Commentary

In this episode Sam Harris reads from the latest issue of Dabiq, the magazine of ISIS, and discusses the beliefs and goals of jihadists worldwide.

What he doesn't get, is that leftism means Marxism. Marxism is a slightly more pointed or tactical Hegelianism. Hegel and Marx right to the Frankfurt School is simply a negation of everything in the West. Our institutions, our culture, our very biological reality. Once you understand this, then one can look at the left and its insanity and see...

Despite these acute observations, and her almost singular attribution of cultural "greatness" to western civilization, Paglia's declaratory statements are always about the biological differences between males and females as such. "All the genres of philosophy, science, high art, athletics, and politics were invented by men". She knows that...

This is a crucial question and one that tends to make many uncomfortable, but it is legitimate: should everyone from outside the Western world be permitted entry to the West as an immigrant? Is there no point where such nations may be allowed to say no to any particular group, regardless of where they come from?

BDS isn't about speech or economics, but intimidation. Like its Nazi predecessor, the purpose of the boycott is to dominate public spaces through a series of confrontations with Jews. These confrontations are calculated to make it seem as if the perpetrators are the victims by engaging in harassment and then claiming that the response to that...

Obvious and repulsive hypocrisy on the part of wealthy and connected people telling us that we must sacrifice our standard of living - indeed, our very way of life - finally is being called out. They want us to bear the entire burden, while their jet-setting lifestyles remain untouched.

Even though Islamists practice and promote what our laws, standards, and norms classify as debased, antisocial, and criminal, many of our public officials, academics, educators, clerics, businessmen, journalists, and celebrities, as well as other progressives and community leaders, tend to say such things as "They have a right to practice their...

For every immigrant who is charged with gang rape, murder or terrorism, the politicians, immigration officials and others responsible for allowing non-whites into the country, should also face charges of rape, murder or terrorism. As custodians of the state, the hostile elite should be intelligent enough to know that ceaseless, massive and...

The phone call from the Police said I was wanted for transphobic hate speech. Somebody from down south had complained. They said my workplace was probably a very 'dangerous' place because of me. I thought this was ridiculous. I asked the officer, 'Have I committed any crime?'. He said, 'No, you have not committed a crime'.

This is not a simple matter of West versus East (Rushdie would have much to say about such a simple demarcation), but a matter of civilisation versus barbarism, wherein the artists, secularists, writers, and reformers of all colours and creeds must make a united stand against the authoritarians and narrow-minded fundamentalists of all kinds and in...