In Praise of Negativity Bias It’s the things and people that offer pushback that make personal achievement possible and meaningful. It’s the knots that drive us to comb. Iona Italia 1 Jul 2024 · 5 min read
The New Political Christianity Western civilisation has not succeeded because its liberal and secular principles are Christian; it has succeeded because Western Christians have accepted its liberal and secular values. Adam Wakeling 30 Jun 2024 · 9 min read
The Travesty of the Assange Plea Deal The complacency of American liberalism has been demonstrated yet again in its inability, or unwillingness, to guard the national interest. Brian Stewart 28 Jun 2024 · 7 min read
France’s Founding Fathers: A Review of ‘House of Lilies’ In a new book, Justine Firnhaber-Baker tells the story of the Capetian dynasty (987–1328), whose rulers stitched a set of medieval duchies and counties into a single kingdom. Charlotte Allen 26 Jun 2024 · 20 min read
The War Against Truth It has long been a cliché that China is inscrutable to foreigners, but it is also becoming inscrutable to itself. Aaron Sarin 26 Jun 2024 · 9 min read
Podcast #240: Parsi Bombay, Then and Now Iona Italia talks to Nev March about her historical novel, Murder in Old Bombay, and about the Zoroastrians of Bombay both past and present. Quillette 26 Jun 2024 · 43 min read
What Heterodox Feminism Is Not It's not enough to be a dissenter: it also matters what you are dissenting from and what you're getting out of it. Holly Lawford-Smith 25 Jun 2024 · 9 min read
The Roots of Progressive Radicalism: Nellie Bowles vs. Musa al-Gharbi In two new books, a journalist and an academic offer competing explanations for the extremist ideological tendencies within left-wing cultural, academic, activist, and political institutions. Jonathan Kay 25 Jun 2024 · 16 min read
Sin and Social Science Glenn Loury’s startlingly frank confessional memoir offers a complex portrait of a brilliant scholar and a profoundly flawed man. John Lloyd 24 Jun 2024 · 14 min read
Stop Decriminalising Crime When a gap opens between what the law punishes and what society believes should be punished, people lose respect for the law and are more likely to violate it. Paul H. Robinson / Jeffrey Seaman 24 Jun 2024 · 11 min read
After October 7 with Pamela Paresky Pamela Paresky interviews Israeli intellectuals, politicians, servicemen, and others in the wake of Hamas's October 7 attacks on Israel. Pamela Paresky 20 Jun 2024 · 3 min read
The Quincy Institute’s Middle East Fantasies The positions adopted by the think tank’s scholars during the war in Gaza are illustrative of its overall Middle East agenda: appease Iran and demonise Israel. Leon Hadar 20 Jun 2024 · 15 min read
Israel, Hamas, and Hezbollah Updates on the military situation facing Israel, especially the possibility of all-out war with Hezbollah. Benny Morris 20 Jun 2024 · 17 min read
