Poetry is made of breath before any sound, any syllable, is uttered . The inhalation is the first word — and reclaiming my craft taught me how to breathe again.
Toby Young talks to Quillette contributor and nuclear energy expert Michael Shellenberger about what Chernobyl, the critically-acclaimed HBO mini-series, got wrong and why that matters. Michael wrote about this recently for Forbes. They also discuss the religious impulses driving the Extinction Rebellion protests.
If the FBI tapes and transcripts are made public in 2027, we will need responsible historians to use them responsibly. They can’t be ignored, nor can the allegation that is now rocking the foundations of King’s moral legacy.
The silencing of a voice does not lead to discourse, in art or in politics.
Pessimism is not just factually wrong, it is also harmful because it undermines our confidence in our ability to bring about further progress.
Skeptics say these are fiddled figures that don’t account for the “explosion” of zero hours contracts.
The ethical shortcomings of the 1969 Cornell student rebellion, which appear so glaring today, were anything but clear to us radical activists at the time.
The motif of the marketplace of ideas, Stanley argues, only works with descriptive speech.
Jonathan Kay talks to Coleman Hughes about what it was like testifying to Congress about reparations and the reaction his testimony has received. Coleman wrote an article for Quillette about why he’s opposed to reparations in March of this year.
Political speech is the most important category of speech and it is the first category of speech authoritarians will seek to constrain as they consolidate power.
The primarily political differences, therefore, emerge over how best to realize freedom, and of course, what freedom itself means.
No private personal ambition is involved; he simply wishes to obey a sovereign whose legitimacy he will not question.
The recently concluded libel trial involving Oberlin College offered a demonstration of this phenomenon on the part of both the defendants and much of the media covering the case.
As global violence against women gained horrendous momentum, many Western feminists became increasingly afraid to criticize that violence lest they be condemned as colonialists and racists.