Podcast #236: Recovery from Rape
Quillette podcast host Iona Italia talks to Larissa Phillips about the best ways to prevent rape and promote victims' recovery.
Quillette
· 30 min read
The Rise of a Mega-Movement
We have lost the words that we could once call upon to justify diversity of thoughts, desires, viewpoints, and policy preferences, as opposed to a diversity of demographic groups.
Russell Blackford
· 8 min read
ChatGPT’s Moral Compass
We hear much talk of “aligning AI with human values” but relatively little delineation of what these values are.
Sean Welsh
· 15 min read
The War in Gaza: No End in Sight
After seven months of campaigning, Israel’s most pressing problem remains the continued existence, indeed resilience, of Hamas.
Benny Morris
· 17 min read
What My Soviet Life Taught Me About Censorship
Censorship obscures our view of reality and impedes our society’s ability to function.
Izabella Tabarovsky
· 13 min read
A History of Stunts
Ryan Gosling’s new film is a love letter to an under-appreciated art.
Allan Stratton
· 9 min read
Analyst or Moralist?
The increasingly political nature of cultural criticism does a disservice to the arts, to artists, and to criticism itself.
James Jackson
· 11 min read
The Debate Over Lab-Grown Meat
Are concerns about cultured meat justified?
Matthew Adelstein
· 9 min read
Less Than Half ‘A Man in Full’
One of US television’s most experienced and talented writers has made a mess of Tom Wolfe’s second novel.
Kevin Mims
· 24 min read
From Caregivers to Social Reformers
Directing physicians to treat their patients as racial statistics rather than an individuals is a grievous misdirection of their skills.
Ronald A. Lindsay
· 12 min read
Showdown in Champagne
In the tenth instalment of ‘The So-Called Dark Ages,’ Herbert Bushman describes the epic 451 C.E. battle that pitted Attila the Hun against Gaul’s Roman and Gothic defenders.
Herbert Bushman
· 18 min read
The Religious Instinct in a Godless World
The religious urge is born into nearly every child. And when we do not inherit a belief system, we build our own temples.
Megan Gafford
· 12 min read
The Real Problem with Plagiarism
Students who profess to care about justice but not about the truth will end up with neither.
Ben Bayer
· 8 min read