Perfectly neutral institutions will never be attainable, argues Noah Carl, but that doesn’t mean that reasonably neutral institutions aren’t worth striving for.
Rupert Lowe has called for halal and kosher meat to be banned. But there's a problem with his argument: he doesn't mention factory farming—a far greater evil.
The Right has spent much of the last decade railing against cancel culture, and was arguably winning the debate. It would be a mistake to abandon that position now.
Starmer and his party face a much greater threat than ill-advised financial decisions by the deputy prime minister: barely anyone supports them.
The overwhelming majority of illegal migrants are adult men. Does anyone really believe that covering hotel bills for adult men in Britain is the best way to help the world's poor?
Is the global fertility crash due, at least in part, to worries over the climate? A new Swedish study finds little evidence that concern about climate change is an important contributor to low birth rates.
Yes, most types of crime have fallen since the late 1990s. But that doesn’t mean the country is going through some sort of golden age – far from it.
It's widely assumed that people on the right are more likely to believe that genes matter for success. However, a new poll shows that overwhelming majorities of both Democrats and Republicans deny the role of genes.
Votes for 16 and 17 year-olds will be a disaster for the Right. The evidence suggests that 75% of them will vote for Left-wing parties at the next election – versus only about 25% who will vote for Right-wing parties.
Two major cross-national surveys published this year show that China is now perceived more positively than the US – by a sizeable margin. Is the US losing the world to China?
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