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The Teaching Problem

The reason most teaching is bad is that most teaching follows a demonstrably bad model.

John Tagg 14 Jul 2025 · 17 min read

Simon Baron-Cohen is a middle-aged white man. He is wearing a microphone and stands in front of an image of neurons.

Invisible Disability and Hidden Potential

Sir Simon Baron-Cohen: “When you systemise, you try to analyse the rules, the events that happen with some regularity, and causal relationships, so you can identify predictable patterns.”

Hannah Gal 12 Jul 2025 · 16 min read

President Trump holds up a piece of paper with his giant signature on it. He is surrounded by people clapping.

A Tariff Time-Bomb

A critical part of the One Big Beautiful Bill’s budget equation may evaporate with a judicial pen stroke in the very near future.

Phillip W. Magness 15 Jul 2025 · 9 min read

Glamourising Violence at Glastonbury

John Aziz 4 Jul 2025 · 8 min read

It Should Never Have Come to This

Robert Wintemute 16 Jun 2025 · 16 min read

Is the University Of Austin Betraying Its Founding Principles?

Ellie Avishai 16 May 2025 · 15 min read

Israel’s Perfect Failure

Uri Bar-Joseph 7 May 2025 · 19 min read

Against the Tyranny of Opinionated Ignorance

Yuki Zeman 24 Apr 2025 · 5 min read

A Cartoonish View of History

Benny Morris 23 Apr 2025 · 18 min read

President Trump holds up a piece of paper with his giant signature on it. He is surrounded by people clapping.

A Tariff Time-Bomb

A critical part of the One Big Beautiful Bill’s budget equation may evaporate with a judicial pen stroke in the very near future.

Phillip W. Magness 15 Jul 2025 · 9 min read

Rows of empty wooden seats in a lecture theatre.

The Teaching Problem

The reason most teaching is bad is that most teaching follows a demonstrably bad model.

John Tagg 14 Jul 2025 · 17 min read

Simon Baron-Cohen is a middle-aged white man. He is wearing a microphone and stands in front of an image of neurons.

Invisible Disability and Hidden Potential

Sir Simon Baron-Cohen: “When you systemise, you try to analyse the rules, the events that happen with some regularity, and causal relationships, so you can identify predictable patterns.”

Hannah Gal 12 Jul 2025 · 16 min read

Glamourising Violence at Glastonbury

John Aziz 4 Jul 2025 · 8 min read

A man in Irish flag balaclava and Palestine flag.

It Should Never Have Come to This

Robert Wintemute 16 Jun 2025 · 16 min read

A crowd of trans rights activists with banners listen to a speaker wrapped in a trans flag.

Is the University Of Austin Betraying Its Founding Principles?

Ellie Avishai 16 May 2025 · 15 min read

Around fifty faculty in a professional photo. In academic gowns. The mayor is in a suit, he sits in a wheelchair smiling.

Israel’s Perfect Failure

Uri Bar-Joseph 7 May 2025 · 19 min read

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Against the Tyranny of Opinionated Ignorance

Yuki Zeman 24 Apr 2025 · 5 min read

Against the Tyranny of Opinionated Ignorance

A Cartoonish View of History

Benny Morris 23 Apr 2025 · 18 min read

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Masculinity and Political Extremism with Sociologist Josh Roose | Quillette Cetera Ep. 49

Zoe Booth 14 Jul 2025 · 12 min read

The First Journalists

The First Journalists

Iona Italia, Quillette 11 Jul 2025 · 60 min read

Dr Nafees Alam is a smiley brown man with a thick beard and eyebrows, a cool haircut and diamond studs in his ear

Podcast #292: Social Work Without Stereotypes

Jonathan Kay 7 Jul 2025 · 21 min read

Podcast #291: Science vs Māori Knowledge

Podcast #291: Science vs Māori Knowledge

Quillette, Kendall Clements 27 Jun 2025 · 47 min read

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Blasphemy, Censorship, and the Future of Free Expression in Britain

Pamela Paresky, Toby Young 4 Jul 2025 · 16 min read

Mamdani is a young light-skinned Indian-looking man in a suit. He speaks into a microphone.

Gentrifying the Intifada

John Aziz 27 Jun 2025 · 8 min read

Podcast #290: The Wars Before the War

Podcast #290: The Wars Before the War

Quillette 19 Jun 2025 · 14 min read

Danial Taghaddos in a grey suit and the flag of Imperial Iran, with a lion holding a sword and a sun.

Discussing the Iran–Israel War with an Iranian Dissident | Quillette Cetera Ep. 48

Zoe Booth 18 Jun 2025 · 23 min read

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Disco Inferno

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Conflicting Visions of Peace

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Hell in North Germany

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The Twelve Day War: Truths and Consequences

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Glamourising Violence at Glastonbury

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