Debates

By the end of 2026, the United Nations will have selected a new Secretary-General. The incoming UN leader will take…

Last month, I was invited onto Flemish public television to discuss a survey on rising intolerance among young people. Before…

In February 2022, Tyler Cowen made a prediction that sounded premature to many people: wokeism had peaked. At the time,…

Human evolution, particularly of the brain, ended a long time ago—at least that is what many educated people, wary of…

A review of The Death of Trotsky: The True Story of the Plot to Kill Stalin’s Greatest Enemy by Josh…

Fundamentalists rush in where liberals fear to tread.~Michael Sandel British prime minister Keir Starmer doesn’t believe the birthplace of modern…

Adam Wakeling is a historian based in Melbourne. While he has a day job as a lawyer, he is also…

Last July, talk-show host and comic Stephen Colbert used his opening monologue on The Late Show to address the news…

It’s My Party and I’ll Die If I Want To The most consequential weakness of philosopher and journalist Kathleen Stock’s…

Hava Mendelle defies easy categorisation. Openly gay and proudly Jewish, she is a fifteen-year Australian Army veteran, emergency department nurse,…

The popular reputation of Friedrich Hayek (1899-1992) is captured in a famous anecdote about Margaret Thatcher. Before becoming Britain’s Prime…

Henry Nowak should first be remembered as an eighteen-year-old who had moved to Southampton to begin adult life. He was…