93 Years of Shatner A tribute to an irrepressible TV star’s ability to live long and prosper. Kevin Mims 22 Mar 2024 · 21 min read
One Year Since the AI Pause Petition Just because we can imagine something terrible happening, that does not mean it will happen. Mathias Sundin 22 Mar 2024 · 10 min read
Pious Fraud, or the Moral Licence to Lie Building worldviews and political movements on falsehoods destroys common sense-making, impedes effective policy design, and erodes social trust and cohesion. Brandon McMurtrie 21 Mar 2024 · 5 min read
Toward Ruin or Recovery? The modern feminist response to rape is failing women, and it is failing victims of rape most of all. Larissa Phillips 20 Mar 2024 · 35 min read
Is G Flip A Woman? If we siphon off all female diversity into categories like 'non-binary' we narrow the idea of what it means to be a woman. Holly Lawford-Smith 20 Mar 2024 · 7 min read
The Metamodern Shift in the Culture Wars Metamodernism conveys the experience of living in a world in which we feel comfortable oscillating between different perspectives. Peter Clarke 20 Mar 2024 · 6 min read
What We Can Create on Mars Mars contains all the materials needed to support not only life but technological civilization. Robert Zubrin 19 Mar 2024 · 18 min read
Google and the Gemini Debacle This cock-up was not caused by a bug that went unnoticed; it was deliberately engineered. Toadworrier 18 Mar 2024 · 9 min read
Are Climate Doomers for Real? Activists of all stripes will continue to preach that the end of the world is nigh, but that doesn’t mean that we should take them seriously. Maarten Boudry 18 Mar 2024 · 14 min read
Podcast #233: Creating a Safe Space for ‘Problematic’ Women Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Meghan Daum about The Unspeakeasy, a ‘community for free-thinking women who crave honest conversations’ Quillette / Meghan Daum 15 Mar 2024 · 29 min read
An Unlikely Cinematic Triumph Efforts to produce a worthy film adaptation of Frank Herbert’s ‘Dune’ seemed doomed to failure—until Denis Villeneuve gave us his two-part blockbuster. Allan Stratton 15 Mar 2024 · 14 min read
China, the West, and The Three-Body Problem The themes of Liu Cixin’s trilogy undermine his protestations of loyalty to the People’s Republic. Jason Garshfield 15 Mar 2024 · 17 min read
Vaccine Hesitancy and the Covid Pandemic Overselling Covid vaccines during the pandemic has backfired and played into the hands of the anti-vaccine movement. Roger Bate 15 Mar 2024 · 10 min read
A Different Way of Fighting In the eighteenth instalment of ‘Nations of Canada,’ Greg Koabel describes the confusion that resulted when French and Indigenous fighters jointly assaulted an Iroquois village in 1615. Greg Koabel 14 Mar 2024 · 29 min read
You Can’t Buy an Authentic Self We should be wary of teaching the next generation that identity is something that can be bought. Freya India 14 Mar 2024 · 7 min read
