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Giving People Money Helped Less Than I Thought It Would
https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/giving-people-money-helped-less-than
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Scientists Prove Justinian's Plague, which Continued through the Rise of Islam, was Caused by Y. Pestis
https://www.juancole.com/2025/09/scientists-justinians-continued.html
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) - The first recorded world-historical pandemic took place in the Roman Empire and Sasanian Iran, as …
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Wifedom: Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life, by Anna Funder
https://www.annafunder.com/wifedom/
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Shocked by Epstein’s birthday book? That culture was everywhere before feminism | Rebecca Solnit | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/13/epstein-birthday-book-feminism-culture
Feminism exposed the ubiquity of child abuse, rape, sexual harassment and domestic violence – and helped fight that culture
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Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning | The Nation
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/charlie-kirk-assassination-maga/#
The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn’t a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division
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The senator, the ex-PM and the lobby group: Price’s crusade to remake the Liberals
https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/the-senator-the-ex-pm-and-the-lobby-group-price-s-crusade-to-remake-the-liberals-20250911-p5mueu.html
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Emily Witt · Do you feel like a failure? In the Manosphere
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n16/emily-witt/do-you-feel-like-a-failure
The manosphere is confusing, because it’s a place where one can find both benign advice about protein consumption and...
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When is a tent too big?
https://publiccomment.blog/p/when-is-a-tent-too-big
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The government has asked for bold proposals. Maybe it’s time to consider taxing the family home
https://theconversation.com/the-government-has-asked-for-bold-proposals-maybe-its-time-to-consider-taxing-the-family-home-262323
When it comes to improving the fairness of the tax system, this is no time to be squeamish.
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The Chinese Adoptees Who Were Stolen | The New Yorker
https://www.newyorker.com/news/american-chronicles/the-chinese-adoptees-who-were-stolen
DNA tests and organizations such as 23andMe, DNAConnect, GEDmatch, and Nanchang Project are reuniting parents and children separated by China's one-child policy, Barbara Demick reports.
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Another Australia
https://www.sweatshop.ws/another-australia
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How Big Can a Black Hole Get? | Scientific American
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-big-can-a-black-hole-get/
Some black holes get extremely massive. Is there an upper limit to their growth?
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Where's the Shovelware? Why AI Coding Claims Don't Add Up
https://mikelovesrobots.substack.com/p/wheres-the-shovelware-why-ai-coding
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How mainstream media and politicians fuelled Australia's biggest far-right rally
https://www.lamestream.com.au/how-mainstream-media-and-politicians-fuelled-australias-biggest-far-right-rally/
Six takeaways from the March for Australia and why it should be a wake-up call.
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I Want Everything, by Dominic Amerena
https://www.simonandschuster.com.au/books/I-Want-Everything/Dominic-Amerena/9781761631733
Clinical Comedy
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/clinical-comedy/
It is impossible to change people’s minds. Every new fact is taken as confirmation of pre-existing bias, every criticism of our in-group taken as a sign of the critic’s bad faith. We are more sure than ever that we are more sure than ever, we are of one
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Episode 168 Pregnancy: Act 1 – This Podcast Will Kill You
https://thispodcastwillkillyou.com/2025/03/11/episode-168-pregnancy-act-1/
Episode 181 PCOS: Beyond the cysts – This Podcast Will Kill You
https://thispodcastwillkillyou.com/2025/07/08/episode-181-pcos-beyond-the-cysts/
The Season, by Helen Garner
https://www.textpublishing.com.au/books/the-season
It’s footy season in Melbourne, and Helen Garner is following her grandson’s under-16s team. She not only goes to every game (give or take), but to every training session too, shivering on the sidelines at dusk, fascinated by the spectacle.She’s a passionate Western Bulldogs fan (with an imperfect
Episode 147 Tasmanian Devil Facial Tumor Disease: Sympathy for the Devil – This Podcast Will Kill You
https://thispodcastwillkillyou.com/2024/07/30/episode-147-tasmanian-devil-facial-tumor-disease-sympathy-for-the-devil/
Liberals: Alas, the Time Has Come to Throw John Rawls Under the Bus
https://newrepublic.com/article/199273/john-rawls-liberals-philosopher-bus-neutrality
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Sally Rooney could be arrested under Terrorism Act after pledging royalties to Palestine Action | Books | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/aug/18/author-sally-rooney-to-donate-funds-to-palestine-action
The bestselling novelist promised to financially support the group proscribed as a terrorist organisation by the British government
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The Mind of Those Who Kill, and Kill Themselves - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/07/science/the-mind-of-those-who-kill-and-kill-themselves.html?_r=0
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