The Middle East Powder Keg
Fragile ceasefires are holding for now, but the volatile region may be headed for another explosion next year.
Benny Morris
· 14 min read
Podcast #312: Ancient Christianities: The First 500 Years
Jonathan Kay speaks with scholar Paula Fredriksen, whose new book describes the theological diversity that existed among Christian communities before Nicene Christianity was adopted as Rome’s state religion in the fourth century.
Quillette
· 2 min read
Artificial Barriers to Intelligence
How AI training produces evasion over engagement.
P. Stanley
· 9 min read
Where Have All the Cultures Gone?
The homogenisation of culture begins with the loss of language.
Tristan S. Rapp
· 10 min read
Exposing the Qatar Lobby: Chama Mechtaly on Islamism, Censorship, and the West | Quillette Cetera Ep. 57
How Qatar's ideological reach—from think tanks to media—has stifled dissent and enabled Islamism in the West.
Zoe Booth, Chama Mechtaly
· 27 min read
Heterodox Orthodoxy
The obvious benefits of open debate and free dissent are too often confused with destructive contrarianism.
George Case
· 9 min read
A Journalism of Deception
A former BBC journalist explains how the corporation discarded impartial journalism and why we need a news revolution.
Graham Majin
· 15 min read
The Limits of American Progressivism
History and the constraints of American federalism suggest the euphoria and catastrophism that have followed Zohran Mamdani’s election victory are misplaced.
John Aziz
· 8 min read
Folk, Feedback, and Fury
Neil Young is eighty.
David Cohen
· 16 min read
Dawn of the Beaver Wars
In the 28th instalment of ‘Nations of Canada,’ Greg Koabel describes the deadly conflicts that emerged in the late 1630s between the Wendat and Haudenosaunee confederacies.
Greg Koabel
· 23 min read
Islamist Violence and Official Silence
A month after the lethal Manchester synagogue attack, the UK still refuses to take its number one terror threat seriously.
Daniel Allington
· 15 min read
Podcast #311: Finding Humour in Dark Places
Jonathan Kay speaks with comedian Matthew Pettit, who candidly tells audiences about the severe childhood abuse that once propelled him into a life of sexual confusion, meth addiction, and crime.
Quillette
· 2 min read
Australia Needs More Capital Cities
Just as the Dutch reclaimed physical land to build the Netherlands, Australia should reclaim political land by creating new states to ease the country's housing crisis.
Harry Lehmann
· 9 min read
Holding Out for a Hero
From Achilles to Anakin Skywalker, the messiah myth has evolved from religious prophecy to cautionary tale.
Stewart Slater
· 12 min read
The Melbourne Crimewave
Andrew Bushnell, Iona Italia
· 1 min read