The scholars at Our World in Data add that this also holds for other natural disasters such as earthquakes, volcano activity, wildfire, and landslides.
Yale Sociologist and Physician Nicholas Christakis speaks to Quillette’s Jonathan Kay about the origins of COVID-19, how it compares to Bubonic Plague and Spanish Flu, and the way it will shape the future of our societies
The disrupters rely on rhetorical devices such as replacing the passive “under-represented” with the active “marginalized,” “erased,” and “excluded.”
We are living in a time where the old models are changing, where the access to new styles and ideas is greater than ever.
Jonathan Kay speaks to famed Middle Eastern historian Benny Morris, whose latest book explores the ethnic cleansing of Turkey during the last decades of the Ottoman Empire. Transcript Jonathan Kay: Benny Morris is one of the world's most well-known historians of Israel and its conflict with the Palestinians,
Some jokes, even in the joking relationship, are beyond the pale, and there should be some margin left for pushback against jokes that do actually go over the line. But offensive humour, in private relationships, has a useful purpose and should not be thrown out entirely.
Wuornos had maintained that all seven victims had become violent and either raped or threatened to rape her, and that she had killed them in self-defense.
I also needed to say that they had it all wrong, that the white privilege they were arguing about was actually opportunity and nothing else.
Because of my experiences, and the newly fashionable denial of reality being promoted by progressives, I find myself sitting with the politically homeless.
Jonathan Kay speaks to Wall Street Journal contributor Abigail Shrier about the sudden surge of teenage girls seeking gender reassignment, the backlash against her book…and the backlash against the backlash.
How could we even conceive of something like social justice without the moral framework offered by religion?
NOTE: This essay contains spoilers. The surprise success of the Netflix miniseries The Queen’s Gambit has brought me a great deal of delight—I’m a longtime fan of both the novel and its author, Walter Tevis. Just this summer, I wrote an essay about all the great American
Reasonable debate and discussion then becomes impossible as activists make unfalsifiable but furiously emotive claims about alleged threats to their safety and wellbeing amid much weeping and claims of exhaustion and mental fragility.
But painting the world as a struggle between victims and oppressors leaves little room for a careful discussion of costs and benefits, the unforeseen consequences of intervention, and potential government failure.