After spending the past seven days listening to Charlie Kirk speak and learning who he really was, I think he might be the most misunderstood person I’ve ever encountered. That only deepens the devastation, because he died because of lies. People believed he was full of hate

This is what you’re debating with on social media:

no idea why this story isn't constant front page news, but: florida oranges have been devastated to the point of the industry's eradication. if this happens to one of our staple crops a lot of people in the world will probably starve. food for thought!

In California, only 28% of Black students can read at a 'basic' level or above on the fourth-grade NAEP. In Mississippi, it's 52%. It's inexcusable, and it's a policy choice. New from me in the Argument:

I consider myself a “left wing curious” person. I’ve mostly lived in blue areas. Several of my close friends and family are on the left. I am a musician and was into the art scene when I was younger. I’m a scientist and I get along well with educated lefties. I think a lot of

Antifa wants an insurrection leading to a legitimacy collapse and a communist/left-anarchist revolution. But there's a very basic question: where's it going to find the troops, and how's it going to train them? In one of my previous analysis posts I identified three overlapping

Glad I saw this on the big screen. youtu.be/hnoOuOqonE8?si…

The so-called “Peasant Emperors” was more branding than reality. They fit more into the counter-elite model. youtu.be/qy4wPWD1ung?si…

📚Fantasy fiction often gets a bad rap in literary world, yet it's on the rise. What accounts for this? Check out Telegraph's Top 30 reads⤵️ & come to #BattleFest to debate w/ Lara Brown JJ Charlesworth Helen Dale (not on your team, but always fair) & Blair Milo Tickets still avail➡️tinyurl.com/w4kzkpr2

What we've learned in the last 3 weeks: The American Left is willing to lie. Not just occasionally, not just frequently. But about anything, and everything, all the time, in any way that helps them gain and protect their power. We've learned that the Left's willingness to

Why is socialism so popular? A few reasons. One straightforward one is ignorance—we’re just not really taught that much about it. I sometimes half-jokingly say, and it’s a bit of hyperbole, that in American high schools you get 155 hours on Hitler, three minutes on Stalin, zero

Friend of the show Lorenzo Warby (LorenzoFromOz) joined me once again to talk about how the rise of the 'unaccountable class' has ruined everything. We talk bad elites. Expect to hear about institutional capture, ideological projects, suppression of dissent, bureaucratic

The Texas Supreme Court has stripped the ABA of its role as accreditor of law schools for purposes of bar admission in the state. txcourts.gov/media/1461357/…

A study from 1988 found that 54% of sex killers investigated were transvestites. Other studies have found a transvestism rate of 40% among sexually sadistic murderers, a “high frequency of…gender dysphoria in sexual homicide perpetrators,” and a link between gender dysphoria

I'm about to do something I think I've never done before, which is assert every bit of whatever authority I have as the person who discovered and wrote down the rules of open source. After ten years of drama and idiocy, lots of people other than me are now willing to say in

Melbourne alleyway by night, no filter.

I've noticed a common phenomenon. Let's call it the boomerang effect. Lament the rise of an opinion or policy without noticing how your preferred policies helped cause it. Vaccination rates down - because you wrecked the reputation of vaccines during the pandemic by over

Keir Starmer is now the most unpopular Prime Minister on record. Via Ipsos 11th - 17th September

Urban warfare is inherently nasty as a form of warfare. It is not genocide. It is a massive demeaning of the reality of genocide to misapply the word to the Gazan war. youtu.be/BPNBjiECjkk?si…

Researchers examined the political breakdown of specific departments at the top 40 universities. 60% of history and journalism departments did not have any Republican professors. 39% of all departments did not have any Republican professors. Democrats outnumbered Republicans