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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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
History is complicated, people are complicated, and Schenker himself was a complex individual.
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.
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.
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
Sam Peckinpah’s ‘Straw Dogs’ at 50.
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.
Yugoslavia is dead, and it isn’t coming back.
The success of the HBO TV series Succession and the recent feature film House of Gucci are proof that the wretched excesses of the fabulously wealthy never lose their audience appeal. Nobody knew that better than the late novelist and journalist Dominick Dunne. He spent the last 30 years of
The different physical attributes of males and females have functional consequences for sports-relevant outputs.