Who Are the Snowflakes Now?
The state should never be in the business of enforcing any particular ideology, but nor should it be in the business of suppressing it.
George Case
· 8 min read
Dependent Ideologies and the Illusion of Revolution
Liberal democracy, for all its flaws and contradictions, was the fruit of slow-growing wisdom.
Jonathan Emerson-Pierce
· 7 min read
Closer to Mars
If Elon Musk’s ambitious new plans for SpaceX are even partially successful—and it seems likely they will be—we'll be ready to send human crews to Mars within a decade.
Peter Hague
· 7 min read
The Firing of Wolf Ladejinsky
What a Cold War scandal can teach us about democracy.
Michael Conlon
· 9 min read
A Bridge Too Far
Biden’s re-election campaign was a grand exercise in hubris, which led to the very outcome it was intended to prevent.
Joshua Muravchik
· 14 min read
The Best Kind of Political Art
Chimamanda Adichie’s new novel is refreshingly defiant of liberal orthodoxies.
Holly Lawford-Smith
· 7 min read
Snakes in the Backyard
Pakistan is failing to control the terrorist groups that are headquartered within its borders and pose a serious threat to both India and the West.
Aneela Mirchandani
· 6 min read
A Minority of One
A valuable new collection of wartime letters written by Leslie Fiedler shows how politically astute the budding literary critic was about communism.
Ron Capshaw
· 7 min read
The Problem With ‘Harvard Derangement Syndrome’
Harvard professor Steven Pinker tells Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay why Donald Trump’s campaign against his university’s ‘woke’ policies goes too far.
Jonathan Kay, Steven Pinker
· 19 min read
An Evening in Neukölln
On 10 May, US historian Jeffrey Herf spoke at a small café in Berlin established to discuss antisemitism and the Western Left’s growing hostility to the state of Israel.
Jeffrey Herf
· 10 min read
The Zero-Sum Squid Game
What the Korean hit gets wrong about capitalism and right about government.
Ilya Levine
· 9 min read
Religious Reasoning
The first and largest mistake Douthat makes in his new book is to argue that faith and rationality are mutually supportive.
Graham Daseler
· 15 min read
Ancient DNA and the Return of a Disgraced Theory
This is a story of some of the greatest findings in modern research, and of the dismal narrow-mindedness and motivated reasoning displayed by scholars who ought to know better.
Tristan S. Rapp
· 14 min read
How The Blues Brothers Saved American Music
The Blues Brothers (1980) fostered a renewed appreciation of some of the best music America has ever produced.
Jacob Bielecki
· 12 min read
Unholy Alliance
Douglas Murray’s new book looks at the dangers posed by the burgeoning coalition of radical leftists and Islamists in the wake of 7 October.
Michael M. Rosen
· 9 min read