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The Bondi attack was widely treated as an unforeseeable act of individual violence. Claire Lehmann argues otherwise.
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For their research showing that rape is generally motivated by sexual desire, Randy Thornhill and Craig Palmer were subjected to death threats and hounded in their personal and professional lives. And yet, they were right. 00:00 — Arguing rape is a sexual act 01:37 — A murder case and disputed motive 02:04 — Ideology in the courtroom 02:59 — Scorpion flies 04:06 — A Natural History of Rape 05:01 — Media distortion and outrage 05:56 — Boycotts and academic punishment 06:37 — The blank slate ideology 07:05 — Support from survivors 08:12 — A parallel case in France Based on a Quillette essay by Peggy Sastre and presented by Ζoë.
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"It was selfish." Author Lionel Shriver reflects on her decision not to have children.
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Henry Nowak's family asked that his death not be used to create division. Within hours, it was being used for exactly that.
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.Jesse Brown on how the “anti-Zionist, not anti-Jewish” line collapses once you look at how most Jews actually identify.
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Grindr's unfair policy: Gay men can't filter out trans men, but trans men can filter out natal males. - Ben Appel
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Why are many Western Leftists more sad about the death of Ayatollah Khamenei than the deaths of thousands of Iranian protesters?
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Claire Lehmann comments on Victoria's new anti-vilification laws.
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How did Grace Tame go from campaigning against sexual abuse to chanting “globalise the intifada” — a slogan tied to Hamas, whose October 7 attacks included sexual violence? Research in moral psychology helps explain how empathy, purity instincts, and social pressure can drive radicalisation among young Western women.
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Many countries claim to support a two-state solution—but Palestinians have never accepted a state beside a Jewish one. ד״ר עינת וילף Dr. Einat Wilf calls this “Schrödinger’s Palestine”: alive when it can attack Israel diplomatically, dead when it requires peace or responsibility.
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Hamas rules Gaza. Fatah rules the West Bank. Two decades of division have made Palestinian statehood more remote than ever.
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Uncovering Aboriginal Australia: A Conversation with Mungo Manic Detailed timestamps 👇 Origins and Early Human Migration 00:00 Introduction to Mungo Manic and early Australians 00:55 Who is Mungo Manic 03:41 Terminology and definitions of "Aboriginal" 04:47 Terminology preferences in scientific contexts 05:29 Origins of the word "Aboriginal" and its historical usage 07:32 The term "Aboriginal" losing a genetic or racial definition in the 1960s or 1970s 09:10 The three-part test of Aboriginal identity Early Human Settlement and Fossil Evidence 12:55 How and when humans first arrived in Australia 16:40 Early skeletons, including Mungo Man 21:00 The study of Mungo Man 23:35 Did Denisovans make it to Australia 25:20 Fossil degradation in Lake Mungo Isolation, Cultural Practices, and Environmental Adaptation 26:00 Isolation of pre-colonial Australia and the ancestry of dingoes 33:15 Aboriginal women breastfeeding dingoes and their importance as pets 36:35 The taboo against eating dog in Parsi culture Social Structures and Survival Practices 37:30 Infanticide in Aboriginal Australian culture 40:55 Cannibalism in Aboriginal Australian culture including endocannibalism and exocannibalism 42:14 Warfare and violence in early Australian life 42:48 The nature of warfare and violence in ancient Australian societies 44:20 Christophe Darmangeat's expertise on Aboriginal warfare 45:39 Capital and corporal punishment in Aboriginal Australia 49:28 The lack of rights for Aboriginal women 51:30 Sorcery and the practice of pointing the bone Technology, Environment, and Innovation 54:00 Technological development in Aboriginal Australia and Jared Diamond’s theory 56:23 Was Australia actually a harsh environment 58:43 Technological simplicity in Tasmania after separation from mainland Australia 01:02:00 Competition and innovation 01:03:45 Kimberley spear points, Sulawesi, and Macassan sailors 01:05:30 The oldest known rock art Cultural Practices and Initiation Rituals 01:06:45 Cultural practices and initiation rituals 01:07:30 Initiation practices including scarification, tooth evulsion, and circumcision 01:12:20 Subincision 01:14:00 Female circumcision and virginity in Aboriginal Australia 01:20:00 The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes, wife-sharing, and sexual practices in Aboriginal culture 01:24:46 The practice of clubbing women 01:25:35 The resilience and immune system of Aboriginal Australians Impact of Humans on the Environment 01:27:08 Human impact on the Australian landscape and megafauna extinction 01:31:00 Boomerangs used in warfare 01:33:50 The film Ten Canoes Religious and Spiritual Beliefs 01:35:20 Religious beliefs and spiritual practices including the Dreaming 01:40:00 Aboriginal eschatology 01:42:00 The extinction of the people of Kangaroo Island 01:43:00 Mourning periods and mummification 01:45:42 The cultural practice of not mentioning the dead Modern Aboriginal Identity and Historical Debates 01:48:04 Are Tasmanian Aboriginals extinct Was it genocide The Henry Reynolds black armband theory vs Keith Windschuttle 01:53:53 Defining Aboriginal identity today racial definitions vs self-identification 01:56:55 Blue-eyed blonde-haired Aboriginal people vs Tasmanian Aboriginals 02:00:52 The importance of Tasmanian DNA research 02:03:22 A critique of Bruce Pascoe’s Dark Emu and its depiction of ancient Australians as agriculturalists Colonial Impact and Unanswered Questions 02:11:27 Kidnappings 02:15:40 The need for anonymity in controversial discussions 02:29:27 Biggest mysteries in Aboriginal history
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