The Public School Teacher Attrition Crisis
The solution doesn’t have to be so complicated.
Elizabeth Emery
· 11 min read
Behind the Great Firewall
For the most part, the Great Firewall (GFW) is irrelevant for the average Chinese citizen, mostly irrelevant for most Chinese netizens, and for many of the rest it protects their ability to make money.
Thomas Brown
· 11 min read
Streaming Will Never Be as Bad as Cable
Some of these services will offer really good value to consumers, and those that don’t will quickly become irrelevant.
Daniel Friedman
· 7 min read
Faced With Gender Propaganda at the Hockey Rink, One Coach Says No
Doe isn’t a “gender critical feminist,” or, indeed, any kind of professional cultural warrior. He’s just a father who refused to sign on to a propaganda document as a condition to help his son’s hockey team. And I suspect he won’t be the last.
Anna Slatz
· 7 min read
In Space, Let Meritocracy Reign Supreme
Those who travel to Mars will not need to debate free markets, bureaucracy, or state control of the means of production. They will not care about the ethnicity or gender identity of their peers. They will be too busy figuring out how to survive.
Craig DeLancey
· 7 min read
How Most American Kids Are Kept Out of the Best Public Schools
Abolishing attendance zones will not make the problems of our education system disappear overnight.
Tim DeRoche
· 16 min read
Can We Boost Empathy Through Perspective-Taking?
One of the ways we have been taught to nurture empathy is by deliberately trying to take the perspective of a suffering person.
Michael McCullough
· 6 min read
PODCAST 73: George Orwell's biographer on the 70th anniversary of his death
Richard Bradford, author of Orwell: A Man of Our Time, talks to Toby Young about why Orwell still has a great deal to teach us 70 years after his death. You can read Richard’s recent piece about how Orwell anticipated both Brexit and Boris Johnson’s election victory in
Quillette, Toby Young
· 1 min read
How Long Before the Regime Falls in Iran?
Opposition to the regime is not just to be found in the clergy. It is wide and deep but also unfocused.
Art Keller
· 12 min read
Margaret Atwood Wrote a Great Novel. Unfortunately, Her Fans Turned It Into a Cult
Atwood’s innovation is to give this dystopian nightmare the distinctly female framing of domestic and sexual enslavement—as experienced by “Offred,” a “Handmaid” assigned to a man named Fred and his wife for surrogate motherhood via monthly copulation.
Cathy Young
· 16 min read
PODCAST 72: Jamie Kilstein and Paul Provenza on the state of comedy
Comedian and podcast host Jamie Kilstein talks to fellow stand-up Paul Provenza about Ricky Gervais’s monologue at the Golden Globes and whether comedy is finally emerging from under a cloud of woke humourlessness. You can listen to more podcasts hosted by Jamie Kilstein here.
Quillette, Jamie Kilstein
· 1 min read
Goa, Gods, Gandhi and Greed: Lessons in Colonialism from Four Boardgames
It’s really a collection of subcultures, since fans of one gaming niche often have little interest in any of the others.
Jonathan Kay
· 13 min read
Why I Resigned from Tavistock: Trans-Identified Children Need Therapy, Not Just 'Affirmation' and Drugs
Separation from the mother is an important part of the infant’s psychological development.
Marcus Evans
· 19 min read
All the Single Ladies
Some women do marry men with less education, though. These women tend to marry men who earn more than them.
Vincent Harinam, Rob Henderson
· 13 min read
Glassdoor Is Broken
In every instance there were detailed discussions about what’s missing and how to do better, delivered in a spirit of “hey, we’re not on a good path here.”
Peter L. Levin
· 12 min read