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Merry Christmas + the Weekly Roundup

As another pandemic year draws to a close, it's time for my annual Christmas message. It has been difficult to write this year as many of us are impacted by Covid in one way or another, or are suffering with the exhaustion of prolonged uncertainty. In testing times

Claire Lehmann

24 Dec 2021 · 6 min read

Taiwan, Ukraine, and Huntington’s Clash of Civilisations Revisited

Putin believes that the current crisis puts principled opposition to authoritarian empire-building at odds with the imperatives of faith and history, as well as the pragmatic imperative of keeping Germans supplied with energy.

John Lloyd

24 Dec 2021 · 9 min read

Podcast #176: Jonathan Kay on Middle Age, Watch Collecting, Sports Cars, Board Games, and Disc Golf

Quillette’s Jonathan Kay ends 2021 by speaking to Bob Tarantino about the things he does when he isn’t hosting the Quillette podcast. For the original (and longer) version of this interview, please visit Bob Got a Microphone.

Quillette / Jonathan Kay

23 Dec 2021 · 1 min read

B.S. Moss and the Dawn of the Movie-Palace Era

Although the vaudeville circuits would last through the 1920s, the way was now paved for impressive purpose-built movie houses with proper lighting and sound that would exhibit first-rate popular entertainment to general audiences.

Charles B. Moss Jr. and Jonathan Kay

23 Dec 2021 · 16 min read

The Land Where Angela Davis Is Queen

I have watched the culture here slowly change—the troubling values I fled so far from followed me like a sort of reverse Manifest Destiny.

Meghann McCracken

22 Dec 2021 · 24 min read

The Peculiar Economics of 3D Printing

Most new technologies, when they are launched, arrive with a lot of hype. While 3D printing fits the business model for customized products, it is not yet cost effective in a commercial manufacturing sector which requires mass production.

Randall Mayes

21 Dec 2021 · 10 min read

Quillette Editors' Choice of 2021

As we approach the end of another pandemic year, we would like to thank you all for putting your trust in Quillette’s long-form commentary. In 2021, your support enabled analysis of a range of pertinent issues including the continued stifling of inquiry in academia, China’s challenge to the

Quillette

20 Dec 2021 · 6 min read

Podcast #175: Paul Lockhart on How Guns Transformed Western Civilization

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Wright State University professor Paul Lockhart about the enormous military and political upheavals set in motion by the adoption of gunpowder-based weapons from the 13th Century onward—including the demise of the medieval castle, the empowerment of large centralized states, and the deployment

Quillette / Jonathan Kay / Paul Lockhart

20 Dec 2021 · 2 min read

The Schenker Controversy

History is complicated, people are complicated, and Schenker himself was a complex individual.

Timothy L. Jackson

20 Dec 2021 · 21 min read

Academic Ideologues Are Corrupting STEM. The Silent Liberal Majority Must Fight Back

We need to break the spell of illiberal ideology, and come back to our collective senses—to stop self-censoring in fear of the mob and excusing nonsense in the name of political allyship, and to start defending the values of pluralism, humanism, and democracy.

Anna Krylov and Jay Tanzman

18 Dec 2021 · 10 min read

Fund Science on the Basis of Scientists‘ Work, Not Their Identity

The available numbers don’t tell us if there was any evidence of systemic bias in the underlying grant criteria, or in the evaluation of applications against those criteria.

Lawrence M. Krauss

17 Dec 2021 · 6 min read

Weekly Roundup and a Late Obituary for Yugoslavia

Dear Quilletters, This week, Maria Vivod brings us a visceral portrait of Yugoslavia on the 30th anniversary of its demise. Our new Associate Editor, Scott Newman, reflects on his time at Princeton and provides a sharp critique of the elite college treadmill. On our podcast, Jon Kay sits down with

Claire Lehmann

16 Dec 2021 · 6 min read

Brutal and Unreformed

Sam Peckinpah’s ‘Straw Dogs’ at 50.

Charlotte Allen

15 Dec 2021 · 33 min read

The Aristocracy of Talent—A Review

Wooldridge argues that meritocracy can only survive if it is infused with an ethos that prioritizes virtue, applying talent to ends that ennoble rather than enrich.

Razib Khan

14 Dec 2021 · 12 min read

A Late Obituary for a Country: Yugoslavia (1918–1991)

Yugoslavia is dead, and it isn’t coming back.

Maria Vivod

13 Dec 2021 · 12 min read