60 Years On: Reflections on the Revolution in Cuba
It would be decades before the people fully understood the fraudulence of 1959’s heady idealism, but it was corrupt from the start.
Jorge C. Carrasco
· 6 min read
Genes, Environment, and Luck: What We Can and Cannot Control
Michael Shermer
· 14 min read
Malaysia's Struggle to Preserve Religious Pluralism
Residing in Malaysia in the final years of the Najib administration, one could be forgiven for thinking society had somehow collectively lost its mind.
Imran Said
· 12 min read
Should We Use Genetic Technology to Boost Human Intelligence?
Instead of using the label “eugenics” to discredit advocates of genetic enhancement, it would be more productive to ask what precisely we deem unacceptable and why.
Julien Delhez
· 12 min read
How the Self-Esteem Myth Has Damaged Society and Us—An Interview with Will Storr
When we tell ourselves we can be anything we want to be, which is the myth that emerges from Human Potential and self-esteem ideas, we’re setting ourselves up for unhappiness, because it’s simply not true.
Clay Routledge
· 7 min read
Glimpsing Our Own Health Secrets: The Coming Revolution in Health-Care Transparency
Does more transparency mean that patients will become responsible for catching errors that doctors themselves should have prevented?
Amitha Kalaichandran
· 7 min read
Quillette Podcast 9 - Professor Jeff McMahan talks about co-founding the Journal of Controversial Ideas
Associate editor Toby Young talks to Jeff McMahan, professor of moral philosophy at Oxford and co-founder of the Journal of Controversial Ideas, a new academic periodical in which contributors will be given the option of publishing their papers pseudonymously. Professor McMahan talks about why he believes the journal is needed,
Quillette
· 1 min read
The Frankfurt School and Postmodern Philosophy
The claim that the work of postmodern philosophers is a continuation of Marxism by other means is quite strange, both philosophically and politically.
Matt McManus
· 9 min read
The Case for a Second EU Referendum
The fate of the withdrawal agreement, and indeed the country at large, cannot depend on “he said, she said” accusations and counter-accusations.
Oliver Conolly
· 15 min read
The New War on Comedy
Once you make it acceptable to tell the jester what is off limits in one context, you enable those who would seek to silence him elsewhere.
Konstantin Kisin
· 5 min read
Strange Bedfellows: The Peculiar Alliance Between Centrist Liberals and Radical Feminists
Trans radicalism is not a war against feminism.
Charlotte Shelton
· 11 min read
"Stop Assuming that Everything You Feel or Think Is Right"—An Interview with Robert Greene
Don’t assume that the reason that you feel something, and that it’s right just because you feel it.
Ryan Holiday
· 18 min read
Anxiety About Immigration is a Global Issue
It is time we started discussing global immigration in a more grown up way in the hope of coming up with a sustainable solution, rather than assuming the worst of each other and resorting to name-calling and selective moral outrage.
Remi Adekoya
· 6 min read
Headline Rhymes
Graham Verdon
· 1 min read
The Avant-Garde's Slide into Irrelevance
The foundations of the avant-garde were built upon the opposition of true and fake art.
Michael J. Pearce
· 10 min read