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The Russia Report

Published by John Lloyd

A report released this July by the UK’s House of Commons Intelligence and Security Committee is more concerning than its relatively restrained prose appears to indicate. It shows us...

August 12, 2020
Politics, Russia, Security, Spotlight, UK, World Affairs

Top Stories

Lebanon’s Malignant State

Published by Brian Stewart

Some 30 years after the end of its dirty civil war, Lebanon has cultivated a well-developed preference for discretion. One can only imagine the collective gasp of its political...

August 12, 2020
Middle East, Politics, Top Stories, World Affairs

Look Who’s Talking About Educational Equity

Published by Lyell Asher

In the aftermath of the death of George Floyd, college presidents scrambled to issue condemnations of racism, police brutality, and white supremacy. They often buttressed those condemnations with promises...

August 12, 2020
Activism, Education, Top Stories

Chinese Science Fiction’s Disaster Dystopias

Published by Joel Kotkin

The Great China dream will replace all private dreams. ~Ma Jian, China Dream In Ma Jian’s new novel, the protagonist, Ma Daode, may be a corrupt, womanizing local official, but...

August 11, 2020
Books, China, Top Stories, World Affairs

How to Fight the Enemies of Academic Freedom

Published by Sergiu Klainerman

According to a 2019 Cato Institute study, 75 percent of immigrants who are American citizens are very proud to be American compared to only 69 percent of native-born Americans....

August 10, 2020
Education, Free Speech, Top Stories

George Orwell and the Struggle against Inevitable Bias

Published by Adam Wakeling

In the bleak post-war Britain of October 1945, an essay by George Orwell appeared in the first edition of Polemic. Edited by abstract artist and ex-Communist Hugh Slater, the...

August 8, 2020
Journalism, Politics, Psychology, Top Stories

Getting Rid of Bar Exams Won’t Help Anyone

Published by Max Hyams

For years, affirmative-action proponents have urged colleges and universities to reduce (or eliminate) their reliance on standardized tests as a basis for admission. The COVID-19 pandemic has opened up...

August 8, 2020
Crime, Diversity, Law, Top Stories

At a Time Like This, the West Could Use Its Own Vladimir Voinovich

Published by Cathy Young

Two years ago, the world lost a great Russian novelist and essayist whose eye for the surreal would have made him a perfect witness to the current moment—and whose...

August 7, 2020
Books, Top Stories

Lord Over All: Alexander the Great’s Conquered World of Priests and Pagans

Published by F.S. Naiden

Alexander’s Europe emerged from a cataclysm. For many millions of years, North Africa’s Atlas Mountains had reached north across what later became the Strait of Gibraltar and merged with...

August 5, 2020
Books, Top Stories

Podcast

Podcast

PODCAST 103: Evolutionary Biologist (and new Quillette Managing Editor) Colin Wright on the State of Academic Science, Gender, and His Latest Career Move

Quillette Managing Editor Colin Wright explains why scientists no longer always feel free to speak up in the face of pseudoscience, and why he gave up his hunt for...

August 8, 2020
Podcast

PODCAST 102: Rob Henderson on Why Upper Middle Class Whites Have Gone Woke

Quillette contributor and Cambridge PhD student Rob Henderson on how cancel culture became one of America’s most successful exports and why upper middle class whites have embraced the woke...

July 31, 2020

Books

Books, China, Top Stories, World Affairs

Chinese Science Fiction’s Disaster Dystopias

The Great China dream will replace all private dreams. ~Ma Jian, China Dream In Ma Jian’s new novel, the protagonist, Ma Daode, may be a corrupt, womanizing local official, but...

August 11, 2020
Books, Top Stories

At a Time Like This, the West Could Use Its Own Vladimir Voinovich

Two years ago, the world lost a great Russian novelist and essayist whose eye for the surreal would have made him a perfect witness to the current moment—and whose...

August 7, 2020

Must read

Think Cancel Culture Doesn’t Exist? My Own ‘Lived Experience’ Says Otherwise

Published by Colin Wright

Given the moral authority that many progressives assign to the lessons of “lived experience,” it seems counterintuitive that they are the ones now strenuously downplaying the scourge of cancel...

July 30, 2020
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August 12, 2020

Lebanon’s Malignant State

Some 30 years after the end of its dirty civil war, Lebanon has cultivated a well-developed preference for discretion....

by Brian Stewart
August 12, 2020

The Russia Report

A report released this July by the UK’s House of Commons Intelligence and Security Committee is more concerning than...

by John Lloyd
August 12, 2020

Look Who’s Talking About Educational Equity

In the aftermath of the death of George Floyd, college presidents scrambled to issue condemnations of racism, police brutality,...

by Lyell Asher
August 11, 2020

Chinese Science Fiction’s Disaster Dystopias

The Great China dream will replace all private dreams. ~Ma Jian, China Dream In Ma Jian’s new novel, the protagonist,...

by Joel Kotkin
August 10, 2020

How to Fight the Enemies of Academic Freedom

According to a 2019 Cato Institute study, 75 percent of immigrants who are American citizens are very proud to...

by Sergiu Klainerman
August 8, 2020

George Orwell and the Struggle against Inevitable Bias

In the bleak post-war Britain of October 1945, an essay by George Orwell appeared in the first edition of...

by Adam Wakeling
August 8, 2020

Getting Rid of Bar Exams Won’t Help Anyone

For years, affirmative-action proponents have urged colleges and universities to reduce (or eliminate) their reliance on standardized tests as...

by Max Hyams
August 5, 2020

At the NHS and BBC, Important Steps Toward Restoring Balance in the Gender Debate

In recent months, a sense has emerged that the tide might finally be starting to turn in the gender...

by Julian Vigo
August 3, 2020

The Woke Left v. the Alt-Right: A New Study Shows They’re More Alike Than Either...

A common criticism of the ultra-progressive Left is that its culture warriors now resemble the right-wing ideological enforcers of...

by Zaid Jilani
August 3, 2020

What Computer-Generated Language Tells Us About Our Own Ideological Thinking

Earlier this year, the San Francisco-based artificial-intelligence research laboratory OpenAI built GPT-3, a 175-billion-parameter text generator. Compared to its...

by Cameron Harwick
August 1, 2020

The Futility of the Conservative War on Pornography

As we head into a tumultuous US election season, it is worth remembering that political parties can get trapped...

by Christopher J. Ferguson
August 1, 2020

Twilight of Democracy—A Review

A review of Twilight of Democracy by Anne Applebaum, Doubleday (July 2020), 224 pages. Historian and journalist Anne Applebaum’s...

by John Lloyd
August 1, 2020

The Piety of the Impious

Writing with not a little insight, commentators have observed a deeply intriguing dimension to the protests currently convulsing the...

by Scott Buchanan
July 31, 2020

Journalism’s Death by a Thousand Tweets

Upon further reflection, it’s clear that the broken system is ad-driven media on the Internet. It simply doesn’t serve...

by Thomas Moller-Nielsen
July 31, 2020

Lessons from the Last Empire of Iran

By the mid-620s, the Persian king Khusro II had conquered most of the Eastern Roman Empire. A final push...

by Michael Bonner
July 29, 2020

Our Oppressive Moment

As one of the signatories to the much-discussed “Open Letter” in Harper’s magazine, I’ve been bemused by the objection...

by John McWhorter
July 29, 2020

I Was Invited to Testify on Energy Policy. Then Democrats Didn’t Let Me Speak

Today, shortly after giving expert testimony to Congress about energy policy, I had the startling experience of being smeared...

by Michael Shellenberger
July 29, 2020

Understanding Totalitarianism

In recent years, amid concern about a possible resurgence of totalitarianism, a number of books and articles have appeared...

by Brent Holley
July 29, 2020

Cultural Revolution in the Renaissance?

It is a striking feature of our historical moment that vast numbers of cultural institutions, universities and professional associations...

by James Hankins
July 27, 2020

The Myth of Pervasive Misogyny

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. ~Timothy Leary Many feminists and progressives argue that the...

by Cory Clark and Bo Winegard
July 27, 2020

Remembering Cancel Culture’s 40-Year-Old Stepfather

The worst-case scenario for a film that falls afoul of the morality police is that its release is scrapped...

by Adrian Nguyen
July 27, 2020

Princeton University is One of the Least Racist Institutions in the World

Reflecting on recent events in Princeton starting with the July 4th “Faculty Letter” to the president, Professor Joshua Katz’s...

by Sergiu Klainerman
July 26, 2020

Humanity’s Great Urban Adventure Didn’t Begin With Greece and Rome

The spectacular story of the growth and withering away of ancient Mediterranean urbanism is often drowned out by the...

by Greg Woolf
July 24, 2020

Of Heroic Deeds and Hysterical Masses

Perpetual progress is no more possible than perpetual motion, an axiom unwittingly vindicated by the benighted throngs that currently...

by David A. Eisenberg

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Podcast

Podcast

PODCAST 103: Evolutionary Biologist (and new Quillette Managing Editor) Colin Wright on the State of Academic Science, Gender, and His Latest Career Move

Quillette Managing Editor Colin Wright explains why scientists no longer always feel free to speak up in the face of pseudoscience, and why he gave up his hunt for...

August 8, 2020
Podcast

PODCAST 102: Rob Henderson on Why Upper Middle Class Whites Have Gone Woke

Quillette contributor and Cambridge PhD student Rob Henderson on how cancel culture became one of America’s most successful exports and why upper middle class whites have embraced the woke...

July 31, 2020

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Bad Vibrations: The Lies Universities Tell Their Students about Sex

Published by Samantha Harris and Michael Thad Allen

Universities today bombard students with two contradictory messages about sex, effectively encouraging them to carry a dildo in their pocket, while lugging a fainting couch behind them. On the...

June 17, 2020
Education, Recommended, Sex

Woody Allen’s ‘Apropos of Nothing’—A Review

Published by David Evanier

A Review of Apropos of Nothing by Woody Allen, Arcade Publishing (March 2020) 400 pages Rolling Stone has pronounced Woody Allen’s new memoir, Apropos of Nothing, “horrendously ugly.” The...

April 21, 2020
Books, Recommended, Review

The Coming Age of Dispersion

Published by Joel Kotkin

As of this writing, the long-term effects of the coronavirus pandemic remain uncertain. But one possible consequence is an acceleration of the end of the megacity era. In its...

March 25, 2020
COVID-19, Economics, Health, Politics, Recommended
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