Aayan Hirsi Ali draws on the work of a KGB defector who testified about Soviet tactics of subversion, that is, weakening an opposing nation from within by undermining its values and turning its people against their own institutions. She shows how the stages of subversion are playing out in the West today, even in the apparent absence of an organized adversary.
Nearly half of Generation Z and over a quarter of internet users as a whole say that they have a "double life," projecting a different identity online than in their actual lives. Is this just innocent play acting, a sinister masquerade, a kind of virtual schizophrenia, or what?
In a debate with her New Atheist mentor Richard Dawkins, ex-Muslim, ex-atheist, new Christian convert Ayaan Hirsi Ali tells more about her faith, which--contrary to what some Christians worried about--is not just the embrace of a cultural religion necessary to preserve Western civilization, but a genuine faith in Jesus Christ. And she coaxes some remarkable concessions from Dawkins.
According to Kohei Saito, capitalism creates economic growth, which puts ever-more carbon into the atmosphere. Therefore, capitalism is ultimately responsible for the climate catastrophe that awaits us.The only way to avoid that is by reversing economic growth by abandoning capitalism for communism, which can also control people to force them to curb their environmentally-ruinous behavior.
Religion is natural for human beings, says Sebastian Morello. But natural religion tends to be this-worldly, usually looking to earthly rulers as the highest authority. Christianity, on the other hand, is not a natural religion but a supernatural religion. And yet, Christianity often has to contend against the allure of the religion that is natural to us.
Setbacks in the artificial intelligence revolution. The internet comes for Amazon tribes. And pro-life protesters get long prison terms.
Even as societies have become careful not to "trigger" the suicidal but to encourage them to call suicide hotlines, where they are taught that their lives have value, the same societies are legalizing euthanasia and assisted suicide, which teaches the opposite.
"A lot of people who have depression don’t really have mental illness. They’re having the appropriate response to leading a life that’s antithetical to happiness. So antithetical, in fact, that they’d be mentally ill if they were happy. . . ." Hans Fiene
China has great ambitions. It hopes to replace the United States as the world's greatest superpower. That means having the world's most successful economy and the most powerful military. But one obstacle to all of that is its plunging population. Demographer Yi Fuxian shows why.
A puzzle about the campus protests in support of Hamas and in condemnation of Israel is the strange alliance of the woke left (feminist, sexually permissive, pro-LGBTQ+) with Islamic jihadists (suppressing women, sexually strict, death penalty for gays). How can we account for that?
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