“There’s a scientific revolution brewing, catalysed by the idea that considering how our bodies evolved will help us better understand and treat disease,” argues Laith al-Shawaf. If you infect a rabbit with a virus or a bacterium, it’ll start to run a fever. Why? The surprising answer is that fever is not a disease; it’s […]

“The EU has a democracy deficit. Most Europeans have very little influence over legislation passed in Brussels. The European Parliament is both more inaccessible and more toothless than national parliaments, and the governing structures of the EU are designed to be unresponsive to democratic pressure,” argues Ralph Leonard in this review of Hans Kundnani’s latest

“Contrary to the common mythology, what we now call the EU did not arise from a benevolent, enlightened post-1945 epiphany, in which the European nations rejected war and conquest,” argues Ralph Leonard. Eurowhiteness: Culture, Empire and Race in the European Project by Hans Kundnani (2023). A review. The dream of a united Europe has a

“Many conservative critics have condemned postmodern theory for dissolving the epistemic and moral bases of western society. Dugin agrees that the postmodernists theorists have accomplished this—and praises them for it—in the service of a geopolitical project vastly more reactionary than any Jordan Peterson would be comfortable with,” argues Matt McManus in this week’s feature. I

“The so-called awokening of 2020, as Alex Hochuli has argued, represented the ‘global triumph of American idealism,’ which has led non-Americans to go beyond expressing noble statements of international solidarity and imagine themselves as participants in American struggles, ‘eagerly adopting the slogans and paraphernalia of a uniquely American protest,’ in a way that obscures their