Weekly Roundup

Dear Quilletters,

It's nice to see your interest in our Quillette Social in Sydney, taking place in just two weeks. Claire, Scott and I are looking forward to seeing some of you there. And thank you for suggesting other locations for future social events, we've taken all your requests on board.

This week we've got ten fascinating reads that you shouldn't miss out on. From culture wars to literal wars and everything in between, we've got you covered.

Have a great weekend.

Zoe Booth
Community Engagement

Geopolitics

Israel’s Perilous Moment, Then and Now

Herf tells the complicated and often surprising story of the internal political struggles in Western capitals, as well as in the halls of the United Nations, that erupted at the end of the Second World War.

QuilletteSol Stern

Pacifism and Papal Fallibility

The Pope is a perverse sort of pacifist, not a man of peace.

QuilletteBrian Stewart

North America

Hofstadter’s Paranoid Style Revisited

Hofstadter argued that McCarthyism was simply the latest iteration of a longstanding American tradition.

QuilletteMichael J. Totten

Poetry + Cinema

The End of War Poetry

Among literary forms, war poetry is unusual for having enjoyed a universally acknowledged and tightly defined golden age.

QuilletteSimon Evans

Undiminished by Decadence

I grew up in the 1960s and ’70s and I’m happy to report that, for the most part, television and mainstream cinema today are orders of magnitude better than they were in my salad days.

QuilletteKevin Mims

Energy

How We Can Get Clean Energy—What Needs to Be Done?

Editor’s note: this is the third in a three-part series on how we can get clean energy. Part I explains the relationship between Fuel and Human Progress, Part II answers the question “Is Nuclear Power Safe?” and Part III provides an answer to “What Needs to Be Done?” Nuclear power

QuilletteRobert Zubrin

Ideology woes

Domestic Violence Is Not the Result of Patriarchy

Research consistently finds that women in heterosexual relationships tend to perpetrate violence against intimate partners at least as often as men.

QuilletteLimor Gottlieb

Gender Ideology’s True Believers

I spent 25 years in a cultish political sect. Trans activists are giving me déjà vu.

QuilletteKathleen Hayes

Confessions of a Social-Justice Meme Maker

I made pretty pictures that helped keep people enraged and mobilized. Then I asked myself: ‘Why am I doing this?’

QuilletteChristina Buttons

Education

Direct Instruction Works. So Why Is It Controversial?

In 2016, I was sitting in the classroom of a Melbourne school as Dr. Kerry Hempenstall described the early stages of a reading program. He projected a series of letters on the screen. First, he displayed an “f.” “This is an ‘f’,” he said. Then he displayed an “f” written

QuilletteGreg Ashman

Podcast

‎27 Rouge: A Quillette Podcast: VII: Ed Latimore On Boxing, Stoicism, and Falling in Love with a Process on Apple Podcasts

‎Show 27 Rouge: A Quillette Podcast, Ep VII: Ed Latimore On Boxing, Stoicism, and Falling in Love with a Process - 11 May 2022

Apple Podcasts

From Around the Web

Australia Votes: Federal Election Day 2022

Australians head to the polling booths today to cast their votes for The Federal election on Saturday 21st May 2022

The Sydney Morning Herald

Double Jeopardy: Princeton Prepares To Axe Star Professor Who Raised Hell Over Woke Lunacy - Washington Free Beacon

Princeton University is planning to fire one of the most distinguished classics professors in the country, Joshua Katz, after his criticism of the school’s racial politics made him the target of student protests and the subject of two separate university investigations.

Washington Free Beaconaaron-sibarium

How Australia Saved Thousands of Lives While Covid Killed a Million Americans

The United States and Australia share similar demographics, but their pandemic death rates point to very different cultures of trust.

NYTimesBy