Science Goes Rogue
Science as a discipline is supposed to be based on empirical evidence.
Lawrence M. Krauss
· 8 min read
Leaving Portland
Leaving was a relief but also a loss. There’s plenty to love about Portland.
Michael J. Totten
· 21 min read
Podcast 140: Evolutionary Psychologist (and Twitter Hit Man) Gad Saad on the ‘Cesspool’ in Academia, Hollywood’s Man-Children, and His New Book
Quillette’s Jonathan Kay speaks with Concordia University marketing professor Gad Saad about his take-no-prisoners social-media style, Lebanese politics, and the inner ideological life of Seth Rogen.
Quillette, Jonathan Kay
· 1 min read
The Threat to Academic Freedom: From Anecdotes to Data
The moral community is now self-reproducing. It is also self-radicalising.
Eric Kaufmann
· 24 min read
Replacing One Kind of ‘Conversion Therapy’ With Another
In many cases, therapists will disagree on the cause, as will the patient himself or herself.
James Esses
· 7 min read
The Problem With Linking Censorship to Incitement
In any case, I do not share the view that to restrict speech necessarily diminishes the spread of ideas.
Claire Lehmann
· 11 min read
The New Age of Empire—A Review
Andrews believes none of this. He is right in seeing that the United States is now the world’s foremost imperial nation—it dominated most of the 20th century, assuming the white man’s burden from the British and the French.
John Lloyd
· 15 min read
The End of Pestilence
The COVID-19 vaccine development experience shows it is possible to produce safe and effective vaccines much faster than previously thought.
Matthew Lesh
· 13 min read
Bunker Boy: Preparing for Apocalypse Since 1979
The film gave me nightmares and panic attacks. I did what I could with such difficult information.
Ewan Morrison
· 12 min read
Podcast 139: Andrew Doyle—The Brain Behind Titania McGrath—on His New (And Very Serious) Book, ‘Free Speech And Why It Matters’
Jonathan Kay interviews comedian, social critic, and book author Andrew Doyle on why he thinks government censors are a bigger threat to a free society than the bigots they’re seeking to cancel.
Quillette, Andrew Doyle
· 1 min read
With Theatres Shuttered, I Tried to Stage a 'Zoom Play.' (It Didn't Work)
I once directed a classical musical—Anything Goes—at Canada’s Shaw Festival. But that’s the only play I’ve directed that was seen by a large audience.
Sky Gilbert
· 8 min read
I Retired First
Our brains are driven to seek calmness as we age.
Gregory J. Beaupre
· 13 min read
The Risk of Inflation
Consumer price inflation is a broad rise in prices of everyday goods, and is often driven by a notable increase in the broad money supply combined with limitations in key supply chains and scarcity of essential commodities.
Lyn Alden
· 9 min read
For Our Own Good, We All Need a Glimpse of the Evil Queen
I have never seen a dream present something I believed to be untrue.
Jordan Peterson
· 11 min read
Starvation and Ethnic Cleansing Stalk Ethiopia
The Ethiopian government has attempted to maintain total control of the narrative by locking down the region and imposing a communications blackout.
James Jeffrey
· 8 min read