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May 5, 2025 • 1h 3min

The Fight for Academic Freedom in the UK

How the battle for the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act was fought, won, and nearly lost again.
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May 2, 2025 • 31min

Disuniting Australia

What happens when the values of multiculturalism conflict with homophobic, misogynistic, and deeply anti-democratic strains of Islam?  
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Apr 30, 2025 • 6min

'The Language of Soviet Propaganda' by Izabella Tabarovsky

Progressive anti-Zionism and the poisonous legacy of Cold War hatred.
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Apr 30, 2025 • 15min

Ghosts of Electricity

The magisterial incomprehensibility of Bob Dylan’s ‘Visions of Johanna.’
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Apr 17, 2025 • 12min

Hamas Should Never Be Decriminalised

The campaign to remove Hamas from the UK’s list of proscribed organisations is not about defending free speech or political dissent. It is about legitimising jihadist warmongering.
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Apr 17, 2025 • 1h 35min

The Wrongful Exoneration of Adnan Syed Part II: The Legal and Media Circus

Adnan Syed would never have been released had ‘Serial’ not been made. Advocacy journalism must be treated with caution.
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Apr 17, 2025 • 1h 17min

'The Wrongful Exoneration of Adnan Syed Part I: A Straightforward Murder Case' by Andrew Hammel

A serious reexamination of this case must begin by setting out the evidence that led the jury to convict.
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Apr 17, 2025 • 16min

Does TED Still Make Sense?

Last week’s TED Talks in Vancouver featured dozens of brilliant speakers. But the earnest belief that big new ideas can save humanity from itself now feels painfully dated.
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Apr 16, 2025 • 26min

Revisiting ‘Wake in Fright’, A Peculiarly Australian Kind of Hell

Five decades after its release, Wake in Fright remains a brutally captivating reminder that modernity is just a thin veneer over the darker recesses of the human heart.
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Apr 15, 2025 • 6min

Australia's Population Ponzi Scheme

The environmental havoc is justified as needed for the economy, but the evidence does not support this claim.

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