Australia and Britain are on opposite sides of the globe. But mind annihilates distance and the mind of a leading Irish ethicist has recently pondered events in these two widely separated countries. Yes, the Trotskyist libertarian Brendan O’Neill has raised two very interesting questions about two pairs of energetic Muslims, one pair in Australia, the […]
Female victims. They’re very important to feminists, aren’t they? Of course they are. So let’s consider some male and female victims in 21st-century Britain. First, two men murdered with relatively little suffering by a man, who did not target them as males. Second, seventeen women and girls murdered with great suffering by another man, who […]
I’m grateful to David Baddiel. Now there are five words I never thought I’d write. Baddiel is a repulsive and unfunny Jewish comedian who has, I’d say, relied on ethnic nepotism and astute self-promotion to earn a wholly undeserved prominence in the British media. I’ve never laughed at any of his so-called comedy. No, I’ve […]
“Preach Equality, Practise Hierarchy.” That’s one of the core principles of modern leftism. In leftist theory, Blacks are equal to Whites and women are equal to men. In leftist practice, Blacks are privileged over Whites and women are privileged over men. And so, in a leftist system, you get a hierarchy of racial and sexual […]
A specter is haunting America — the specter of a vanished predator.[1] More precisely, it’s haunting the prairies west of the Mississippi, the home of a remarkable antelope called the pronghorn, Antilocapra americana. What’s remarkable about the pronghorn is that it runs far faster than it needs to. No living predator in America gets close […]
Stars and butterflies — no good life is complete without them. But alas, modernity has been waging war on them both for many decades. Light pollution has bleached and blasted the night-sky, depriving countless millions of the beauty and astrobrontic awe that should have been their birthright.[1] At the same time, butterflies have been blasted […]
