Blasting Enlightenment Values Into Martian Orbit
Build an education system that promotes both liberal arts and liberal values.
Cathy Young
· 5 min read
Do They Know It’s Christmas—On Mars?
The answer is obvious: We need to celebrate Christmas twice.
Chris Behrens
· 6 min read
The Apologist's Apologist—A Reply to Robert Wright
Blumenthal’s politics are morally repellent and intellectually dishonest and should be exposed as such.
Matt Johnson
· 8 min read
PODCAST 68: Clinical psychologist Dr James Cantor Criticises the American Academy of Pediatrics' Guidelines for Treating Trans Children
Quillette, Jonathan Kay
· 1 min read
A Christmas Message from Quillette
In Christian history, Thessalonica is better known for the epistles that Paul the Apostle wrote to members of the city’s community, and which became part of the New Testament.
Quillette
· 5 min read
Our Mission on Mars: Obey the Lessons of Mutiny on the Bounty
Setting aside for the moment the many physical and biological problems that must be overcome to establish a permanent base on Mars, it’s worth considering how one would govern such a remote colony.
Michael Shermer
· 13 min read
Derailing Australia’s Campus Rape Panic
Universities Australia has just commissioned a new survey on sexual assault intended to cook up more impressive rape statistics after the failure of the AHRC to produce the desired results.
Bettina Arndt
· 6 min read
The Many Faces of Scientific Fraud
Everyday fudging of experimental data in laboratories cannot exclusively be explained by researchers’ desire to get an intuited result in a better-than-perfect form, as was the case with Mendel, or to distinguish themselves through the accuracy of their measurements, as with Millikan.
Nicolas Chevassus-au-Louis
· 12 min read
'White Christmas' and the Triumphs of the Greatest Generation
Viewed as a romantic comedy, a bromance, or a musical, White Christmas may seem like just a lightweight piece of Hollywood fluff. But considered as a hymn to post-war America, it acquires additional depth.
Kevin Mims
· 11 min read
Arresting the White Backlash
Moving beyond the populist moment would provide space for a more honest and necessary conversation about questions relating to white identity.
Samuel Kronen
· 9 min read
How CRISPR-Enabled Gene Editing Could Change Our World: A Huntington's Disease Case Study
Because Huntington’s disease is caused by a single gene mutation, it is a prime early target for clinical trials involving somatic cell genome editing.
Françoise Baylis
· 9 min read
Journalists Need to Do a Better Job Matching 'Experts' to Their Actual Expertise
By simply letting experts see how they are about to be quoted, everyone will end up happier.
Brian Kalt
· 7 min read
Economic Inequality—Populism’s Rallying Cry
The inequality narrative’s major flaw is that it fails to assess the only dimension of prosperity that really matters, absolute prosperity, choosing instead to focus on relative prosperity.
Jordan Alexander Hill
· 19 min read
How Bitcoin Can Protect Free Speech in the Digital Age
If we want to live in a world where we can buy things and subscribe to media and earn money and publish our thoughts without the fear of being spied on, then we are going to need a digital form of cash. Bitcoin is the foundation for that system.
Alex Gladstein
· 7 min read
PODCAST 67: Toby Young on Boris Johnson's Victory in the UK General Election
Quillette, Toby Young, Jonathan Kay
· 1 min read