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“Too Much Science in the Curriculum”

“Too Much Science in the Curriculum”

Tragicomic scenes from reparations-based medicine.

Steve Salerno 1 May 2026 · 18 min read

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Radical Lessons in Solidarity and Resistance

The son of Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers has written a perceptive, fascinating, and rather sad book about his lonely life as the child of violent revolutionaries.

Ron Capshaw 29 Apr 2026 · 11 min read

How the Weak Prevail

How the Weak Prevail

From ISIS to the IRGC, how groups with sacred commitments outlast adversaries with far greater firepower.

Scott Atran 2 May 2026 · 8 min read

A Note from the Editor in Chief Newsletter

A Note from the Editor in Chief

The Reading Room

How the Weak Prevail

How the Weak Prevail

From ISIS to the IRGC, how groups with sacred commitments outlast adversaries with far greater firepower.

Scott Atran 2 May 2026 · 8 min read

“Too Much Science in the Curriculum”

“Too Much Science in the Curriculum”

Tragicomic scenes from reparations-based medicine.

Steve Salerno 1 May 2026 · 18 min read

Black and white photo of Ayers-Dohrn family with two parents and two children and Zayd Ayers Dohrn as an adult.

Radical Lessons in Solidarity and Resistance

The son of Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers has written a perceptive, fascinating, and rather sad book about his lonely life as the child of violent revolutionaries.

Ron Capshaw 29 Apr 2026 · 11 min read

A Note from the Editor in Chief Newsletter

Deeply Problematic Newsletter

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What Did You Think Decolonisation Meant?

Maarten Boudry 20 Apr 2026 · 7 min read

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The Wrong Man

Michael J. Totten 17 Apr 2026 · 11 min read

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Francesca Albanese and the Perversion of Academia

Norman J.W. Goda 2 Apr 2026 · 12 min read

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The Many Roots of Our Suffering: Reflections on Robert Trivers (1943–2026)

Steven Pinker 25 Mar 2026 · 16 min read

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Why Israel Can’t Live With a Nuclear Iran: Gadi Taub

Pamela Paresky, Gadi Taub 29 Apr 2026 · 1 min read

Girls in an Online World

Girls in an Online World

Iona Italia, Quillette, Freya India 24 Apr 2026 · 1 min read

Documenting a Decade of Academic Meltdowns

Documenting a Decade of Academic Meltdowns

Quillette 21 Apr 2026 · 3 min read

Podcast #333: The Search for Truth

Podcast #333: The Search for Truth

Quillette, Michael Shermer, Iona Italia 9 Apr 2026 · 1 min read

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From Zionist to Hamas Apologist

Benny Morris 29 Apr 2026 · 21 min read

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British Columbia’s UNDRIP Fiasco

Jonathan Kay 28 Apr 2026 · 6 min read

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Nixon Was Right

Aaron Sarin 28 Apr 2026 · 10 min read

This Is Not the 1970s

This Is Not the 1970s

Milton Ezrati 27 Apr 2026 · 5 min read

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Chernobyl Forty Years On

Marco Visscher 26 Apr 2026 · 12 min read

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The Roots of Recession

Joel Kotkin 24 Apr 2026 · 11 min read

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Statecraft and Seduction

Ron Capshaw 23 Apr 2026 · 9 min read

Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor

Quillette 23 Apr 2026 · 2 min read

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In the Air Tonight

Jacob Bielecki 23 Apr 2026 · 12 min read

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Can Blackface Be Anti-Racist?

Jacques Berlinerblau 22 Apr 2026 · 10 min read

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Apocalypse Soon?

Henry I. Miller 22 Apr 2026 · 8 min read

Canada’s 215 Imaginary Martyrs

Canada’s 215 Imaginary Martyrs

Jonathan Kay 21 Apr 2026 · 9 min read

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The Many Roots of Our Suffering: Reflections on Robert Trivers (1943–2026)

The First Post-Ideological Bedouin State

Trump, Tehran, and the China Calculus

Art and Culture

In the Air Tonight

Infinite Ingenuity: Andy Weir’s Optimistic Vision in ‘Project Hail Mary’

Rohmer at Camelot

Politics

How the Weak Prevail

Nixon Was Right

This Is Not the 1970s

Narrated

The Many Faces of Tucker Carlson

Erasing the Word “Woman”

Islamism: Shooting the Messenger

Education

The Professor and the Pariah

Addressing the Academic Skew

Francesca Albanese and the Perversion of Academia

History

Nixon Was Right

Statecraft and Seduction

The UN’s Historically Selective Denunciation of Human Bondage

Podcast

Why Israel Can’t Live With a Nuclear Iran: Gadi Taub

Girls in an Online World

Documenting a Decade of Academic Meltdowns

Science / Tech

“Too Much Science in the Curriculum”

Apocalypse Soon?

Move 37 and the Coming Mindhack

Activism

The Gender Identity Debate

Capitalism’s Paradox

The Infinite Reopening of History

Free Speech

Can Blackface Be Anti-Racist?

Bertrand Russell’s Cancellation and the Ongoing Battle Over Campus Speech

Mobbed on Campus, Vindicated in Court

Books

Radical Lessons in Solidarity and Resistance

The Roots of Recession

Statecraft and Seduction

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“Too Much Science in the Curriculum”

Rohmer at Camelot

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