How Damaging Will the Coronavirus be to Xi Jinping’s Authority?
Xi’s hope is that he can present himself as the strong man—the decisive leader—who saved China and the world from the virus.
Brian Eaton
· 5 min read
My Former Life as a Radical
They believe in the perfectibility of man in their own image: a combination of unscrupulous optimism and narcissism.
Gerfried Ambrosch
· 11 min read
Holbrooke and the 68ers
Our Man tells a tidier story than The Unwinding because it focusses on one man, and the analogy between Holbrooke and the country he served holds up remarkably well throughout the book.
Matt Johnson
· 28 min read
The Battle to Feed All of Humanity Is Over. Humanity Has Won
I suspect that with increased wealth and access to information, Africans, like most people, will eventually find a happy medium between food consumption and healthy living.
Marian L. Tupy
· 5 min read
Convictions and Doubts: The Case of Cardinal Pell
Several factors cast doubt on the accuracy and/or veracity of the complainant’s account.
RJ Smith
· 14 min read
PODCAST 76: Venture capitalist Michael Solana on the coming corporatization of Mars
Venture capitalist Michael Solana talks to Jonathan Kay about interstellar corporatocracy—and why we should welcome it. He wrote about this recently in Quillette as part of the ‘Our Martian Moment’ series.
Quillette
· 1 min read
The Misguided Moral Panic About Racism in British Universities
The scope of individual autonomy is rapidly being eroded by measures designed to engineer an inclusive society.
Wanjiru Njoya and Doug Stokes
· 19 min read
Is Democracy Compatible with Extreme Inequality?
Material benefits can always be translated into political power because the political world has always been interwoven with the cultural world.
Chang Che
· 8 min read
Thatcher Warned Us to Go Slow on European Integration. Too Bad We Didn’t Listen
She believed that Europe should not be a centralizing power that incubated supranational institutions—particularly as this model of centralization was just then in the throes of spectacular failure within the Soviet Union.
Johan Wennström
· 7 min read
By Seeking ‘Safer Spaces’ for Actors, We’re Creating a Hostile Environment for Art
I honestly have no idea why any actor would want to appear in a serious play featuring protagonists who are not, in some way, “screwed up.”
Sky Gilbert
· 8 min read
Bravery and Betrayal: The Peculiar Case of Ágnes Heller
Heller’s overarching message, the consistently identifiable thread woven through her oeuvre, seems to have been this: find a cause and seize it.
Jelena Vuckovic
· 11 min read
As Newspapers Fade, Journalists Are Finding New Ways to Cover Local News
Less local reporting means less transparency, less informed voters, and lower levels of civic engagement.
Alexandra Hudson
· 7 min read
Confessions of an Equity-Industry Propagandist
It was my job to turn a regressive sow’s ear into a progressive silk purse.
Janet Mackay
· 8 min read
Grooming Gangs and Indifferent Police: What Have We Learned After Rotherham?
Sajid Javid, during his time as the U.K.’s Home Secretary, promised an investigation into the grooming phenomenon but nothing materialized. It is clear that we need investigations, but we also need accountability.
Ben Sixsmith
· 9 min read
A Cult-Based Framework for Understanding Social-Justice Dogma
The words “cult” and “cultish” often are used loosely to describe not only literal cults such as the one created by Jones, but also militant political movements, and even the fanatical followers of entertainers and sports teams.
Jonathan Kay
· 8 min read