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Open Letter Against the Boycott of Israeli Universities

The Academic Boycott of Israel Is Selective, Unfair and Counterproductive. Sign Our Open Letter Below.

Maarten Boudry

10 Jun 2024 · 7 min read

Three people holding nuclear disarmament protest signs in front of the White House.

Apocalypse Never

Contra the critics, the advent of nuclear weapons has made the world far safer.

Mike Coté

10 Jun 2024 · 12 min read

A black and white portrait photo of Roger Corman in 1978. He is sitting at a desk and looks happy. Palm trees in background.

Roger Corman: A Filmmaker’s Filmmaker

An account of all the lives Corman touched, the careers he helped to jump-start, and the genres he pioneered would fill several books.

Jacob Bielecki

6 Jun 2024 · 12 min read

A black & white photo of young Orwell with a Hitler moustache & a USSR May Day poster of a young couple holding a red flag.

George Orwell’s Error

Had he lived long enough to witness the fruits of liberal capitalism, perhaps Orwell would finally have accepted the failure of socialism.

Christopher J. Snowdon

6 Jun 2024 · 13 min read

The Campaign to Erase Biological Sex

In a new book, excerpted below, Duke Law School professor Doriane Lambelet Coleman argues that we can support trans people without denying the facts of human biology.

Doriane Lambelet Coleman

5 Jun 2024 · 13 min read

Collage of images from the Mad Max movies

Blood, Sweat, and Gasoline

The story of Hollywood’s most unlikely blockbuster franchise, Mad Max.

Allan Stratton

5 Jun 2024 · 21 min read

The Problem Isn’t Technology, It’s Us

Iona Italia talks to Timandra Harkness about her new book, on our ambivalent relationship with personalised technology.

Quillette

5 Jun 2024 · 37 min read

Damned in Amsterdam: A Bizarre Deplatforming

We wanted to give a talk on how ideological bias hampers science—and were disinvited because of our politics.

Jerry A. Coyne / Maarten Boudry

4 Jun 2024 · 9 min read

Crackhead Barney, Deborah de Robertis, and Ava Louise

The Perfect Trifecta

The new attention economy will always privilege the lowest common denominator in performance art, as it does in everything else.

Julia Friedman

4 Jun 2024 · 8 min read

Salman Rushdie on stage, holding a copy of his book, Knife.

Unbowed but Gravely Wounded

Salman Rushdie’s new memoir, ‘Knife,’ describes the assassination attempt its author survived and offers a moving contemplation of mortality.

Paul Berman

3 Jun 2024 · 15 min read

A topographically coloured map of Australia viewed from above, with a dramatic crack running down the middle.

Political Polarisation in Australia

We are at a crossroads—either we prepare for a world of identity politics and populism, or we restore settlement politics in Australia.

Damien Freeman

2 Jun 2024 · 19 min read

A young mum carrying a baby. Dark image with shadows, giving an intimate, almost sad tone.

Fear and the Overton Window

The movement to abolish child welfare is endangering children, but professionals are afraid to speak up.

Naomi Schaefer Riley

31 May 2024 · 8 min read

Eager to ‘Affirm,’ Yet Unwilling to Debate

A prominent South Carolina doctor and transgender rights activist has made a great show of calling England’s Cass Review “a sham at best”—but now refuses to say why.