Tales From the Gulag
The administration, well-aware of these defamatory messages, did not refute them or even address their impropriety with the perpetrators of the misinformation.
Lawrence M. Krauss
· 11 min read
Madness for Decivilization
Mental hospitals emerged at a time, Foucault argued, when the state was seeking to impose rational order on societies.
Michael Shellenberger
· 14 min read
Does Christine Brown Deserve to Burn in Hell?
In the pitiless moral universe of writer-director Sam Raimi’s 2009 horror film ‘Drag Me to Hell,’ guilt isn’t easily absolved and debts must always be paid in the end.
Jamie Palmer
· 12 min read
Tibet’s Long Fight for Freedom
Not unlike Hong Kong’s frontline protesters in 2019, with their street battles and Molotov cocktails, some Tibetans have realised they live in a time that calls for truly desperate measures.
Aaron Sarin
· 13 min read
‘It works! It works! It works!’: Jonas Salk and the Vaccine that Conquered Polio
Americans turned on their radios, department stores set up loudspeakers, and judges suspended trials so that everyone in the courtroom could hear what Francis was about to say.
Paul A. Offit
· 8 min read
The Vox Formula: Telling Privileged People What They Already Believe
The confusion of having an elite, educated status with having information, facts, and knowledge should by now be familiar—it is a move that journalists have made repeatedly to capture a high-end market and then clothe that market-driven decision as a journalistic value.
Batya Ungar-Sargon
· 8 min read
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and the Meaning of Human Suffering
Every situation is distinguished by its uniqueness, and there is always only one right answer to the problem posed by the situation at hand.
Samuel Kronen
· 27 min read
Weekly Roundup and a Social Media Symposium
Dear Quilletters, Welcome to the 1,010 new subscribers since the last Weekly Roundup! This week you'll find an eclectic selection of articles to read, including a symposium of mental health experts on the impacts of social media; a summary and analysis of anti-vaccination arguments from the Left;
Claire Lehmann
· 5 min read
Facebook: The New Big Tobacco or A Media Moral Panic?
Social media changes the way people relate to each other whether they use it or not, and whether they use it sparingly or heavily.
Quillette
· 20 min read
‘Woke Racism’—A Review
How will dropping to one’s knees and admitting one’s privilege end the mass incarceration of black Americans caused by the disastrous failure of the War on Drugs?
Jared Marcel Pollen
· 12 min read
Podcast #170: Will Storr on Our Insatiable Appetite for Status
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with author Will Storr about his new book detailing the profound role of status-seeking in shaping human societies.
Quillette, Jonathan Kay
· 1 min read
Bad News—A Review
A review of Bad News: How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy by Batya Ungar-Sargon. Encounter, 312 pages. (October 2021) In Bad News: How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy, Batya Ungar-Sargon, the deputy opinion editor of Newsweek (where, full disclosure, she has published two of my essays), argues that elite left-wing
Kevin Mims
· 20 min read
Injecting Anti-Racism Activism Into the Adoption Process Won’t Help Black Children
More than anything, it was a deep sensitivity to our kids’ unique life histories as individuals—rather than to generalized considerations of group identity—that enabled us to grow together as a newly blended family.
David K. Ryden
· 13 min read
From Playboy Sports Star to Islamist Politician: The Strange Turn of Imran Khan
A further irony is that while Khan presses ahead with entrenching Islam in every nook and cranny of the polity and society, other Muslim-majority countries, including Saudi Arabia, are toning down the hard-line version of Islam that they have long promulgated.
Rumy Hasan
· 6 min read
Vaccine Rejectionism and the Left
The coronavirus pandemic has caused massive backtracking and spin-doctoring among progressive parties over bioengineered vaccines.
Jon Entine, Patrick Whittle
· 17 min read