 24-hour news cycle, …
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Obama doesn’t heart Abbott
George W Bush was lucky – during his two terms in the White House he got to deal with one – and good one – Australian Prime Minister, John Howard. …
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“America is moving toward an oligarchical socialism”
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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Graduating from the jihad school
A few days ago, the authorities have botched the child neglect case against three out of five adults in the New Mexico compound where eleven children were allegedly being trained …
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Lest We Remember
I like free speech and free market because they allow us to see who the idiots are and to spend our money elsewhere. Wisconsin parents – avoid Ripon College for …
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Victimhood Olympics in space
In space no one can hear you scream, but in Ohio school administrators can certainly hear parents scream about their children being given this exercise: Administrators with Cuyahoga Falls Schools …
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One small step for man, one step too far for Hollywood
There are still some nutters (mostly harmless) out there who think that the moon landing in 1969 was faked by NASA in collaboration with Hollywood, directed by Francis Ford Coppola. …
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