Arresting the White Backlash
Moving beyond the populist moment would provide space for a more honest and necessary conversation about questions relating to white identity.
Samuel Kronen
· 9 min read
How CRISPR-Enabled Gene Editing Could Change Our World: A Huntington's Disease Case Study
Because Huntington’s disease is caused by a single gene mutation, it is a prime early target for clinical trials involving somatic cell genome editing.
Françoise Baylis
· 9 min read
Journalists Need to Do a Better Job Matching 'Experts' to Their Actual Expertise
By simply letting experts see how they are about to be quoted, everyone will end up happier.
Brian Kalt
· 7 min read
Economic Inequality—Populism’s Rallying Cry
The inequality narrative’s major flaw is that it fails to assess the only dimension of prosperity that really matters, absolute prosperity, choosing instead to focus on relative prosperity.
Jordan Alexander Hill
· 19 min read
How Bitcoin Can Protect Free Speech in the Digital Age
If we want to live in a world where we can buy things and subscribe to media and earn money and publish our thoughts without the fear of being spied on, then we are going to need a digital form of cash. Bitcoin is the foundation for that system.
Alex Gladstein
· 7 min read
PODCAST 67: Toby Young on Boris Johnson's Victory in the UK General Election
Toby Young talks to Jonathan Kay about the Conservatives’ victory in the UK General Election in which Labour suffered its worst defeat since 1935. Toby wrote about the election recently in Quillette.
Quillette, Toby Young, Jonathan Kay
· 1 min read
How to Tackle the Unfolding Research Crisis
The poor and worsening position of research is not self-correcting, and the sector needs to be redirected towards the solution of real world problems and developing an effective predictive capability.
Les Coleman
· 8 min read
Britain's Labour Party Got Woke—And Now It's Broke
Another, related phenomenon that’s been overlooked is that these “topsy turvey” politics are hardly unique to Britain. Left-of-center parties in most parts of the Anglosphere, as well as other Western democracies, have seen the equivalent of their own ‘Red Walls’ collapsing.
Toby Young
· 11 min read
Create Dangerously: Albert Camus and the Power and Responsibility of the Artist
For Camus, great art develops between the two chasms of frivolity and propaganda, where every step forward is a dangerous one.
Clint Margrave
· 7 min read
Saint Lucia—Darkness Has Not Overcome The Light
Yet tradition runs deep, and Lucia carries a profound meaning for many Swedes.
Paulina Neuding
· 2 min read
PODCAST 66: Alireza Nader on the Political Unrest in Iran and the Regime's Brutal Crackdown
Alireza Nader, Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, talks to Jonathan Kay about the recent political protests in Iran and the regime’s brutal response.
Quillette, Jonathan Kay
· 1 min read
Yukio Mishima: Japan’s Cultural Martyr
Mishima’s reputation has grown in the new century and today there is more serious interest in his work than ever before.
Andrew Rankin
· 11 min read
Mark Zuckerberg and the Changing Civil Rights Movement
The truth is therefore that Mark Zuckerberg’s reading of civil rights history with respect to its relationship to free speech is closer to the mark than that of many who have inherited the mantle of the movement.
John R. Wood, Jr.
· 6 min read
Australia’s PISA Shock
Reforming Australia’s national curriculum to make it more knowledge-rich, as has happened in England, would be a step in the right direction.
Greg Ashman
· 8 min read
The Jewish Dilemma
The rise of global antisemitism seems certain to accelerate the demographic decline of Jews in most of the world, and their eventual concentration in Israel.
Joel Kotkin
· 10 min read