The Troubled Maker: Transgressive Art, Public Shame, and Mike Tyson
Tyson embodies the moral ambiguity of boxing’s rich tapestry: brutal and beautiful; entertaining and repellent; dishonorable and inspiring.
Tyson embodies the moral ambiguity of boxing’s rich tapestry: brutal and beautiful; entertaining and repellent; dishonorable and inspiring.
There were seven police officers, all dressed as civilians. They arrived at the improvised Havana music studio on the morning of Monday, September 28th, kicked down the door and found their target—Maykel Castillo Pérez, a well-known Cuban rapper and human rights activist who was in the process of recording
It is not only the state’s consent decree that is pushing it to reduce foster care numbers significantly
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?