How To Think About Our Problems
To plan for problems ahead, such as droughts, was a better survival strategy than expecting an eternity of bountiful harvests.
Marian L. Tupy
· 6 min read
PODCAST 78: Award-winning journalist Christie Blatchford (1951-2020) on the importance of due process
The late Canadian journalist Christie Blatchford gave a speech last year about the importance of due process and the dangers of the #MeToo moral panic. These are the edited highlights. Blatchford also wrote an essay in Quillette last year based on the same speech.
Quillette, Christie Blatchford
· 1 min read
Canada's Epic Rail Crisis Offers the World a Cautionary Tale on Indigenous Mantras
All countries must do right by their own Indigenous populations in their own way.
Jonathan Kay
· 5 min read
Sorry, New York Times, But America Began in 1776
There is no reason—no reason at all—that middle-class American Blacks or Appalachian whites cannot be expected to perform at the same level as recent immigrants from the Philippines.
Wilfred Reilly
· 10 min read
The Decadent Society—A Review
Writing about decadence can be symptomatic of the condition.
Ben Sixsmith
· 7 min read
Putin at the World Holocaust Forum
The indecency of this spectacle was compounded by the fact that Putin was allowed to posture as the savior of Kremlin hostage Naama Issachar, whom he pardoned after his trip.
Cathy Young
· 8 min read
Cosmic Justice and the Expectation Gap
The issues of our time demand a more serious approach.
Samuel Kronen
· 7 min read
PODCAST 77: Political theorist Yoram Hazony on national conservatism and why it causes controversy
Israeli political theorist Yoram Hazony talks to Toby Young about the national conservatism conference in Rome, where the speakers included Viktor Orbán, Matteo Salvini, and Marion Marachél, and why British Conservative MP Daniel Kawczynski should not have been reprimanded by his party for attending. Yoram recently wrote a piece for
Quillette, Yoram Hazony
· 1 min read
Yale against Western Art
Once word got out that this year would be the curtain call for the two introductory Western art courses, students stampeded to enroll.
Heather Mac Donald
· 10 min read
How Damaging Will the Coronavirus be to Xi Jinping’s Authority?
Xi’s hope is that he can present himself as the strong man—the decisive leader—who saved China and the world from the virus.
Brian Eaton
· 5 min read
My Former Life as a Radical
They believe in the perfectibility of man in their own image: a combination of unscrupulous optimism and narcissism.
Gerfried Ambrosch
· 11 min read
Holbrooke and the 68ers
Our Man tells a tidier story than The Unwinding because it focusses on one man, and the analogy between Holbrooke and the country he served holds up remarkably well throughout the book.
Matt Johnson
· 28 min read
The Battle to Feed All of Humanity Is Over. Humanity Has Won
I suspect that with increased wealth and access to information, Africans, like most people, will eventually find a happy medium between food consumption and healthy living.
Marian L. Tupy
· 5 min read
Convictions and Doubts: The Case of Cardinal Pell
Several factors cast doubt on the accuracy and/or veracity of the complainant’s account.
RJ Smith
· 14 min read
PODCAST 76: Venture capitalist Michael Solana on the coming corporatization of Mars
Venture capitalist Michael Solana talks to Jonathan Kay about interstellar corporatocracy—and why we should welcome it. He wrote about this recently in Quillette as part of the ‘Our Martian Moment’ series.
Quillette
· 1 min read