Enlightenment Literature as Foreign Aid
Brian Stewart
· 5 min read
The Hustler and the Queen
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
Kevin Mims
· 14 min read
Resisting the Mourner's Veto
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.
Christopher J. Ferguson
· 8 min read
The Flawed Reasoning of the Techlash and Progressive Movements
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.
Dirk Auer
· 7 min read
Why Do Progressives Support the Unfettered Use of Private Property?
Tech companies are not equipped to rule on messy and complex disputes over truth.
Samuel E. Miller
· 7 min read
The Apocalyptic Threat from Artificial Intelligence Isn’t Science Fiction
The time to begin planning our response, and designing systems to give humanity a fighting chance, is now.
James D. Miller
· 11 min read
Despised—A Review
Embery offers a plan to implement his vision of a well ordered and prosperous country that values its conservative Somewhere members as much as its Anywhere cultural and economic elite.
Henry George
· 7 min read
Race and Social Panic at Haverford: A Case Study in Educational Dysfunction
Not so long ago, one might have been able to count on the naturally oppositional reflexes of young adults as a counterbalance to this kind of crowdsourced social panic.
Jonathan Kay
· 24 min read
The Attack on Beauty
The new beauty contest has less to do with our physical vanities and more to do with our moral ones.
Marilyn Simon
· 11 min read
The Heretical Impulse: Zamyatin and Orwell
Anglophone readers may be tempted to call Zamyatin a Russian Orwell, but the description works equally well in the reverse.
Riley Moore
· 8 min read
Reinventing Racism—A Review
Beyond dismantling the ideas in White Fragility, Church leverages his background in economics to forward a more comprehensive framework around privilege.
Samuel Kronen
· 7 min read
Relearning How to Read in the Age of Social Media
People who don’t actively seek out books or articles inevitably lead more restricted lives because extended prose remains the most effective means of communicating complex ideas.
Joe Nutt
· 8 min read
Will Biden Resurrect the Iran Deal?
The logic of making Iran’s nuclear program less dangerous via the JCPOA agreement while leaning on the FBI to ignore the crimes of the smugglers that made Iran’s nuclear program so dangerous remains hard to fathom.
Art Keller
· 11 min read
I’m a Professor from an Immigrant Family. Please Stop Telling Me That My University Is Racist
What’s worse, anyone who points out the nonsensical and performative aspects of these presidential letters will be gaslit for his troubles—this, in a supposed citadel of logic and learning.
Theodore Pennington
· 7 min read
PODCAST 125: Yale School of Public Health Professor David Paltiel on Computer Modelling of COVID-19 Vaccination Programs
Jonathan Kay speaks to public health expert David Paltiel about his newly published mathematical models, which show how mass vaccination could help end the COVID-19 pandemic
Quillette, Jonathan Kay
· 1 min read