Iona Italia talks to engineer Paul Brown about the hidden costs of renewables and the skewed incentives that are driving some countries towards unsustainable energy policies.
In the 26th instalment of ‘Nations of Canada,’ Greg Koabel describes Jesuit efforts to study and proselytise the Wendat people amid the Indigenous political tumult of the 1630s.
The colonisation of Australia was neither a peaceful settlement nor a bloody conquest. It was a Malthusian swamping: the inevitable and tragic result of contact between hunter gatherers and agriculturalists.
A combination of activism and evolved cognitive bias results in suboptimal social and economic policies.
The Trump administration has a NatCon economics problem.
My travels through a demonised democracy.
American populism and religion are bound by a shared desire for order in a rapidly changing world.
Forecasts that Nigel Farage will become UK prime minister now attract expressions of anxious concern not mockery from the liberal commentariat.
New mining frontiers are opening up in Greenland, Brazil, Tanzania, and Australia. In no time at all, historically speaking, Beijing’s advantage will disappear. That is a relief, but it is also a concern.
This won’t be Great Depression 2.0. But this trade war will cost America and the world many innovations and great prosperity.
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Washington Post columnist and TED Talker Megan McArdle about the short-term pain—and long-term gain—heralded by the AI revolution.
Those who ignore politically inconvenient information about affirmative action are more interested in defending a narrative than in actually solving a problem.
Even those of us who sounded alarms before the November election underestimated just how unhinged the second Trump presidency would turn out to be.
Israeli intelligence and the Hamas attack on 7 October 2023.