Playwright, Novelist. Wrote THE PRIMATE MYTH, revolutionary book Publishers Weekly calls "Smart, provocative reconsideration of humanity's evolutionary history"
Joined July 2013
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My latest Substack looks at @RichardDawkins , how recent research points up huge flaws in his thinking about #evolution, and why he refuses to debate me and won’t discuss this. jonathanleaf.substack.com/p/…
My latest Substack looks at the real significance of the Paramount-Warner Brothers Merger. jonathanleaf.substack.com/p/…
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French news CNews reported this morning that the rioters had addresses of Jewish shop owners and that, on one Marseille street, all Jewish-owned businesses were set on fire while Muslim-owned ones were not.
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"... it’s not hard to identify the websites that offer porn videos, the government could easily shut down those that refuse to impose an excise tax on their services."
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My latest Substack looks at a vice that’s never taxed and asks why this is. jonathanleaf.substack.com/p/…
Belated declaration: October @newcriterion is typically amazing. Great pieces (as always) from @rkylesmith, @rogerkimball, Anthony Daniels, @mark_bauerlein, @JamesPanero, et al.
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NPR: “uncertainties about zacharia’s qualifications as a lawyer...”
also NPR: abdul el-sayed is a doctor...
(with zero medical license, zero residency, and zero ability to treat a patient. nothing to see here, folks.)
npr.org/2026/10/14/nx-s1-600…
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Hamas taxes food during “the genocide,” you guys.
Today, Hamas imposed a new tax of around $3,500 per truck entering Gaza, calling it a “community contribution.”
Merchants will pass that cost on to consumers, forcing people in Gaza to pay even higher prices.
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Nobel for the light verse of a Canadian poet while Marie-Claire Blais, Robertson Davies, and Mordechai Richler died unSwedened.
My latest Substack looks at a failure of approach in the awarding of Nobel Prizes for Literature. jonathanleaf.substack.com/p/…
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"Awful" as in "invoking awe," or "awful" as in "Why won't death come quickly"?
Greta Gerwig’s $280M ‘NARNIA’ is reportedly raising concerns at Netflix after a test screening, with insiders calling the film “awful”.
The production has undergone reshoots amid those concerns.
(theinsneider.com/p/greta-ger…)
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"the nobel committee has a knack for picking a nation’s second-rank talent."
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My latest Substack looks at a failure of approach in the awarding of Nobel Prizes for Literature. jonathanleaf.substack.com/p/…
I know this must be a big surprise...
#Palestine | Announcement of the postponement of Palestinian parliamentary and presidential elections
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If correct, alarming - and really ought to be picked up and run with by the English-language media.
Norwegische Soldaten bemerkten während einer aktuellen Militärübung, dass chinesische Mietwagen von Hertz (darunter Modelle der Marke Deepal) Aufzeichnungen von Soldaten, Bewegungen und sogar Sicherheitscodes für militärische Tore und Türen speicherten.
nettavisen.no/nyheter/forsva…
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"it places author candace buckner in a notable position within the storied tradition of spectacularly wrongheaded and uninformed 'newspaper of record' opinions."
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My latest Substack looks at some advanced statistics on @sophaller’s value as a WNBA player and why @nytimes' @CandaceDBuckner pointedly ignored them. jonathanleaf.substack.com/p/…
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Tucker Carlson was listed as a media advisor for Alexander Dugin's Russian influence group, International National Unity Club (aka MKNE), on their website for 10-11 days before Tucker was mysteriously removed from the website with no explanation.
This group openly states they wage information warfare on the West through conservative podcasters.
See the screenshot of Tucker on the website for yourself!
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"éric rohmer: he thought charles de gaulle was too liberal."
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My latest Substack looks at the exceedingly odd life and career of the great French film director Éric Rohmer. jonathanleaf.substack.com/p/…
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It's a closed loop that excludes the payment generator, Joe Taxpayer.
The addicts "benefit" (sic) from never being challenged, getting the drug (of choice); addictionologists obtain a college fund off the rent-seeking sinecure of opiate prescribing (not afforded to bartenders).
Really interesting piece by @DrRandallBock on how many states decide to restart junkie prisoners on methadone just before they're released back into society, an idea almost tailor-made to get them to start using again.
randoctor.substack.com/p/the…