Steven Pinker: I spoke with @LaulPatricia [Dr P Arora} about Marxism: One is: What’s remarkable is that Marxism has been tried. Now, of course, defenders of Marxism say it hasn’t really been tried anywhere, but certainly the people who implemented it claimed they were implementing Marxism. And this is a massive experiment—a global experiment—with a…

“…are exterminating their citizens by the thousands mostly shooting them in the head at point blank range for peaceful protest when in Britain you can’t get the police to come out if you’ve had your car stolen.” Though they’ll come out in the thousands, our police, to escort Free Palestine mobs through our cities, and…

Sally Satel at Commentary on the antisemitic corrosion that’s eating away at psychotherapy in the US. A therapist in Chicago named Heba Ibrahim-Joudeh felt that patients, too, needed to be protected from Zionist therapists. In winter 2024, Ibrahim-Joudeh, a member of the Chicago Anti-Racist Therapists Facebook group, organized a “blacklist” of local Zionist therapists. “I’ve…

From the Jerusalem Post: As many as 30,000 people may have been killed across Iran during a two-day crackdown on January 8 and 9, TIME reported on Sunday, citing two senior Health Ministry officials and a separate compilation of hospital data shared with the publication. The figures have not been independently verified and far exceed numbers publicly…

Full text: …It is a comprehensive rejection of political Islam as a governing ideology, articulated by millions who have endured its cruelty. In that sense, the uprising in Iran is a global reckoning. Since 1979, the Islamic Republic has ruled through systematic violence. It has executed tens of thousands of political prisoners, including the mass…

John Spencer in Tablet on the Gaza genocide charge: Wanting to destroy your enemy is not genocide. It is war. War is not illegal, and in some cases, it is necessary. The aim of many of those accusing Israel of genocide is in fact to make it impossible for any law-abiding nation to defend itself…

Watch these powerful and urgent remarks — and a devastating story shared by Dr. Payam Akhavan, former UN legal advisor on war crimes tribunals, former Special Advisor on Genocide to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, and one of the world’s leading international human rights lawyers — speaking at the @UN_HRC. His words are…

Not sure about “pure wickedness”. Pure stupidity, more like. This now seems to be the default position for the hard left. Whatever is opposed to the West is to be supported. Communism didn’t work out? OK. let’s try hard-line Islam.

Another social media win. The comments on this – on Unison’s betrayal of women – are devastating.

Mainstream media not so much. The BBC can barely stifle a yawn. Not all bad then, social media….