Podcast #264: A Theory of Everyone Iona Italia talks to cultural evolutionary theorist Michael Muthukrishna, author of ‘A Theory of Everyone,’ about the human dual inheritance—part inherited, part taught—and about how energy availability underpins everything. Quillette 21 Dec 2024 · 39 min read
From Skies to Screens Our experience of the world is increasingly mediated by digital technology. This is stripping us of our sense that the physical landscape is infused with meaning. Robert Huddleston 20 Dec 2024 · 9 min read
Jesus Wasn’t Palestinian Palestinians’ history, culture, and connection to the land are valid in their own right. We don’t need to appropriate or falsify Jewish history. John Aziz 18 Dec 2024 · 6 min read
Identity and Conflicts of Interest It is always the lecturer’s responsibility to ensure that students know that they can speak freely. Holly Lawford-Smith 18 Dec 2024 · 10 min read
The Trial of Daniel Penny Perhaps the most damaging aspect of Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s racial-equity regime has been the perception of racial unfairness it created in one of America’s most racially diverse cities. Eli Steele 17 Dec 2024 · 17 min read
Fragile Europe, On Its Own European leaders are struggling to cope with the multiple crises now facing the beleaguered continent. John Lloyd 16 Dec 2024 · 8 min read
Tyranny Is Not What It Used to Be In her new book, ‘Autocracy, Inc.,’ historian Anne Applebaum provides us with a distinctive and indispensable guide to one of the great challenges of our time. Brian Stewart 16 Dec 2024 · 8 min read
Podcast #263: In Defence of Julia the Elder Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Joan Smith, whose new book critically examines the 2,000-year-old propaganda campaign against imperial Rome’s leading women. Quillette 14 Dec 2024 · 15 min read
A Very American Madness America is not fallen; it is simply given to periodic bouts of insanity. The patient is tiresome; the patient is ridiculous; but the patient is stable. Ronald W. Dworkin 12 Dec 2024 · 17 min read
‘Shameless Beyond the Curse of Shamelessness’ In a new book, Joan Smith critically examines the historical mistreatment of Ancient Rome’s leading women—including Emperor Augustus’ daughter Julia, who was denounced as a nymphomaniac and cast into exile. Joan Smith 12 Dec 2024 · 16 min read
Oversimplify and Vilify ‘The Message’ is a lopsided, unserious, and frequently embarrassing essay, the real target of which is the very existence of Israel. Mark Horowitz 11 Dec 2024 · 12 min read
