Josh vs the News: How The Odyssey Broke the Internet

Josh vs the News: How The Odyssey Broke the Internet

The way culture-war ideologues have hijacked The Odyssey reveals how social media ruins everything. As go the arguments about the film, so go our conversations about fairness, gender, race and immigration. And so go our elections. Josh recounts the online sh**storm, and draws a long bow from Homer to Christopher Nolan to how civilisations like ours collapse. Read Josh’s column in the Australian Financial Review here: https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/culture-war-ideologues-have-hijacked-christopher-nolan-s-odyssey-20260720-p60gpr and David French’s NYT column here: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/26/opinion/odyssey-christopher-nolan-greek-gods.html Oh, and go back and watch “Just Josh: The Woke Catastrophe of Snow White” here: https://uncomfortableconversations.substack.com/p/just-josh-the-woke-catastrophe-of?utm_source=publication-search

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Is this Child Psychiatrist "Anti-Trans"?

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How Evolution Shaped Men vs Women

How Evolution Shaped Men vs Women

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Do Not Speak Ill of Lindsey Graham's Butthole (and other advice for America)

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Have Kids Become Little Shits?

Have Kids Become Little Shits?

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Race, ICE & the "Woke Right"

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Why We Don’t Believe Boys: Female Grooming & the Male Teen

When Harry was thirteen, his stepmother initiated a sexual relationship with him that lasted for three years and made him a father at fifteen. The horror and confusion of feeling complicit, of being t...

2 Jul 17min

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