That’s probably one of the most amazing charts about the US ever. How did it happen?

On Substack, Roger Simon & Sheryl Longin say my book The Primate Myth is "fascinating...presents a compelling case for the positive, collegial aspects of human nature. It’s reassuring and worth reading in these circumstances. Not all humanity is a horror." amazon.com/Primate-Myth-L…

My latest Substack article looks at the ideas and career of radical animal rights advocate and ethicist Peter Singer. Princeton University Peter Singer #animalrights open.substack.com/pub/jonathanle…

My take on Ron Chernow's hefty new bio of #MarkTwain. It's in the new Modern Age Magazine, Daniel McCarthy's terrific review of politics and culture. Short Version: The book is much too long, but impressive nonetheless: modernagejournal.com/the-colossal-m…

Delighted to see this article is now up. The Spectator World Adapted from what one critic termed my "revelatory" new book The Primate Myth, it looks at the principal cause of wars: our ready obedience to psychopathic leaders. To buy a copy of the book, go to: amazon.com/Primate-Myth-L…

My latest #Substack article points to two magazine articles I wrote, one for The Spectator World and one for Modern Age Magazine. The first article is about why wars start. The reasons aren't those we've been told. jonathanleaf.substack.com/publish/posts/…

Thanks to Abbie Rosenthal for this lovely column about my new book The Primate Myth and its importance in terms of understanding human sexuality: dearabbie-nonadvice.com/2025/11/04/her…

I love this so much.

My latest Substack is about the new Broadway show "Liberation." Whether or not you have seen it, I recommend that you read this as it addresses some very important issues about what feminism is. And there's no paywall. open.substack.com/pub/jonathanle…

Playwright Jonathan Leaf and filmmaker Noah Millman contribute reviews of Chernow’s Mark Twain biography and recent movies that return the cinema to humanism.

Matt Taibbi on his disgust at Mehdi Hassan, Jamal Bowman, and Hasan Piker doing USSR nostalgia at Mamdani’s victory party: ‘I could fill a whole book with stories of horrible things I heard and saw from eyewitnesses to the Soviet history. And to see people laughing about that

It's disconcerting how consistently great it is. Latest issue of The New Criterion is packed with brilliant articles, led by Kyle Smith on theater, andrew roberts on the threat posed by China, and James Panero on a new show of Christian art at the The Frick Collection.

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