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Relearning How to Read in the Age of Social Media

Published by Joe Nutt

However amusing the meme or moving the pictures, reading—not gazing—remains the cornerstone of our civilisation. People who don’t actively seek out books or articles inevitably lead more restricted lives...

November 30, 2020
Literature, Social Media, Spotlight

Top Stories

Reinventing Racism—A Review

Published by Samuel Kronen

A review of Reinventing Racism by Jonathan D. Church. Rowman & Littlefield, 250 pages (December 2020) If the release of Robin DiAngelo’s 2018 book White Fragility: Why It’s So...

November 30, 2020
Activism, BLM, Culture Wars, Identity, Politics, Review, Top Stories

Will Biden Resurrect the Iran Deal?

Published by Art Keller

President Elect Joe Biden has stated his intention to return the United States to the multilateral deal hatched during the Obama administration to constrain Iran’s nuclear program in return...

November 29, 2020
Middle East, Security, Top Stories

I’m a Professor from an Immigrant Family. Please Stop Telling Me That My University Is Racist

Published by Theodore Pennington

On June 24th, the University of Calgary leadership team published its response to an open letter, dated June 9th, from hundreds of students, alumni, and faculty. The original letter...

November 29, 2020
Canada, Culture Wars, Diversity, Diversity Debate, Education, Free Speech, Identity, Regressive Left, Top Stories

Desperation and the Quest for Control: The Dangers of Alternative Medicine

Published by S. Stiles

I am a skeptic and a curmudgeon, so I was surprised when a friend of 30 years asked if she could add me to her “Reiki Grid.” A Reiki...

November 27, 2020
Health, Science, Science / Tech, Top Stories, Women

The Videogame That Takes Us Inside the Hell of a Nazi-Run World

Published by Carlos Miguel del Callar

For almost 20 years, Hearts of Iron has been a prominent franchise in the videogame genre known as “grand strategy.” In these games, players don’t command individual characters or...

November 26, 2020
Entertainment, Games, Top Stories, World Affairs

Robin DiAngelo’s Misreading of Michel Foucault

Published by Jonathan Church

This article is lightly adapted from the author’s new book Reinventing Racism: Why ‘White Fragility’ Is the Wrong Way to Think about Racial Inequality published by Rowman and Littlefield....

November 25, 2020
BLM, Culture Wars, Diversity, Identity, Philosophy, Politics, Top Stories

A Brief History of China’s One-Child Policy

Published by Aaron Sarin

Liu Fang once had the job of policing the women in her village. She made sure that none of them gave birth to a second child unless their first...

November 25, 2020
China, History, Politics, Top Stories, World Affairs

A Loss of Direction and the Rise of Populisms

Published by Joseph B. Juhasz and András Tóth

Since the end of World War II, we have mostly been living in the Age of Moderation—an epoch characterized by middle-of-the-road politics, in which a moderate Left and Right...

November 25, 2020
Diversity, Europe, Immigration, Politics, Top Stories, World Affairs
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Podcast

PODCAST 125: Yale School of Public Health Professor David Paltiel on Computer Modelling of COVID-19 Vaccination Programs

Published by Quillette Magazine

Jonathan Kay speaks to public health expert David Paltiel about his newly published mathematical models, which show how mass vaccination could help end the COVID-19 pandemic

November 28, 2020
Podcast

PODCAST 124: Shelby Steele, Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, on ‘What Killed Michael Brown?’

Published by Quillette Magazine

Author Shelby Steele speaks to Quillette’s Jonathan Kay about white guilt, the ‘poetic truth’ of Ferguson, the dead end of racial grievances, and the creative process of working with...

November 23, 2020
Podcast

PODCAST 123: Washington-Based Journalist Brad Polumbo on LGBT Politics in the Pre- and Post-Trump Eras

Published by Quillette Magazine

Brad Polumbo speaks to Quillette’s Jonathan Kay about life as a gay conservative journalist in Washington, D.C., the politics of outing Republican lawmakers, the complex political tensions between LGB...

November 20, 2020
Podcast

PODCAST 122: Former Harvard Medical School Dean Jeffrey Flier, on This Week’s Good News About the Hunt for a COVID-19 Vaccine

Published by Quillette Magazine

Jeffrey Flier—physician, endocrinologist, researcher, and 21st Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Harvard University—speaks to Quillette’s Jonathan Kay about Pfizer’s recent announcement that its candidate COVID-19 vaccine was...

November 14, 2020
Podcast

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Gender Activists Are Trying to Cancel My Book. Why is Silicon Valley Helping Them?

Published by Abigail Shrier

The day after I tweeted about the ongoing attempts to block sales of my book, Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters, I was stuck on the phone...

November 7, 2020
Activism, Books, Diversity Debate, Health, Identity, Must Reads, Sex, Top Stories, Women

In case you missed it

November 30, 2020

Reinventing Racism—A Review

A review of Reinventing Racism by Jonathan D. Church. Rowman & Littlefield, 250 pages (December 2020) If the release...

by Samuel Kronen
November 30, 2020

Relearning How to Read in the Age of Social Media

However amusing the meme or moving the pictures, reading—not gazing—remains the cornerstone of our civilisation. People who don’t actively...

by Joe Nutt
November 29, 2020

Will Biden Resurrect the Iran Deal?

President Elect Joe Biden has stated his intention to return the United States to the multilateral deal hatched during...

by Art Keller
November 29, 2020

I’m a Professor from an Immigrant Family. Please Stop Telling Me That My University...

On June 24th, the University of Calgary leadership team published its response to an open letter, dated June 9th,...

by Theodore Pennington
November 27, 2020

Desperation and the Quest for Control: The Dangers of Alternative Medicine

I am a skeptic and a curmudgeon, so I was surprised when a friend of 30 years asked if...

by S. Stiles
November 26, 2020

The Videogame That Takes Us Inside the Hell of a Nazi-Run World

For almost 20 years, Hearts of Iron has been a prominent franchise in the videogame genre known as “grand...

by Carlos Miguel del Callar
November 25, 2020

Robin DiAngelo’s Misreading of Michel Foucault

This article is lightly adapted from the author’s new book Reinventing Racism: Why ‘White Fragility’ Is the Wrong Way...

by Jonathan Church
November 25, 2020

A Brief History of China’s One-Child Policy

Liu Fang once had the job of policing the women in her village. She made sure that none of...

by Aaron Sarin
November 25, 2020

A Loss of Direction and the Rise of Populisms

Since the end of World War II, we have mostly been living in the Age of Moderation—an epoch characterized...

by Joseph B. Juhasz and András Tóth
November 24, 2020

Shoulders of Giants

Editor’s note: This is an excerpt from Chapter One of The Power of Explicit Teaching and Direct Instruction by Greg...

by Greg Ashman
November 24, 2020

Freak Power: The Ballot or the Bomb—A Review

Fifty years ago, in a small mountain town in Colorado, a young writer led a band of misfits against...

by David S. Wills
November 23, 2020

Retracting a Controversial Paper Won’t Help Female Scientists

Imagine yourself as a newly hired female assistant professor and the delight you feel when you learn that your...

by Tania Reynolds
November 23, 2020

Why Is Scientific Illiteracy So Acceptable?

In the mid-1980s, when I taught a Physics for Poets class at Yale University, I was dumbstruck when I...

by Lawrence M. Krauss
November 22, 2020

The Life and Death of Unus Annus

We live our lives taking each second for granted. But what would you do if you knew how much...

by Nathan Eatwell
November 22, 2020

The Fragility of Modern Education in the Time of COVID-19

Modern education is arguably the most massive feat of social engineering ever attempted by humanity and one of the...

by David C. Geary
November 22, 2020

On the Trail of Delusion—A Review

A review of On the Trail of Delusion—Jim Garrison: The Great Accuser by Fred Litwin. NorthernBlues Books, 466 pages...

by Gerald Posner
November 22, 2020

Kin, Tribes, and the Dark Side of Identity

“We should poison their water holes!” This was the first thing my father said when I called him after...

by Robert Lynch
November 20, 2020

Making the World Safe for Autocracy

Hong Kong has long ceased to fit the description given it by an envoy of Queen Victoria as a...

by Brian Stewart
November 19, 2020

OnlyFans and the Changing Face of Pornography

Late last week, I warily opened the latest article to be written about OnlyFans, a platform that allows creators...

by Ariel Anderssen
November 19, 2020

Victimhood or Development?

On October 20th, Brown University professor of economics Glenn Loury and Columbia University professor of linguistics John McWhorter were...

by Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, Shelby Steele and Eli Steele
November 18, 2020

On the Cusp of a Vaccine—and a Historic Scientific Triumph

More than a century separated the first wave of Spanish flu in 1918 from the emergence of COVID-19 in...

by Quillette Magazine
November 18, 2020

Commemorating Mary

I’ve seen several interesting discussions about the controversial new Mary Wollstonecraft sculpture recently unveiled at Newington Green, the London...

by Lona Manning
November 17, 2020

Totally Under Control—A Review

Alex Gibney’s Totally Under Control revisits a time, the legacy of which still haunts us. Spanning the period between...

by Razib Khan
November 17, 2020

Liberalism—Decline or Survival

The world is still coming to terms with Charles Darwin. Denial of evolution is usually associated with the evangelical...

by Sam Ashworth-Hayes
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podcast

PODCAST 125: Yale School of Public Health Professor David Paltiel on Computer Modelling of COVID-19 Vaccination Programs

Published by Quillette Magazine

Jonathan Kay speaks to public health expert David Paltiel about his newly published mathematical models, which show how mass vaccination could help end the COVID-19 pandemic

November 28, 2020
Podcast

PODCAST 124: Shelby Steele, Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, on ‘What Killed Michael Brown?’

Published by Quillette Magazine

Author Shelby Steele speaks to Quillette’s Jonathan Kay about white guilt, the ‘poetic truth’ of Ferguson, the dead end of racial grievances, and the creative process of working with...

November 23, 2020
Podcast

PODCAST 123: Washington-Based Journalist Brad Polumbo on LGBT Politics in the Pre- and Post-Trump Eras

Published by Quillette Magazine

Brad Polumbo speaks to Quillette’s Jonathan Kay about life as a gay conservative journalist in Washington, D.C., the politics of outing Republican lawmakers, the complex political tensions between LGB...

November 20, 2020
Podcast

PODCAST 122: Former Harvard Medical School Dean Jeffrey Flier, on This Week’s Good News About the Hunt for a COVID-19 Vaccine

Published by Quillette Magazine

Jeffrey Flier—physician, endocrinologist, researcher, and 21st Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Harvard University—speaks to Quillette’s Jonathan Kay about Pfizer’s recent announcement that its candidate COVID-19 vaccine was...

November 14, 2020
Podcast

China Syndrome

The China Syndrome Part IV: Did China Fudge its Data?

Published by Philippe Lemoine

Note: This is the concluding part of a four-part series of essays looking in detail at China’s role in the COVID-19 pandemic. Part One looked at the circumstances surrounding...

September 6, 2020
China, China Syndrome Series, COVID-19, Health, Long Read, World Affairs

The China Syndrome Part III: Wet Markets and BioLabs

Published by Philippe Lemoine

Note: This is the third part of a four-part series of essays looking in detail at China’s role in the COVID-19 pandemic. Part One looked at the circumstances surrounding...

September 2, 2020
China, China Syndrome Series, COVID-19, Health, Long Read, World Affairs

The China Syndrome Part II: Transmission and Response

Published by Philippe Lemoine

Note: This is the second part of a four-part series of essays looking in detail at China’s role in the COVID-19 pandemic. Part One looked at the circumstances surrounding...

August 29, 2020
China, China Syndrome Series, COVID-19, Health, Long Read, World Affairs

The China Syndrome Part I: Outbreak

Published by Philippe Lemoine

Note: This is the first part of a four-part series of essays looking in detail at China’s role in the COVID-19 pandemic. This part looks at the circumstances surrounding...

August 24, 2020
China, China Syndrome Series, COVID-19, Health, Long Read, Top Stories, World Affairs

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I Signed Up to Study Sexual Health. What I Got Was Gender Ideology, Fetishism, and Porn

Published by Tim Courtois

I am not a conspiracy theorist. And as recently as a year and a half ago, if someone had told me the things I am reporting here, I would...

October 31, 2020
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Rallying to Protect Admissions Standards at America’s Best Public High School

Published by Asra Q. Nomani and Glenn Miller

This week, a group of about 200 students, parents, alumni, and concerned local residents flooded the sidewalk in front of America’s number-one-ranked public high school—Thomas Jefferson High School for...

September 23, 2020
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This week, Vox published an article titled “How Beethoven’s 5th Symphony put the classism in classical music.” “Since its 1808 premiere, audiences have interpreted [its opening progression] as a...

September 19, 2020
Art, Culture, Culture Wars, Entertainment, Music, Must Reads, Recommended

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