Does TED Still Make Sense?

Progressive anti-Zionism and the poisonous legacy of Cold War hatred.

The magisterial incomprehensibility of Bob Dylan’s ‘Visions of Johanna.’

The campaign to remove Hamas from the UK’s list of proscribed organisations is not about defending free speech or political dissent. It is about legitimising jihadist warmongering.

Adnan Syed would never have been released had ‘Serial’ not been made. Advocacy journalism must be treated with caution.

A serious reexamination of this case must begin by setting out the evidence that led the jury to convict.

Last week’s TED Talks in Vancouver featured dozens of brilliant speakers. But the earnest belief that big new ideas can save humanity from itself now feels painfully dated.

Five decades after its release, Wake in Fright remains a brutally captivating reminder that modernity is just a thin veneer over the darker recesses of the human heart.

The environmental havoc is justified as needed for the economy, but the evidence does not support this claim.

Its ability to churn out such plausible sounding explanations for historical and social phenomena is part of Marxism’s core appeal. But its grand theoretical framework simply does not hold up.

The media’s obsessive focus on the Israel–Palestine conflict obscures the broader picture of the ubiquity of jihadism in the Middle East, and the crucial role it plays in stoking and perpetuating turmoil and strife.