Silence on Sudan
In Sudan, a civil war involving Arab supremacists backed by the UAE has left as many as 400,000 dead and displaced twelve million. The silence on campus is deafening.
Steven Strauss
· 7 min read
Letters to the Editor
Letters to the Editor: Friday 13 February — Friday 20 February
Quillette
· 7 min read
Oikophobia and the Crisis of Western Democracy with Shany Mor | Quillette Cetera Ep. 62
An Israeli former National Security Council official examines Australia’s anti-Israel protests, the rise of antizionism in Western academia, and the growing crisis of democratic confidence across the West.
The End of the Middlebrow Movie
Middlebrow movies weren’t just two-hour escape pods, they functioned as a civic glue, a source of shared language, cross-generational references, and indeed, contemporary American myth.
Harrison Kass
· 7 min read
The Artemis Project
The race is on to build a base for permanent human habitation on the Moon.
Peter Hague
· 7 min read
Canada’s Unmarked-Graves Farce Continues Apace
Almost five years after falsely claiming it had found graves of 215 Indigenous children, the Kamloops First Nation has announced the supposed crime scene may never be excavated—but could instead be preserved as a ‘Sacred Site.’
Jonathan Kay
· 8 min read
Israel’s Ministry of Truth? An Interview with Gadi Taub
Historian Gadi Taub discusses media leaks, military censorship, and the Sde Teiman controversy in Israel—and his defamation suit against Ronen Bergman.
Pamela Paresky, Gadi Taub
· 29 min read
The Truth About Free Will
Neuroscience’s challenge to free will misses the point: consciousness and choice emerge from complex systems, not individual neurons.
Michael Shermer
· 9 min read
Populism’s Self-Defeating Trap
Populist rhetoric is exceptionally effective for pursuing and gaining power, but it provides no program for the complexities of actual governance.
Tomislav Kardum
· 7 min read
Keep Calm and Adapt
Matt Shumer’s viral essay about AI is part of a long history of fear produced by technological change.
Sean Welsh
· 10 min read
The Price of the Epstein Frenzy
Press-led hysteria and institutional cowardice are inflicting needless damage on higher education.
Lawrence M. Krauss
· 11 min read
Stop Pretending the Tumbler Ridge Killer Was Female
The sight of Canadian police and journalists extending fraudulent courtesies to a trans-identified mass-murderer may prove to be a clarifying moment.
Jonathan Kay
· 10 min read
The Moral Collapse of Empire
Southeast Asia in World War II, Part One: Japanese Conquests and British Disgrace
Imran Said
· 22 min read
The Housing Crisis Is Destroying Homeownership—and Undermining Democracy
Escalating house prices and density rules trap young people in renting, eroding homeownership—a key to democracy.
Wendell Cox, Joel Kotkin
· 12 min read
England’s Founding Father
How a 10th-century warrior-statesman forged a unified England and why his legacy still matters in our identity-obsessed day.
Ralph Leonard
· 14 min read