On the Trail of Delusion—A Review
Why did anyone ever believe Jim Garrison or allow him to ruin the life of an entirely innocent man?
Gerald Posner
· 11 min read
Kin, Tribes, and the Dark Side of Identity
A politics based on membership in a particular religious, racial, or social group rather than broader groupings of people with the same political views was a dubious luxury that our species can simply no longer afford.
Robert Lynch
· 15 min read
Making the World Safe for Autocracy
Brian Stewart
· 4 min read
PODCAST 123: Washington-Based Journalist Brad Polumbo on LGBT Politics in the Pre- and Post-Trump Eras
Listen onSpotify Brad Polumbo speaks to Quillette’s Jonathan Kay about life as a gay conservative journalist in Washington, D.C., the politics of outing Republican lawmakers, the complex political tensions between LGB and T, and the new journalistic climate that he expects will emerge under Joe Biden.
Quillette, Brad Polumbo
· 1 min read
OnlyFans and the Changing Face of Pornography
OnlyFans is successful, not because it’s extreme, but because it’s innovative. Traditionally, pornography has only really allowed consumers to be passive voyeurs and therefore to see performers as not much more than sexual objects.
Ariel Anderssen
· 8 min read
Victimhood or Development?
It’s a very interesting development in the black community and it’s a race to break that ugly symbiosis between white guilt and black development.
On the Cusp of a Vaccine—and a Historic Scientific Triumph
What is unique about our time is not “the awful spectacle of men dying like sheep,” as Thucydides put it, but the success of scientists in bringing many such spectacles to an end.
Quillette
· 11 min read
Commemorating Mary
Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary each paid a high price for defying convention. They both entered into relationships out-of-wedlock at a time when doing so was enough to put a woman out of good society.
Lona Manning
· 10 min read
Totally Under Control—A Review
Totally Under Control is squarely focused on the bungling, mismanagement, and incoherence of the Trump administration.
Razib Khan
· 14 min read
Liberalism—Decline or Survival
It would be a mistake to conflate “adaptive” with “good.” But similarly, it is a mistake to conflate “good” with “sustainable.”
Sam Ashworth-Hayes
· 6 min read
Workers vs. Wokeness at Smith College: Campus Social Justice as a Luxury Good
For poor black people who live genuinely marginalized lives, and who will never set foot on a campus like Oberlin, racism is a real evil that affects their lives.
Jonathan Kay
· 16 min read
Intellectual Freedom and the Culture Wars—A Review
Most instructors on campus who revealed their political views also showed themselves to be a part of the Left
Clayton Trutor
· 8 min read
Does Racism Explain Black Disadvantage?
Empirically testing the hypothesis that racism accounts for most or all of black disadvantage poses enormous challenges.
G. E. Zuriff
· 9 min read
PODCAST 122: Former Harvard Medical School Dean Jeffrey Flier, on This Week’s Good News About the Hunt for a COVID-19 Vaccine
Listen onSpotify Jeffrey Flier—physician, endocrinologist, researcher, and 21st Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Harvard University—speaks to Quillette’s Jonathan Kay about Pfizer’s recent announcement that its candidate COVID-19 vaccine was shown to be more than 90% effective in preliminary testing.
Quillette
· 1 min read
Farewell, Alex Trebek
On Friday, November 6th, between 1 and 2pm Pacific Daylight Time, I participated in an audition for the TV game-show Jeopardy!. Normally auditions are conducted in person at various regional locations around the US. As a Northern Californian, I should have been attending a live audition in San Francisco.
Kevin Mims
· 14 min read