Red Reign
A thrash-metal classic turns forty.
Noel Yaxley
· 9 min read
Women’s Sport or ‘Transformational’ Activism: It Can’t Be Both
A U.S.-based Australian Rules Football league allows trans-identified men to play on women’s teams. When one turned out to be a convicted sex criminal, no one wanted to talk about it.
Jonathan Kay
· 13 min read
The Autism Epidemic That Wasn’t
The Trump administration’s scientific illiteracy about rates of autism is going to have catastrophic results.
Geoffrey C. Kabat
· 6 min read
Net Zero Won't Fix Climate Change. Technology Will
Treat a warming planet as an engineering problem rather than a moral failing, and it starts to look solvable.
John Aziz
· 9 min read
A Death on Another's Head
We should worry about the perverse incentives created by elevating a self-killer and punishing his enemies.
Jason Manning
· 12 min read
Stories You Don’t Want to Be Told
A new exhibition curated by Lars von Trier provides a fascinating look at who and what has influenced one of the world’s most prodigiously gifted and provocative filmmakers.
Jaspreet Singh Boparai
· 30 min read
AI and the Bioweapon Threat
The knowledge and infrastructure needed to engineer a pandemic pathogen, once confined to a handful of elite military and civilian research institutions, are quietly becoming more accessible.
Henry I. Miller
· 7 min read
Drink More Ovaltine
The jokes we told in a Venezuelan prison.
Joseph G. St. Clair
· 11 min read
The Troubled State of Sociology
Increasingly, sociologists are expected to avoid research questions and theories that involve the role of culture in shaping societal inequalities.
Ashley Rubin
· 15 min read
The Truth About the Gender Pay Gap with David Maywald | Quillette Cetera Episode 70
David Maywald on the female wage premium, the rites of passage boys no longer have, and why the science on sex differences keeps losing to ideology.
Zoe Sankey, David Maywald
· 37 min read
L’Affaire Shirer Revisited
The rise, fall, and rise again of one of the 20th century’s most important journalists.
Thomas Doherty
· 10 min read
The Beautiful and Banned
There is a rather large difference between the banned books promoted by celebrities and genuinely transgressive and provocative writing.
Josh Allan
· 5 min read
Creeping Annexation
Israeli governments have never decided what to do with the West Bank—so the settlers have begun deciding for them.
Benny Morris
· 9 min read
‘Economic Vandalism’: Geoff Wilson on Labor’s War on Australian Aspiration
Fund manager Geoff Wilson tells Claire Lehmann that Labor’s new capital gains tax will drive Australian capital out of growth companies and into franked dividends—and push a generation of founders offshore.
Claire Lehmann
· 27 min read