Watching the news, Trump says, "Stop. Killing. Protestors." For a second, I thought he was talking about ICE and thought they'd seen the light. But no, it was about Iran.

You get the sense that Gen X/Boomer men were calculating: "How many millennial men do I have to throw off a cliff this year to atone for the sin of my success?" Read Jacob Savage's piece on how DEI destroyed millennial men for COMPACT 👇 www.compactmag.com/article/the-...

Everyone's sure there's a "crisis of men and boys" and equally sure the answer is another "healthy masculinity" initiative. Boys don't need endless behaviour explainers or another injunction to "get help" from appropriate authorities. They need men. www.compactmag.com/article/boys...

Having a bust up with your MAGA uncle this Thanksgiving is probably better for you than sitting alone with your gratitude journal. Read my latest for COMPACT 👇 www.compactmag.com/thanksgiving...

The Vatican’s “repatriation” of Indigenous artifacts implies Catholicism is a white religion. But most Indigenous people in North America are Christian and many are Catholic. Is this not our Church? Are we not Catholics too? www.compactmag.com/article/are-...

Marx said that the history of humanity’s expropriation is written "in letters of blood and fire." But he also saw something else: history creates the universal. Today’s fetish of cultural difference destroys that possibility. My latest for Compact 👇 www.compactmag.com/article/are-...

"When ancient institutions are trying to save their skins, they are merciless even to their own members. But I do not think it will work." Peter Hitches @ClarkeMicah argues that casting out Prince Andrew shows the monarchy's weakness, not its renewal: www.compactmag.com/article/the-...

It seems quite obvious that the UK and similar countries are deeply divided, but this has been more or less the intentional strategy of governments up till now. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

"Teach mindfulness! Mental health! Wellbeing! We'll prevent problems before they start!" When will we learn that we are creating the problems we're pretending to solve? Cultivating excessive self-attention is good for no one, least of all kids.

It seems obvious to me that Mandelson was appointed because his shady links to Epstein clearly made him the best Ambassador to the US with Trump in charge. Clearly a feature not a bug.

Who would have thought that the Left and Right would finally come together over the murder of Charlie Kirk? And yet here they are, all shouting in unison: "Freedom of speech is not freedom from consequences."

Bots only replaced people that psy professionals told us not to trust. They made this therapy couch, and now we're all lying in it. Read my latest on chatGPT as therapist in COMPACT: www.compactmag.com/article/how-...

I've done a lot of things in my life, but my greatest accomplishment must be that time I made french toast with leftover tsoureki.

"Wokeness is distinguished specifically by its authoritarian aspect. It demanded not moral agreement, but ideological submission." Read my review of Andrew Doyle's new book, "The End of Woke": www.compactmag.com/article/woke...

"Man With Disabilities Begs Hospital To Stop Pushing Suicide" I asked Roger to record hospital staff and he's shared the recordings with me. Imagine being cheerfully asked about suicide every time a healthcare worker walks into your room. t.co/RDDfmh415D

I love all this discussion of "child poverty." Like there are these roving bands of orphan Victorian chimney sweeps. Families are in poverty. Parents are poorly paid or unemployed. They aren't impoverished alone.

I reviewed a self-help book called Tiny Experiments. Thanks for the inspiration @ashleyafrawley.bsky.social @oliverburkeman.com open.substack.com/pub/kitnouss...

I remember someone on the radio confidently proclaiming that govts etc had figured out how to avoid economic crises and that we'd never see another one. That was in 2007. www.compactmag.com/article/ever...

"An observer from the mid-18th century might look at us and say that everything is amazing, but no one is happy. That the fate of capitalism has been neither doom nor bliss. So far." Kyle Harper on Capitalism and Its Critics for COMPACT www.compactmag.com/article/ever...

"Unregulated suicides" This is very revealing: It isn't about freedom. It is about making death something "regulated", scheduled, and controlled. As I explain here: brussels.mcc.hu/publication/...

Why are elites so obsessed with gender? Whatever its reality, transgenderism signifies a model of subjectivity prized by technocratic elites: malleable, untethered from tradition, and committed to an endless project of self-creation. Read my latest for Compact: www.compactmag.com/article/how-...

The rule of law is not justice, or equality, or human rights, and it’s definitely not a synonym for democracy. Sometimes, it's the opposite. Political Scientist Darel E Paul examines "the rule of law" as a political weapon: www.compactmag.com/article/who-...

"An inciting incident plus 184 pages of backstory isn’t the structure of a radical modernist novel. It’s just amateurish." @valerie_reads on the myth of the Substacked great American novel www.compactmag.com/article/the-...

"What this movement cannot admit is that legitimacy is not a message problem. It is a material one. No amount of focus-grouping will reverse the fact that millions of people no longer experience this system as responsive to their needs." www.compactmag.com/article/why-...

Are Syria's new leaders trading jihad for GDP growth? Djene Rhys Bajalan documents the surreal turn from sectarian war to Silicon Valley reformism: @compactmag_ www.compactmag.com/article/neol...

Trump talks tough on immigration, but his actual policy somehow manages to blend cowardice with cruelty and failure. Hamilton Craig writes on the perverse outcomes of an immigration policy built on the rhetoric of a Trump rally: www.compactmag.com/article/welc...

"That a globalist technocrat has embraced the language of assertive nationhood marks perhaps the most significant turning point in our post-global world yet." Is Carney's Canadian election victory the end of globalism? @thephilippics.bsky.social for Compact www.compactmag.com/article/how-...

Do I want to get called a libtard by the Right or a Fascist by the Left? I've decided both, so I will need to learn Bluesky.

@ashleyafrawley.bsky.social is I believe touching on something profound, insightful, and important here: www.compactmag.com/article/scho...