Freud gave us the return of the repressed. Now, with Kanye West’s agreed purchase of Parler, we have the comeback of the cancelled. After Google and Apple pulled Right-wing social network Parler from their stores following the January 6 riots last year, it reappeared on the Apple … | Continue reading
No one wants to be a bad person, and you probably felt pretty bad when you saw the heart-breaking appeal and just carried on clicking. Wikipedia is midway through a six-week fund-raising drive in Anglophone regions including the United States, the UK, New Zealand and Australia. T … | Continue reading
The energy wars have exposed a disturbing fantasy | Continue reading
Solidarity means more in Tehran than Washington | Continue reading
Nothing is private and no one is free | Continue reading
Students should consent to be harmed | Continue reading
Since the monkeypox outbreak was declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern — the World Health Organization’s highest level of alert — on July 23rd, reactions across the world have varied in urgency. In the wake of WHO’s announcement Australia declared monkeypox … | Continue reading
The culture wars have infantilised society | Continue reading
Wikipedia has changed the definition of ‘recession’ and locked the page from further edits. These changes were made during the week that the White House proposed a re-definition of recession to mean something other than two consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth. Until July … | Continue reading
The tech billionaire discusses Silicon Valley, Christianity and apocalypse | Continue reading
Legacy universities have already lost the campus wars | Continue reading
RAF vets take to the skies one last time | Continue reading
Article URL: https://unherd.com/2022/06/what-happened-to-the-lab-leak-hypothesis/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31866601 Points: 72 # Comments: 30 | Continue reading
Vindictive protectiveness has re-shaped our institutions | Continue reading
We have fallen out of love with good writing | Continue reading
Economists are divorced from reality | Continue reading
Even a ceasefire won't thwart his masterplan | Continue reading
Restorative justice is a dream come true for abusers | Continue reading
Do the covid vaccines save lives? That is the question on many people’s minds, that has led to heated discussions across the world. A bombshell new study by a distinguished team of Danish researchers led by Prof. Christine Stabell-Benn suggests a surprisingly nuanced answer. In t … | Continue reading
Why do neurodiversity activists claim suffering is beautiful? | Continue reading
This week we witnessed the latest — and perhaps more striking — sign that crypto might not be the future of finance. On Tuesday, Sam Bankman-Fried, founder of FTX, a huge crypto exchange, opened a can of worms by describing “yield farming” — crypto’s makeshift alternative to trad … | Continue reading
His invasion was set in motion last spring | Continue reading
Rural France faces an existential crisis | Continue reading
It is now taboo to write about social differences | Continue reading
Putin is terrified by his nation's demographic crisis | Continue reading
After George Floyd died, the city turned on the police | Continue reading
He will never succeed in imposing order on Ukraine | Continue reading
Putin has mastered the art of negotiating in bad faith | Continue reading
Reason has been superseded by the need to obey | Continue reading
Colleges have abandoned real learning for wokeism | Continue reading
Some pet owners are getting confused | Continue reading
Science writers have become useful idiots | Continue reading
Only personal bravery can end polarisation | Continue reading
Reality is manipulated to strengthen their regime | Continue reading
It's not just Russian men waiting to exploit them | Continue reading
Skin colour trumps academic achievement | Continue reading
Individuality will dissolve into mindless conformity | Continue reading
There's not much girl power in the animal kingdom | Continue reading
Tech bros don't realise he's a prophet of their decline | Continue reading
His creeping insanity has finally erupted | Continue reading
Nothing is more dangerous than a well-read dictator | Continue reading
They sullied my memoir to suit their agenda | Continue reading
Pre-pandemic, Moderna was a $9 billion company. But by the time Covid had spread around the world the biotech company’s value grew to $35 billion. Then came the advent of the vaccines, of which Moderna was one of the leading manufacturers, and the company’s net worth soared to an … | Continue reading
A computer is a portal to a dangerous world | Continue reading
Back then we still had a future to yearn for | Continue reading
Parents are fighting the return of segregation | Continue reading