Exploring new and dangerous ideas in a world where ignorance has become the celebrated virtue.
What America is facing is, at a superficial level, a gun crisis. At deeper level, however, its fabled constitution is gripped in an existential crisis entirely predicated on the fact that a document written 230 years ago is always going to struggle for relevancy.
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It turns out that decades of protection under a state-sanctioned monopoly has made the entire industry complacent and over entitled. Once customers were given a choice, they rapidly voted with their wallets.
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Really there are three things in life which are certain – death, taxes and mass shootings in the United States. Las Vegas, San Bernardino, Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Sandy Hook Elementary School, Virginia Tech, the movie theatre in Aurora, Fort Hood and Columbine High School – all of these are mass shootings so notorious they are synonymous with their geography.
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Let me start by saying that I never thought the day would come where I would be on the same side of an argument as Miranda Devine… Get ready to unleash the hounds, but despite the laughably stupid ‘Keeping it Light with Coopers’ Bible Society video, I am not joining my brethren on the Left […]
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Reflections on my own experiences with Feminism. I wasn’t always particularly sympathetic to feminism. People who had the misfortune of knowing me when I was at boarding school would probably remember a younger, pudgier me that was convinced feminists were sexless (or worse, lesbian), amorphic vessels of celibacy-exacerbated hatred towards men. Fifteen-year-old me […]
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In the beginning, the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move. Contrary to how I felt when I called the election for Trump at 3:45 on Wednesday, when a combination of shock and nausea convinced me the apocalypse had arrived, the sun […]
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Donald Trump will not be President. Rather, he is a continuation of a systemic problem which plagues the Republican Party – they keep nominating candidates which are increasingly unpalatable to most demographics which aren’t non-college educated males. This article explains this process, and how Romney’s loss in 2012 should have signalled that the Republican Party’s entrenched ideological positions have been left behind by an America demographically different from thirty years ago.
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Every now and again you find yourself reading something which cuts through the superficiality of day-to-day existence. So captivating that it not only captures your attention, it keeps a hold of you a long time after you think you are finished with it. So powerfully personal that it transcends geographical barriers and puts you right […]
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The tragic death of Harambe and what a 200kg gorilla can teach us about logic and risk. What can a 200kg Gorilla can teach us about risk? In Cincinnati this week, a 200kg gorilla was put to death after it had grabbed a four-year old child who had fallen over the wall and into the […]
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Power, political promises and your children. We are in the midst of an election campaign. Thanks dipshit, because weeks of newspaper headlines hadn’t already taught me that. Fair point. The purpose of this observation though is a little more significant than noting something that anyone with half a brain and enough passing curiosity to […]
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The Young Contrarians 