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1 day ago | 
ruthfullyyours.com | Ruth King |Maarten Boudry
A giant calumny Was a London audience quietly nodding along with Jew-hatred on stage? Melanie Phillips
https://melaniephillips.substack.com/p/a-giant-calumny?utm_campaign=email-post&r=8t06w&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=emailLast week I finally got to see Giant, the much-acclaimed play by Mark Rosenblatt about the antisemitism of the children’s author Roald Dahl. It’s superbly written and magnificently acted. But I found watching it in a London theatre deeply uncomfortable.
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1 day ago | 
ruthfullyyours.com | Maarten Boudry |Ruth King
ISRAEL UP CLOSE By Maarten Boudry
https://quillette.com/2025/05/14/israel-up-close/Amid the many victim vs. oppressor narratives popular among the Left, there’s no shortage of finger-pointing. Each dimension of oppression has its own designated villain: white people, males, the one percent, straight people, and cisgender individuals. And yet, the biggest culprit in this demonology isn’t a person at all—it’s Western civilisation itself.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Richard Hanania |Patrick Whittle |John Aziz |Maarten Boudry
Election pundits like to argue that the issues they care about most are also at the front of voters’ minds. However, it is difficult to dispute that wokeness harms the Democratic Party in national elections. Polls show to letting transwomen participate in women’s sports. In 2020, California voted by over fourteen points to continue the prohibition of affirmative action.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Patrick Whittle |John Aziz |Maarten Boudry |Steije Hofhuis
In his Pulitzer Prize-winning book Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond seeks to explain the ultimate causes of modern societies’ clear disparities in wealth and power. “It is perfectly obvious to everyone,” Diamond points out, “that different peoples have fared differently in history.” But why?
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
quillette.com | John Aziz |Maarten Boudry |Steije Hofhuis |John Lloyd
“It didn’t start on October 7th.” These words have been repeated like a mantra by those who wish to justify Hamas’s actions of 7 October 2023, by suggesting that the savagery of that day was provoked by previous events. There is a subtle conflation at work here.
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Nov 10, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Maarten Boudry |Steije Hofhuis |John Lloyd |Benny Morris
Mind viruses seem to be all the rage these days. In his 2020 bestseller Parasitic Mind, evolutionary psychologist Gad Saad identifies “the tyranny of political correctness” and other “infectious ideas” that are harming our societies.
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Sep 23, 2024 | 
ecomodernisme.be | Maarten Boudry
De aarde is plat, verkondigde de econoom Thomas Friedman in 2005 al in zijn boek over globalisering. Sindsdien is het speelveld van onze globale economie alleen maar verder geëffend. Een onooglijk stukje RNA ontwricht momenteel de hele wereldhandel en de economische schokgolven verspreiden zich zelfs sneller dan het virus. Weken voor Covid-19 bij ons voet aan de grond kreeg, namen de internationale beurzen al een frisse duik.
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Aug 18, 2024 | 
onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Maarten Boudry |Steije Hofhuis
CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATEMENT The authors declare no conflicts of interest. REFERENCES (2010) Voodoo histories: the role of the conspiracy theory in shaping modern history. New York:Riverhead Books. (1951/2017) The origins of totalitarianism. London: Penguin Classics. (2011) Religious diversity (pluralism). Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Available at: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/religious-pluralism/ (2021) Evidential preemption.
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Jun 12, 2024 | 
openforum.com.au | Maarten Boudry
Universities across the world are facing pressure—from students but also from academic staff—to cut ties with Israeli institutions over the war in Gaza. In the US, a dozen universities have struck agreements with activists and partly conceded to their demands, including divestment from Israeli companies. In Europe, dozens of Spanish universities and five Norwegian universities have resolved to sever all ties with Israeli partners deemed “complicit” in the war in Gaza.
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Jun 11, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Kushal Mehra |Craig A. Clifford |Maarten Boudry |Mike Cote
I was raised in an Indian household that was religious, but not particularly ritualistic. My father is a murti pujak (icon worshipper), and my mother hails from a family whose members follow the monotheistic Hindu reform movement known as Arya Samaji (आर्य समाज, or “Noble Society”).
