Skewing the Overton Window
The double standard in the way in which fascism and communism, the extremist ideologies of the Right and Left, are regarded distorts political discourse.
Tomislav Kardum
· 6 min read
The Neo-Romantic Revolt
The rise of a three-pronged politics of unreason.
Shalom Lappin
· 14 min read
Sarin Is Also Wrong on China
Aaron Sarin’s misreadings of my essay support my thesis and show why we need to think more carefully about China.
D. Marshall
· 9 min read
The Sensitivity Era
Amid literary subcultures, competition has always been fierce and unrelenting and has become even more so in our age of elite overproduction. On social media, these embittered rivalries play out in public amid a chorus of backbiting worthy of Chekhov.
Robert Huddleston
· 8 min read
The Deformist Tendency
A new book presents a cogent diagnosis of the ills plaguing American society, but also reactionary prescriptions for ameliorating them.
Brian Stewart
· 8 min read
Half-Time for Hamas
Benjamin Netanyahu faces unrest at home and simmering conflicts on multiple fronts as he contemplates a new offensive to occupy Gaza.
Benny Morris
· 17 min read
Rethinking “Harm Reduction”
Once seen as a model of progressive drug policy, San Francisco now stands as a morbid example of how that approach has gone astray.
Christopher Calton
· 18 min read
PODCAST #298: What Does It Take to Develop a ‘Scrabble-Shaped Brain’?
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to linguist, mathematician, and tournament organiser John Chew about the world of ultra-elite Scrabble word-masters.
Quillette
· 30 min read
Trump and the Necessity of Democratic Struggle
Liberal pluralism remains the best way to secure as much freedom as possible for a nation with 340 million diverse inhabitants, and this point should become clearer as clashing illiberal forces compete to impose their own versions of law and morality on everyone else.
Matt Johnson
· 15 min read
Because the Night Belongs to Lovers
Love is transformative—and in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare is clear-sighted about the fact that that transformation can be for the worse.
Iona Italia
· 8 min read
Getting China Right
A reply to D. Marshall.
Aaron Sarin
· 11 min read
Another Tiresome Trans-Activist Power Play
The campaign to strip novelist John Boyne of his Polari Prize longlist honour shows that gender extremists still seek to control progressive arts subcultures—even as mainstream society rejects their illiberal movement.
Allan Stratton
· 9 min read
Another JFK Assassination Nothingburger
Jefferson Morley’s dogged pursuit of a CIA connection in Miami is all smoke and no fire.
Fred Litwin
· 16 min read
A Crisis of Aid and Information
Distinguishing fact from fiction is crucial to understanding the situation in Gaza and holding the correct parties accountable.
Andrew Fox
· 15 min read
Detonation Days
Garrett Graff’s new book provides the story of America’s quest for the bomb with a valuable human quality without sacrificing the epic sweep.
Ron Capshaw
· 10 min read