Quillette Weekly + Carl Sagan's Lost ACLU Lecture
Zoe Booth
· 4 min read
The Opposite of Junk
A dozen journals left to us by my wife’s Scottish grandmother were destined for the recycling bin—until we took a look at what was inside.
Herman Goodden
· 11 min read
Science and Civil Liberties: The Lost ACLU Lecture of Carl Sagan
Around 1987, Sagan gave an uncannily prescient lecture to the Illinois state chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union.
Steven Pinker, Harvey Silverglate
· 15 min read
We Need to Do Hard Things
We’ve lost the ability to navigate our inner worlds, to sit with or navigate anything uncomfortable. We avoid, push away, or lash out because we don’t know how to handle discomfort.
Steve Magness
· 12 min read
The Emptiness of Constructivist Teaching
In teaching students that all knowledge is constructed through their own interactions, we fail to give them satisfying answers about the world and its meaning.
Patricia Rice Doran
· 9 min read
Warp Speed: Inside the Operation that Beat COVID—A Review
While the overall U.S. response to the pandemic was tragically deficient, we can learn a lot from the public-private partnership that sped vaccine development.
Josh Morrison
· 7 min read
Underneath the Sun
Written 70 years ago, Sun and Steel is Mishima’s hero narrative from frail, cave-dwelling, intellectual into a master of his own body.
Joe Lombardo
· 11 min read
Myth-making Isn’t the Right Way to ‘Indigenise’ Our Universities
Too often, the noble goal of reconciliation is being co-opted by those seeking to invent fake histories and advance politicized narratives.
Terry Moore and Carol Pybus
· 16 min read
Quillette Weekly
Zoe Booth
· 4 min read
The Tragedy of the Unwanted Child: What Ancient Cultures Did Before Abortion
Safe abortion is the modern cure for the ancient heartbreaks of neonaticide and abandonment.
Rob Brooks
· 13 min read
I Got Thrown Off Etsy and PayPal for Expressing My Belief in Biological Reality
Apparently, selling mugs and shirts that glorify violence against ‘TERFs’ is just fine. But ‘I 💜 J.K. Rowling‘? That‘s hate speech.
Colin Wright
· 9 min read
Douglas Murray's War on the West—A Review
If 'The Strange Death of Europe' was a requiem for a stricken continent, 'War on the West' is intended to be an act of defiance.
Gisa Tunbridge
· 9 min read
The Rationalism and Romanticism of John Stuart Mill
Two strands of Mill's philosophy were profoundly in conflict.
Laurie Wastell
· 10 min read
Quillette Podcast #191: Richard Dawkins on the Wonders of Flight
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with renowned evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins about his new book on the science and mythology of life in the air—from puffins and flying squirrels to fairies and angels.
Quillette
· 1 min read
Critical Race Theory Wasn’t Always Like This
The version of CRT that I studied in the 1990s offered a useful critique of American institutions—rather than a moral condemnation of American souls.
Jonathan Kay
· 6 min read