The Year of Elections An unprecedented number of elections took place in Africa, Asia, and Latin America this year. Their results suggest that prospects for democracy are mixed. Imran Shamsunahar 9 Dec 2024 · 18 min read
Lessons from a Teachers-College Battle Over Free Speech and ‘Decolonization’ University of Western Ontario instructors spent months denouncing an outspoken education student who’d asked awkward questions about Indigenous reconciliation—until a UWO tribunal concluded they’d violated her rights. Jonathan Kay 29 Nov 2024 · 24 min read
An Unscientific American Editor-in-chief Laura Helmuth’s departure from ‘Scientific American’ last week is an object lesson in the dangers of mixing facts and ideology. Michael Shermer 21 Nov 2024 · 12 min read
The Centre Must Rise No centrist who understands the current moment has ever truly laid out their case to the Democratic Party base in the context of a serious political campaign. It’s time to change that. Jack Despain Zhou 13 Nov 2024 · 8 min read
Are Board Gender Quotas a Good Idea? The more we try to limit freedom in the interests of desirable social change, the less effective we will be in the long run, and the greater the number of additional problems we create. Silvia G. Poratelli 9 Dec 2024 · 8 min read
Corporate Cancellations Josh Bornstein appears to view the world as a good Left/bad Right binary. This assumption limits both his diagnosis of the problem and the creativity of his solutions. Holly Lawford-Smith 8 Dec 2024 · 9 min read
Hatred and Indifference in Modern Australia Examining Australia’s leadership vacuum in the wake of the Melbourne synagogue firebombing. Claire Lehmann 8 Dec 2024 · 5 min read
Podcast #262: Interintellect and the Modern-Day Salon Iona Italia talks to globetrotter and intellectual magpie Anna Gat about her modern-day salon, Interintellect. Quillette 6 Dec 2024 · 36 min read
The Recline of the West Since the 18th century, the very process of innovation was uniquely institutionalised in the West. That is now precisely what is being globalised. Lawrence Cahoone 6 Dec 2024 · 18 min read
The Eerie Beauty of ‘Flow’ Gints Zilbalodis’s beautiful dystopian story feels like the start of a new era in cinema, or at least the invitation to one. Roy Wayne Meredith III 4 Dec 2024 · 5 min read