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May 23, 2025 • 20min

In Defence of John Money

How did this famed sexologist become reviled at both ends of the culture-war horseshoe?
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May 23, 2025 • 29min

The Women Excluded from Parsi Life

The Zoroastrians of India, are a tiny and rapidly shrinking group. Yet they exclude women who marry out and their offspring from their community.
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May 22, 2025 • 12min

Brave New Marvel

Despite serious flaws, ‘Captain America: Brave New World’ is much better than Marvel’s recent offerings. Perhaps the franchise may have turned the corner.
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May 20, 2025 • 11min

Out with the Old...

Forecasts that Nigel Farage will become UK prime minister now attract expressions of anxious concern not mockery from the liberal commentariat.
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May 19, 2025 • 27min

Is the University Of Austin Betraying Its Founding Principles?

Created as a haven for free thinkers, UATX was the last place where I’d expected to encounter ideological litmus tests. By Ellie Avishai.
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May 19, 2025 • 15min

The Many Faces of ‘The Count of Monte Cristo’

Alexandre Dumas’s novel is by turns an adventure story, a paean to bourgeois values, and a Greek epic. No wonder it continues to fascinate. 
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May 19, 2025 • 12min

'Oikophobia': Our Western Self-Hatred

The simplest way of defining oikophobia is as the opposite extreme of xenophobia.
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May 19, 2025 • 27min

Truth Telling and Colonial History

The colonisation of Australia was neither a "peaceful settlement" nor a bloody conquest. It was a Malthusian swamping: the inevitable and tragic result of contact between hunter gatherers and agriculturalists.
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May 14, 2025 • 30min

Scientology’s War on Psychiatry

What caused L. Ron Hubbard to turn on a discipline he had once accepted?
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May 13, 2025 • 7min

Our Glorious Unhead of State

The idea of an Australian republic is attractive to some, but there's a strong case for a humble head of state.

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