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The contrasting lives and ambitions of two major figures in the fight for Indian Independence: General Kodandera Subayya Thimayya (“Timmy”) and Subhas Chandras Bose. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The questions at the centre of the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial are still contested today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bob Vylan’s “death to the IDF” chants at Glastonbury reveal how Britain’s economic despair has radicalised a generation and threatens to revive ancient hatreds. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Women create whisper networks to keep themselves safe from antisocial male behaviour. But unfortunately, such networks can be highjacked by our antisocial female peers. By ⁠Amy Eileen Hamm⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Clay Risen’s new book about the American “Red Scare” emphasises the injustices of anti-communism but minimises the true extent and danger of communist infiltration. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As an aggressive activist strategy, the “pinkwashing” charge is shameless and shrewd. As moral reasoning, it is inane. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The reason most teaching is bad is that most teaching follows a demonstrably bad model. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Netanyahu’s Nobel Prize gesture masks serious diplomatic divisions over Iran’s nuclear programme and the future of Gaza’s devastated population. Benny Morris Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Twenty years after his death, what Hunter S. Thompson’s legacy—or lack of it—tells us about literature and manhood in our current moment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How journalism exchanged the duty to inform for an ethic of customer satisfaction. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Othello and Iago represent two enduring behaviours whose conflicts have shaped much of humanity’s theory of mind and moral emotions to the present day. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein has made a name for herself as one of STEM’s most implacable activists. Now the targets of her online attacks are fighting back. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Zohran Mamdani’s brand of socialism appeals to the luxury beliefs of New York’s middle classes. If his preferred policies are implemented, New Yorkers will suffer—and the poorest of them will be most impacted. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Israel-Iran conflict may already be over, following the destruction of Iran’s nuclear facilities. But the future is deeply uncertain. By Benny Morris. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The struggle between the two middle classes is not just a matter of wealth and power, but also of retaining the social basis for democracy itself. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When Westerners hate the West. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Israel faces two major challenges: destroying the Iranian enrichment plant at Fordow and locating and eliminating the country’s stockpile of enriched uranium. For the first, it will need US assistance. By Benny Morris. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Israeli attack on Iran is in line with its longstanding policy of never allowing its neighbouring enemies to acquire nuclear weapons. But it is also the latest episode in the wider war against Israel launched in late 2023 by Iran’s proxies. Written by Benny Morris. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For at least some, globalising the Intifada means exporting the tactics of Hamas to the West, thus threatening peaceful liberal societies everywhere. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The institution of monogamy in Classical Greece may have led to a host of phenomena that shaped the modern West: from individualism and abstract thinking to liberalism and democracy. Written by ⁠James Kierstead.⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Trump administration’s decision to start revoking the visas of international students is vindictive, petty, and counterproductive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Why are liberal democracies facing a crisis of meaning? In this video, we explore Roger Partridge’s powerful defence of Karl Popper’s Open Society—a vision of liberalism based on freedom, tolerance, and civic engagement. As figures like Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Jordan Peterson, and Peter Thiel call for a return to religion and nationalism, many argue that the West has lost its moral and spiritual foundati...

Hitchens didn’t just see how identity politics could warp a person’s ideas and principles—he understood that it could replace them altogether. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The urge to censor is based on a misunderstanding of what makes literature valuable. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The article "Too Many Moons" by Lawrence M. Krauss discusses the recent recognition by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) of 128 new moons of Saturn, bringing its total to 274. This prompts questions about whether the term "moon" needs a more restrictive definition, similar to the reclassification of Pluto as a dwarf planet. The article highlights the distinction between "regular" moons, w...