Art and The Search for Immortality
Art can’t give us immortality, but it can give us something better. It can give us what Roy Batty longed for: more life.
Angel Eduardo
· 4 min read
Robot Ethics and Colonial Legacies with Sean Welsh | Quillette Cetera Ep. 53
Philosopher and programmer Sean Welsh talks with Zoe Booth about AI, colonial history, and why scepticism is the best guide through both technology and politics.
Zoe Booth, Sean Welsh
· 15 min read
RFK Jr. Must Go
By firing experts, cancelling important research funding, and promoting conspiracy theories, RFK Jr. threatens to undermine some of America’s most important public health achievements.
Jeffrey S. Flier
· 5 min read
Peace and Appeasement
Israel now stands accused of genocide for refusing to accept its own annihilation.
Yuki Zeman
· 8 min read
The Chess Cheating Epidemic
The Chief Chess Officer of Chess.com describes the crisis he confronted when Norwegian chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen lost a tournament match to a suspected cheater.
Danny Rensch
· 16 min read
Pre-Existing Convictions
In anticipation of the ‘new results’ RFK Jr. has promised about the causes of autism, an overview of what science has already learned.
Geoffrey C. Kabat
· 13 min read
Pride and Prejudice
The self-esteem movements that once deranged America’s school curricula have since deranged the realm of identity activism.
Steve Salerno
· 16 min read
America’s Rancorous Public Square
Political discourse during our polarised moment can be vicious and exhausting, but it is still preferable to the alternative.
Milton Ezrati
· 8 min read
Brainrot, Not Ideology
The assassination of Charlie Kirk shows how Discord, memes, and “online brainrot” may motivate disaffected youth more than ideology.
Claire Lehmann
· 5 min read
The Phantom Enemy of the Culture War
The postwar decline of the West was not sabotage, it was conviction slowly unwound in the face of horror.
Joseph Zeller
· 9 min read
A Show of Weakness
China’s military parade was a distraction from the country’s weaknesses and vulnerabilities.
Aaron Sarin
· 9 min read
The Murder of Iryna Zarutska
Why did this particular crime cut through the daily background noise of American violence?
Jukka Savolainen
· 7 min read
Podcast #302: Should Feminists Work with the Right?
Managing Editor Iona Italia talks to philosopher Holly Lawford-Smith about her new book, 'Feminism Beyond Left and Right.'
Quillette, Holly Lawford-Smith
· 38 min read
The Strike on Qatar
In a dramatic surgical strike, Israel may have decapitated the leadership of Hamas in their luxury exile in Doha. The wisdom of this action remains unclear.
Benny Morris
· 11 min read
In Defence of Malcolm Gladwell
He’s hardly the only writer who pretended to believe men can become women. If we shame him for confessing his intellectual dishonesty, we discourage others from doing likewise.
Jonathan Kay
· 6 min read