Courage and Self-Care Why are we encouraged to applaud the bravery of those who quit under pressure? Craig Clifford 11 Jun 2024 · 8 min read Jackson Simmer on Unsplash.
France’s Founding Fathers: A Review of ‘House of Lilies’ In a new book, Justine Firnhaber-Baker tells the story of the Capetian dynasty (987–1328), whose rulers stitched a set of medieval duchies and counties into a single kingdom. Charlotte Allen 26 Jun 2024 · 20 min read
The War Against Truth It has long been a cliché that China is inscrutable to foreigners, but it is also becoming inscrutable to itself. Aaron Sarin 26 Jun 2024 · 9 min read
Podcast #240: Parsi Bombay, Then and Now Iona Italia talks to Nev March about her historical novel, Murder in Old Bombay, and about the Zoroastrians of Bombay both past and present. Quillette 26 Jun 2024 · 43 min read
What Heterodox Feminism Is Not It's not enough to be a dissenter: it also matters what you are dissenting from and what you're getting out of it. Holly Lawford-Smith 25 Jun 2024 · 9 min read
The Roots of Progressive Radicalism: Nellie Bowles vs. Musa al-Gharbi In two new books, a journalist and an academic offer competing explanations for the extremist ideological tendencies within left-wing cultural, academic, activist, and political institutions. Jonathan Kay 25 Jun 2024 · 16 min read
Sin and Social Science Glenn Loury’s startlingly frank confessional memoir offers a complex portrait of a brilliant scholar and a profoundly flawed man. John Lloyd 24 Jun 2024 · 14 min read