by | Mar 15, 2024

England’s National Health Service (NHS) announced this week that doctors can no longer prescribe puberty blockers to children seeking a gender transition because “there is not enough evidence of safety and clinical effectiveness.” Meanwhile, trans activists in the United States…

by | Mar 8, 2024

He never held any position outside of government, and eventually he became head of state. As his term wore on, he exhibited increasing signs of mental decline and instability and placed limits on his opponents’ right to assemble. In an…

by | Feb 17, 2024

The very first command God gives to the first humans is to be fruitful and multiply. If there aren’t people, then there are no commandments and no wisdom, for who would be there to contemplate or to act? But with…

by | Jan 22, 2024

Observation. Question. Hypothesis. Experiment. Analysis. Conclusion. It’s a progression we all learn in middle school — so ingrained in us that we perhaps never wonder if science was ever done differently. But, solely applying skeptical inductive reasoning to the natural…

by | Dec 18, 2023

Last month, reporting here on the first part of the sixth and last season of The Crown, I was, if I say so myself, a mite snotty. I more or less accused the series’ creator, Peter Morgan, of shamelessly squeezing…

by | Dec 11, 2023

Guglielmo Marconi was stubborn. He probably got that from his mother, an Irish noblewoman who had moved to Italy to marry his father, an aristocrat from Porretta Terme, Italy. He also seems to have had no intention of fitting in…

by | Sep 24, 2023

Anyone surprised by the letter Rumble CEO Chris Pavlovski received from the United Kingdom’s Chair of the Culture, Media, and Sport Committee needs to watch more soccer. Several days after The Times and Channel 4 revealed the rape and sexual…

by | Jul 11, 2023

WASHINGTON — I have spent the last three weeks in a very pleasant place, Europe. Not in Moscow, nor in Kyiv, nor even in Paris. Actually, I have been in London — London, the city that never sleeps or, at…

by | Jun 17, 2023

There once was a British Labour Party politician named Glenda Jackson. She represented a London district in the House of Commons from 1992 to 2015, identifying strongly as a socialist, a feminist, and a republican (that is, a non-monarchist), serving…

by | Jan 13, 2023

Dinner with Joseph Johnson: Books and Friendship in a Revolutionary Age By Daisy Hay (Princeton University Press, 516 pages, $32) From 1760 to 1809, British bookseller and publisher Joseph Johnson (1738–1809) hosted a weekly dinner at his London home and…

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