Xin Du

Mystical truth and palpable absurdity

13 March 2024 3:00 am

George Orwell wrote in 1984, ‘The words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a palpable…

Mediocranny – the legacy of DEI

18 January 2024 3:00 am

There are so many lessons to be learned from the case of ex-Harvard President Claudine Gay. Perhaps the crux of…

To survive, Europe must change

12 December 2023 1:10 am

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s wonderful novel The Leopard tells the story of a Sicilian prince and how his aristocratic life faced…

Revelation of ignorance

21 November 2023 5:00 am

During a call-in show with the late Christopher Hitchens, many years ago, a lady asked a simple but discerning question.…

The Sound of Freedom, a revolutionary act

20 July 2023 6:00 am

During times of universal deceit, wrote George Orwell, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. Our time can certainly be…

Affirmative action is racism

13 July 2023 5:00 am

Asian American students win a victory against the woke left

Afghanistan’s fall and the flaw of unadulterated idealism

25 June 2023 5:00 am

Two years since America’s calamitous and reckless withdrawal from Afghanistan, turning it over to the Taliban, the country has experienced…

Ageing Senate reveals frail US republic

3 June 2023 4:00 am

The late Christopher Hitchens improved on Gore Vidal’s phrasing, citing the ‘bright autumn of my senescence’ in a 1994 book…

The Dutch farmers’ stand against green tyranny

13 May 2023 4:30 am

‘The whole point of bureaucracy is to reduce the possibilities of your life to the greatest possible degree when it…

Politicising death: the US obsession with race politics

9 May 2023 5:00 am

The death of Jordan Neely, a 30-year-old homeless man, is being spun as the next George Floyd. Neely died after he was…

The merchants of gender activism

13 April 2023 5:00 am

Nietzsche wrote in his notebooks, reflecting on the decay of civilisation that his acute senses have registered, that, ‘We are…

Ban these books!

2 March 2023 6:00 am

The curious and eager nature of some to desperately find something to be upset about, like an overexcited bloodhound, is…

The anti-anti-racism movement?

24 February 2023 6:00 am

It is something of a rare delight to write positively about race relations in recent years. As such, these stories…

The poison of ersatz victimhood

19 February 2023 6:00 am

In an interview about his excellent book Black Rednecks and White Liberals, the eminent scholar Thomas Sowell underlined several peoples that…

Why did medical authorities reject vitamin D?

13 February 2023 4:30 am

I hope this does not count as boasting, but I wrote, rather exasperatedly, about the lack of promotion of vitamin…

Biden: the merchant of hypocrisy

12 February 2023 6:00 am

It seems to be a scientific law, like gravity, that whatever trespasses the US Democrats accuse the Republicans of, it…

Delilah is banned, what’s next?

7 February 2023 8:00 am

Delilah is a 1967 chart-topper first sung by the Welsh dragon Sir Tom Jones. The song topped the charts in many…

The Menu: delicious satire on the emptiness of consumerism

29 January 2023 6:00 am

Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, ‘The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilisation.’ For…

From prince to toad

18 January 2023 8:00 am

A few years ago, Prince Harry was one of the most popular British Royals. As a boy, he lost his…

Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered

13 December 2022 12:31 pm

In the novel Reading Lolita in Tehran, Azar Nafisi gave a heart-wrenching account of her experience as an English teacher in the…

The pandemic pushers need to stop

24 November 2022 7:00 am

During the WHO press conference on global health issues on November 9, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced that since…

Eco-crazy: where does this end?

18 November 2022 10:00 am

One of the few bright spots during the early phase of the Covid pandemic was the sight of a smiling 99-year-old…

Leftugees: Democrats escape blue states

5 November 2022 11:04 am

Remember the chorus of Hollywood bien-pensants who publicly avowed that they would leave the country if Trump won the election in 2016? To…

Environmental extremists: iconoclasts without a cause

28 October 2022 4:00 am

It is self-evident that even among those of us who are not religious, there is an instinct towards the numinous…

‘Woke’ poisons everything

19 October 2022 10:00 am

If the intention of Woke acolytes is to make everything a lot worse, they should be given a gold star…