Owned by the Audience
Online audiences have become increasingly radicalised by predatory algorithms pushing conspiratorial, schizophrenic narratives and content creators are rewarded for feeding into them.
Online audiences have become increasingly radicalised by predatory algorithms pushing conspiratorial, schizophrenic narratives and content creators are rewarded for feeding into them.
Managing Editor Iona Italia talks to criminal justice researcher Andrew Bushnell about the many causes of the recent surge in crime in Melbourne.
The philosophy that underpins the European Convention on Human Rights is undemocratic, illiberal, and incoherent.
In a new biography of Stalin, William Nester does his best to locate a human being within the monster, but those efforts eventually run aground.
Trump and the art of the demolition, from Bonwit Teller to the White House.
Decades of free riding has meant that many Middle East countries lack the skills and institutions necessary to maintain and build upon the favourable circumstances in which they now find themselves.
An in-depth interview with Chapin Fay of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation on delivering aid in a war zone—and why their unconventional model has drawn both praise and criticism.
Netanel Flamer’s book about Hamas’s intelligence war on Israel could be read with equal interest by members of Western security forces, and by members of the very groups against which they struggle.
The ideological capture of college writing programs has ushered in an age of didactic, anodyne, and tedious books.
An appreciation of Richard Herzinger (1957–2025).
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Danny Rensch about his astounding journey from the ‘Church of Immortal Consciousness’ to the role of Chief Chess Officer at Chess.com.
An unorthodox new book by one of America’s finest nonfiction authors tries to make sense of Bob Dylan.
The “Gaza genocide” calumny has become the Left’s equivalent of the “stolen election” hoax on the American Right—a baseless accusation that signals ideological allegiance precisely because it defies logic and evidence.
Lessons from 7 October and the 2023–25 war.
Yossi Cohen has written a bracing and lively memoir about his time as head of Mossad.