Claire Lehmann comments on Victoria's new anti-vilification laws.

RT @IonaItalia: "There is nothing wrong per se with a clearly told, tightly plotted propaganda movie. but “clearly told” and “tightly plo….

Brady Corbet’s panoramic epic, ‘The Brutalist,’ may be technically brilliant, but it is a cheat and a fraud, writes @MeanCharlotte.

The universal revolutionary idea—upheld by Robespierre, Lenin, Hitler, and now Mangione—is that the lives of “ordinary” people are worth less than those of “extraordinary” people.

On this day in 1922, Sylvia Beach, an American bookseller in Paris and founder of Shakespeare and Company, published James Joyce’s Ulysses.

Marco Visscher explains the use of breeder reactors in nuclear waste management.

Quillette podcast host @jonkay speaks with Yale English professor-turned-essayist @WDeresiewicz, who argues that Americans—many Democrats included—are fed up with campus-style progressive radicalism.

How bad was the radiation from Three Mile Island and Fukushima? Marco Visscher puts it in context. ⁠

RT @IonaItalia: In an open society, "citizens’ social roles aren’t determined for them—they must carve out a place in society and find thei….

RT @clairlemon: I narrated a video on the explosion of antisemitic criminality in Australia for @Quillette .

Evolutionary Psychology in the Humanities: Shakespeare’s Othello | @HPluckrose .

RT @clairlemon: While many people are going to now pretend like they never supported the faddish ideas popularised over the past decade, it….

RT @jonkay: BUFA, the faculty union at @BrockUniversity, just voted on a BDS motion targeting Israel.It failed decisively, despite appeals….

.@clairlemon examines Australia’s leadership vacuum in the wake of a series of anti-semitic attacks.

Too many artists are in thrall to the belief that objectivity is overrated.

Adolf Hitler was once a failed artist on the streets of Vienna. On this day in 1933, he became Chancellor of Germany and began the destruction of Germany’s democratic Weimar Republic and the creation of Nazi Germany.

What Karl Popper’s classic can teach us about the threats facing democracies today. By @mattjj89.

On this day in 2009, Barack Obama signed his first bill as US President.

What remains of the ICRC’s ostensible commitment to “neutrality, impartiality and independence” has been destroyed by the Gaza war, writes @GeraldNGOM.