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September 11, 2020

Africa’s catastrophic Covid response Blunt, panicky lockdowns across the continent are doing far more damage than the pandemic itself

Christianity was the original cancel culture For 2,000 years people in power have been trying to no-platform those they consider a threat to hearts and minds

Catherine Nixey

Hollywood’s hapless diversity bid Driven by Darwinian levels of competition, it's the last place to enact an egalitarian experiment

What we meritocracy critics get wrong Selection by merit is not the problem — the overwhelming focus on academic intelligence is

Thursday

10.09

Stop crying foul over fascism The Left justifies extreme and violent action by framing Trump as an existential threat to America

Why ‘Civilization’ is a political masterpiece Sid Meier's creation invites us to think about how the world works — and warns it could be a lot worse

Imagine a world without the USA… France and Britain have reached a stalemate in North America and no colonial rebellion ensues

Has Boris forgotten our fishing history? The sea is woven deep into the culture of the British Isles. Politicians ignore it at their peril

Mary Harrington

Wednesday

09.09

Why a little knowledge is a dangerous thing Almost everything that is wrong with the world is caused by coordination problems

Tabloid fake law is not the only fake law The Secret Barrister’s new book on misinformation seems to betray a loss of impartiality

How the Great Famine made Catholic Ireland The restrained and conservative nature of the country was a response to the trauma

The glorious reign of King Henry IX What if Henry VIII's son by Katherine of Aragon had survived?

Suzannah Lipscomb