The Ear Whisperers
Machiavelli’s clear preference was for an advisor to be principled, believing in his advice and stating it clearly, but not importunate.
John Lloyd
· 12 min read
Podcast #159: Jonathan Kay on Life at Quillette, The New York Times, FOX News, Seth Rogen, His New Book, and Del Boca Vista
Listen onSpotify Quillette editor and podcast host Jonathan Kay tells David Bernstein, founder of the Jewish Institute for Liberal Values, about his life as a journalist and self-described “lapsed Jew.”
Quillette, Jonathan Kay, David Bernstein
· 1 min read
The Rise of Post-Liberal Man
This kind of regime-analysis disappeared with the rise of classical liberalism, which supplied an altogether different language of politics.
Mathis Bitton
· 8 min read
The Faith of Systemic Racism
The radicals, always livid, always demanding more, insist that all this is window dressing. A sham.
Peter Savodnik
· 7 min read
Silicon Valley’s Cynical Treatment of Asian Engineers
Asian Americans have become an unfun topic in Silicon Valley corporate life. Certainly, they embarrass the diversity-obsessed gurus at Google and Facebook.
Kenny Xu
· 7 min read
Interview with Slavenka Drakulić—the East-West Doyenne of the 1990s
Living under a totalitarian regime one knows censorship in and out. One can smell it from far away and I smell it in this terror of political correctness—or, if we turn it around, in the danger of expressing different, unpopular views.
Robin Ashenden
· 13 min read
Should Critical Race Theory Be Banned in Public Schools?—a Conversation with Christopher F. Rufo
They’re embarking on an experiment that I think will ultimately fail and will ultimately harm children, but it’s an experiment that they’re entitled to embark on.
Jonathan Kay and Christopher F. Rufo
· 25 min read
The Accomplishments of Black Conservative Thought
As a black conservative man, I will add one final note. None of the points made in this essay—about the over-hyping of victimhood in modern America or the cultural issues in working-class black and white communities—is meant to imply that racism does not exist.
Wilfred Reilly
· 7 min read
A Toast to Randolph Bourne
There is much we can learn from Bourne, not only from his joie-de-vivre, his ideas about cultural diversity and disability, but perhaps most of all, from his toughness, his willingness to criticize associates.
Russell Jacoby
· 7 min read
Historical Racism Is Not the Singular Cause of Racial Disparity
The popular vision of race in America seems to be incapable of breaking the gridlock that places the fate of black Americans in the hands of white society and then condemns that society to the wasteland of history.
Samuel Kronen
· 26 min read
Why Violence and Looting Have Exploded Across South Africa
The poor and unemployed have demonstrated that their patience is limited and that they are a keg of dynamite waiting to go off.
R W Johnson
· 11 min read
Surplus to Society
Workers are scarce and wages are rising. “The relationship between American businesses and their employees,” reports the New York Times, “is undergoing a profound shift: for the first time in a generation, workers are gaining the upper hand.” In the Guardian, John Harris writes that, “As consumer demand surges, hospitality
John Lloyd
· 8 min read
The Language of Totalitarian Dehumanization
A week before the massive protests erupted in Cuba, I was celebrating Fourth of July at a friend’s house in Oakland, California, and listening to her tell me stories about her adventures there. She is a Jewish red diaper baby and today seems to identify as some sort of
Clifton Ross
· 6 min read
Podcast #158: Glenn Loury on America's Political Polarization and the 2020 Election
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Quillette
· 1 min read
The Strange Rehabilitation of the Black Panther Party
Isn’t it a little late for the rehabilitation of the Black Panther Party (BPP)? After all, the organization that first caught the public’s attention in 1969 was already in its death throes by the early 1970s, beset by internal splits, criminal prosecutions, and violent faction-fighting. Yet, five decades
Ronald Radosh
· 18 min read