Selective Pressure, Selective Silence
David Reich and the politics of recent human evolution.
Jon Entine, Patrick Whittle
· 14 min read
Pathology and Politics
British author Josh Ireland’s new book about the murder of Leon Trotsky tells the gripping story of a rivalry between two very different men.
Ron Capshaw
· 11 min read
Why the Enlightenment Matters
Iona Italia talks to lawyer and historian Adam Wakeling about the enduring importance of Enlightenment values and how to defend them today.
Iona Italia, Adam Wakeling
· 29 min read
Colbert and Cancellation
The #CancelColbert saga in 2014 established the paradigm for countless hashtag controversies that followed.
Kevin Mahnken
· 6 min read
Liberals Without Teeth
British liberals exclude reactionary cranks like Hasan Piker and Cenk Uygur because they don’t have the stomach for a fight.
Brian Stewart
· 6 min read
"They Hate Australia": The Activists Behind the Gaza Flotilla and the Radical Left's Antizionist Turn | Quillette Cetera Ep. 65
Hava Mendelle — army veteran, nurse, and co-founder of Minority Impact — speaks with Zoe Sankey about antisemitism in Australia, the red-green alliance, October 7th, and why she left the activist left behind.
Zoe Sankey
· 28 min read
A Baseless Attack on Friedrich Hayek’s Intellectual Legacy
Author Quinn Slobodian has won acclaim for his attempt to link the famed Austrian economist to right-wing extremists. But his arguments collapse under scrutiny.
Andy Lamey
· 41 min read
It’s My Party and I’ll Die If I Want To
The most consequential weakness of philosopher and journalist Kathleen Stock’s new polemic against assisted dying is its failure to engage with the empirical record.
Rosalind Arden
· 14 min read
The Murder of Henry Nowak and the Politics of Certainty
This case shows how quickly tragedy becomes raw material for those who seek to exploit it.
Andrew Fox
· 9 min read
Antifragility in Ukraine
Four years into the full-scale invasion, Ukraine bears little resemblance to the country Russia expected to defeat in a matter of days.
Sergey Maidukov
· 7 min read
Preventing Canada’s Next Unmarked-Graves-Style Social Panic
Journalists should resolve to treat their Indigenous sources as real-life human beings—as opposed to mystic savants who channel sacred and unfalsifiable ‘knowings’
Jonathan Kay
· 14 min read
Richard Dawkins and the Claude Delusion
What is consciousness for?
Sean Welsh
· 10 min read
Open Hiding
Jewish testimonies before Australia's Royal Commission paint a portrait of a culture already transformed—one in which Jewishness has become a professional and social liability
Izabella Tabarovsky
· 7 min read
The Case Against State-Sanctioned Euthanasia
Podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Kathleen Stock about her new book, ‘Do Not Go Gentle’—in which she argues that governments should be denied any institutional role in facilitating the death of their citizens.
Quillette, Kathleen Stock
· 23 min read