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The Artist and the Censor
Only proponents of the concept of art for art’s sake always can be depended on to oppose the censorship of art. The most robust argument against censorship lies not in appeals to Enlightenment valu…
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Winners and Losers: The Global Economy After COVID
The COVID-19 pandemic has transformed the world economy in ways that will be debated by pundits and future historians for decades to come. Yet, as hard as it is to predict a disrupted future accura…
When Norman Jewison Turned His Camera on the Ultimate Superstar
While some critics would later struggle to find a thematic through-line connecting Norman Jewison’s films, the Canadian director often identified his signature theme as betrayal. His 1973 musical d…
Understanding the Unidentified
An advantage of having worked in the skeptical business for 30 years is institutional memory that enables me to place current claims and controversies into historical context. So, when the New York…
Vaccine Hesitancy and the Paradox of Choice
A recent survey revealed that 29 percent of Australians said they were not likely to get a COVID vaccine. Even as a new outbreak had emerged in Melbourne, vaccination hubs were not being utilised a…
In Defense of the Universal Values of Science
The progress of modern science has been a truly global phenomenon, a fact worth celebrating, just as the technological fruits of science have, to varying degrees, impacted the lives of everyone on …
How Strong Was Taiwan’s COVID Response?
In September 2020, I arrived in Taiwan on a flight from New York. I had read much about the border protocols that had prevented COVID from entering the country, but many aspects of the arrival proc…
Modern Europe and the Enlightenment—A Review
A review of Modern Europe and the Enlightenment by Rumy Hasan. Sussex Academic Press, 240 pages (May 2021). In a June 2019 interview given to the Financial Times, Russian President Vladimir Putin b…
The Sad Truth About Traditional Environmentalism
What if you’d dedicated most of your life to trying to save the planet, but then you realised that you may have actually—potentially—made things worse? Over the last few years this has become one o…
Sorry, Demi Lovato: You Can’t Fight Sexism by Opting Out of Womanhood
In the first episode of her new podcast, 4D, actress and singer Demi Lovato announced that she now identifies as “non-binary,” and that she would be “changing my pronouns to they/them.” In a half-h…
