Will There Be a New Cold War with China? A Reply to Niall Ferguson
Americans have suddenly grown fearful of the growth of Chinese power.
Matt Johnson
· 9 min read
Pell’s Pyrrhic Victory
Pell became a public target onto which a deep well of private resentment—much of which was wholly irrelevant to his own conduct—could be directed when the opportunity arose.
RJ Smith
· 6 min read
PODCAST 85: Dr Jemma Geoghegan on How Viruses Evolve and the Lessons We Can Learn About Social Distancing From Fish, Dogs and Rabbits
Dr Jemma Geoghegan, a virologist at the University of Otago, talks to Jonathan Kay about how viruses evolve and the lessons we can learn about social distancing from fish, dogs and rabbits. She is the co-author of several papers in evolutionary virology, including ‘Hidden diversity and evolution of viruses in
Quillette
· 1 min read
Quillette's Quarantine Book Club: Readers Offer Their Suggestions, Part I
The series begins after the violence of the war to end all wars and ends in a time of strangely familiar contagion and spasmodic collapse.
Jonathan Kay
· 7 min read
Immigration and Inequality
For people without a foothold in the new service and financial businesses, it was harder to make ends meet.
Christopher Caldwell
· 8 min read
Where’s Harvey Weinstein Headed? It’s a Place I Know
Many people want to know where Harvey Weinstein is headed, especially now that it’s been revealed that he’s been infected with COVID-19.
Daniel Genis
· 6 min read
Sickness and Stoicism
And if indeed “everything hangs on one’s thinking,” as he and his philosophical heirs frequently remind us, then this pandemic is just as much an opportunity as it is a curse.
Roy Wayne Meredith III
· 7 min read
Alex Salmond's Moral Corruption
Salmond simply ignores all comment that he is morally tarnished by continuing to work for RT.
John Lloyd
· 9 min read
I Run a Family-Owned Construction Firm. Here’s What COVID-19 Did to My World
Our business model is simple: We build and fix things so that other people have a place to live and work, and so that we can pay our own bills and live our own lives.
Jocelyn Burzuik
· 10 min read
Land Repossessions Were Disastrous for Zimbabwe. Will South Africa Repeat the Same Mistakes?
The frontal attack on property rights of the country’s European farmers wiped out much of Zimbabwe’s export earnings and sent destructive ripples throughout the rest of the economy.
Marian L. Tupy
· 6 min read
“Amazon Empire” Struggles Under Its Own Contradictions
Like all Frontline documentaries, Amazon Empire, a yearlong effort with 57 on-record interviews, is a stellar investigation of labor malpractice, antitrust issues, and the growing privacy and data security concerns over Amazon’s Alexa and Ring products.
Steven Volynets
· 10 min read
The Erdoğanization of Hungary
The United States should learn from the Turkey experience.
Shay Khatiri
· 9 min read
‘10% Less Democracy’—A Review
Books like 10% Less Democracy help us consider what republican solutions might look like today.
Adam Wakeling
· 10 min read
PODCAST 84: Talat Chughtai, Director of the Trauma Intensive Care Unit at Hamad General Hospital, on Treating COVID-19
Talat Chughtai, Director of the Trauma Intensive Care Unit at Hamad General Hospital, talks to Jonathan Kay about COVID-19, the strain it’s putting on health-care systems, and what we’ve learned from China about how best to treat it.
Quillette
· 1 min read
Romance and Retribution
As an institution grows and evolves, it inevitably requires reform, but that task can only be entrusted to those who have its best interests at heart.
Jamie Palmer
· 34 min read