Podcast #256: Unreliable Sources
Iona Italia talks to Jack Despain Zhou (aka Tracing Woodgrains) about the decline of standards at Wikipedia as a result of the obsessive efforts of ideologically motivated editors.
Iona Italia talks to Jack Despain Zhou (aka Tracing Woodgrains) about the decline of standards at Wikipedia as a result of the obsessive efforts of ideologically motivated editors.
Todd Phillips’s unfairly reviled sequel raises interesting questions about the artistic licence auteurs take with well-known properties.
Helen Pluckrose has produced a practical guide to dealing with sticky workplace situations, alongside a clear intellectual account of social justice ideology.
Boris Johnson got a couple of critical things right, but he never could or would have become a good prime minister.
Victoria’s proposed hate speech legislation forces feminists to choose which is more important to them: the restriction of misogynistic speech, or the protection of their own political speech.
It is now more likely than not that humans will reach Mars, which will transform life on this planet and beyond.
Yahya Sinwar should be remembered above all as a failure whose fetish for Jewish—and Palestinian—blood turned Gaza into dust and rubble.
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with scholar Musa al-Gharbi, whose acclaimed new book analyses the rise of progressive ideological orthodoxy as a means for elites to signal status and accumulate ‘cultural capital.’
Andrew Dominik’s much-maligned film about the life and death of a screen icon claws through the sentimental myth-making in search of terrible truths.
The works of literary critic Adam Kirsch and of novelist and memoirist Joan Didion provide a salutary rebuttal of settler colonialist theory.
Art in public spaces will always be scrutinised for the propriety of its iconography, and it will remain under attack as long as its guardians are willing to pander to the narcissistic impulses of the activists.
Shady trade routes and oil tankers keep the Russian economy ticking over.
The destruction of Iran’s nuclear facilities may be imminent—here’s why.
The journey of two novels from mind to page to silver screen.