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View More NewsUnder a draft Crown Prosecution Service document in England and Wales, male circumcision could be treated as a possible form of child abuse, placing it in the same category as other “harmful practices” including exorcisms. The proposal has alarmed Jewish and Muslim leaders who say circumcision is an important and generally safe religious tradition. The post Brickbat: Won't Make the Cut appeared first on Reason.com. Read the full article here
It’s a scenario that students of history will find familiar. Greenland’s strategic importance becomes front-page news. Statesmen demand access to the island’s resources. Arcane principles of international law are rediscovered and weaponised. Rancour grows over the question of who will control the world’s biggest island, threatening to open a rift between otherwise friendly powers.This is spring 1940. While the Second World War rages in Europe, Canada, and the (still officially neutral) United States became embroiled in a diplomatic stand-off in the North Atlantic. More than eight decades later, the echoes of their dispute resonate in a world that leaders from…
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It has now been a month since Australia’s under‑16 social media ban—officially known as the Online Safety Amendment (Social Media Minimum Age) Act 2024—came into effect.I originally wrote this piece before the ban commenced on 10 December 2025, setting out my predictions for how it would play out. But after three weeks in Europe, I’m now back in Australia witnessing it firsthand. While I was broadly correct about the trade-offs that a blanket ban would involve, what I didn’t anticipate is how those trade-offs would manifest in the first month.The law puts the onus on social media companies to ensure…
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from the wut? dept The travesty that is RFK Jr. in charge of American health and what he’s done to the CDC’s ACIP committee…
Yesterday, my Civitas Outlook column discussed Anti-Semitism and Anti-Christian Zionism on the right. The piece led off with Kevin Roberts’s infamous defense of Tucker Carlson, but…