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The Subversive Simone Weil—A Review

Chastising the followers of Marx for ignoring workers’ actual experiences, Weil was almost a nominalist, and she awaited insights, as opposed to going in search of them.

Seamus Flaherty

30 Jul 2021 · 8 min read

Charles Murray's 'Facing Reality'—A Review

Facing Reality attempts to force into view data that many Americans would rather not acknowledge.

Razib Khan

29 Jul 2021 · 12 min read

Vaccines and the Coronavirus Crank Crisis

Wrong to the bitter end, sceptics have taken this as a vindication of their do-nothing strategy and are celebrating the decline of a summer surge they said could never happen.

Christopher J. Snowdon

28 Jul 2021 · 16 min read

Listening to Literature—What We Gain and Lose with Audiobooks

The whole was something closer to verbal jazz.

Art Edwards

28 Jul 2021 · 20 min read

Rescuing the Radicalized Discourse on Sex and Gender: Part Two of a Three-Part Series

Our choice of words affects the way we think. That’s why we spend so much time fighting over which terms to use, whether it’s “undocumented immigrants” versus “illegal aliens,” “foetuses” versus “unborn babies,” or “militants” versus “terrorists.” In recent years, the question of word choice has figured prominently

Allan Stratton

27 Jul 2021 · 17 min read

The Insect Apocalypse That Never Was

The recent hyper-focus on insects can be traced back to a 2017 study conducted by an obscure German entomological society, which claimed that flying insects in German nature reserves had decreased by 76 percent over just 26 years.

Jon Entine

25 Jul 2021 · 16 min read

The Philologist, the Iraqi Girl, and Me

The comrades worked together, ate together, read together, showered together, used the latrine together, sang together to the sound of accordions late into the night.

Edward Grossman

23 Jul 2021 · 18 min read

The Ear Whisperers

Machiavelli’s clear preference was for an advisor to be principled, believing in his advice and stating it clearly, but not importunate.

John Lloyd

23 Jul 2021 · 12 min read

Podcast #159: Jonathan Kay on Life at Quillette, The New York Times, FOX News, Seth Rogen, His New Book, and Del Boca Vista

Quillette editor and podcast host Jonathan Kay tells David Bernstein, founder of the Jewish Institute for Liberal Values, about his life as a journalist and self-described “lapsed Jew.”

Quillette / Jonathan Kay / David Bernstein

23 Jul 2021 · 1 min read

The Rise of Post-Liberal Man

This kind of regime-analysis disappeared with the rise of classical liberalism, which supplied an altogether different language of politics.

Mathis Bitton

22 Jul 2021 · 8 min read

The Faith of Systemic Racism

The radicals, always livid, always demanding more, insist that all this is window dressing. A sham.

Peter Savodnik

21 Jul 2021 · 7 min read

Silicon Valley’s Cynical Treatment of Asian Engineers

Asian Americans have become an unfun topic in Silicon Valley corporate life. Certainly, they embarrass the diversity-obsessed gurus at Google and Facebook.

Kenny Xu

21 Jul 2021 · 7 min read

Interview with Slavenka Drakulić—the East-West Doyenne of the 1990s

Living under a totalitarian regime one knows censorship in and out. One can smell it from far away and I smell it in this terror of political correctness—or, if we turn it around, in the danger of expressing different, unpopular views.

Robin Ashenden

20 Jul 2021 · 13 min read

Should Critical Race Theory Be Banned in Public Schools?—a Conversation with Christopher F. Rufo

They’re embarking on an experiment that I think will ultimately fail and will ultimately harm children, but it’s an experiment that they’re entitled to embark on.

Jonathan Kay and Christopher F. Rufo

20 Jul 2021 · 25 min read

The Accomplishments of Black Conservative Thought

As a black conservative man, I will add one final note. None of the points made in this essay—about the over-hyping of victimhood in modern America or the cultural issues in working-class black and white communities—is meant to imply that racism does not exist.

Wilfred Reilly

19 Jul 2021 · 7 min read