Equal Pay, Unequal Work
Grand Slam champions take home identical prizes, but the men must win 50 percent more sets to get there.
Jukka Savolainen
· 7 min read
The Genetics of Crime and Punishment
Despite her professed atheism, Kathryn Paige Harden insists on making quasi-religious claims about free will and moral responsibility.
Damien Morris
· 13 min read
The Left Has a Problem with the American Revolution
Essays in the New Yorker, the NYRB, and the Atlantic make one worry about the kind of nation they might urge the United States to become.
Tony Fels
· 8 min read
Jerry Kaplan on AI Doomers
AI veteran Jerry Kaplan tells Claire Lehmann why he thinks the doomers are wrong, what the rogue-agent incidents did and didn’t show, and where real risks lie.
Claire Lehmann
· 34 min read
An Army of Yesterday’s Civilians: Ukraine and the Fight for Freedom
Do Europeans fully grasp what the fall of Ukraine would mean for the rest of the continent?
Maarten Boudry
· 24 min read
Payback Time for Steven Galloway
As the former UBC professor exacts apologies and legal settlements from his accusers, Brad Cran offers a personal account of the collateral damage that the decade-long saga inflicted on the Canadian literary community.
Brad Cran
· 21 min read
War Stories
Yonah Jeremy Bob and Elliot Kaufman’s account of the 7 October massacre and its aftermath is a triumph of dogged reporting and shrewd analysis.
Michael M. Rosen
· 8 min read
Life in The Grim Old Days
Chelsea Follett's new history shows how wretched life was before the industrial revolution, but our escape from it began long before the steam engine.
Robert Zubrin
· 9 min read
In Defence of Academic Standards
To rediscover the university’s true purpose, we must return to our core practice of making distinctions.
Oliver Traldi
· 8 min read
Letters to the Editor
Rabbi Daniel Lapin responds to Robert Lynch's essay on masturbation.
Quillette
· 2 min read
Danielle Haas on How Activism Took Over Human Rights | Quillette Cetera Episode 73
Former Human Rights Watch senior editor Danielle Haas on how NGO reports get made, what happens to staff who dissent, and why she wants outside oversight.
Zoe Sankey, Danielle Haas
· 29 min read
On Trauma-ism
Catherine Liu’s new book makes some valuable points, but it fundamentally misunderstands the trauma culture it critiques.
Marilyn Simon
· 11 min read
Sceptic vs. ‘Doomer’: How Scared Should We Be of Rogue AI?
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay interviews AI expert Gary Marcus about the possibility that a rogue artificial intelligence will turn us all into paper clips.
Quillette
· 34 min read