Males in the Tails? Greater male variability, biology, and bell curves. Theodore P. Hill 25 Oct 2024 · 18 min read
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. Quillette 24 Oct 2024 · 49 min read
A Joke Too Far? Todd Phillips’s unfairly reviled sequel raises interesting questions about the artistic licence auteurs take with well-known properties. Allan Stratton 24 Oct 2024 · 11 min read
Surviving the Woke Workplace Helen Pluckrose has produced a practical guide to dealing with sticky workplace situations, alongside a clear intellectual account of social justice ideology. Helen Dale 23 Oct 2024 · 9 min read
A Half-Serious Man Boris Johnson got a couple of critical things right, but he never could or would have become a good prime minister. John Lloyd 22 Oct 2024 · 12 min read
Feminism and Free Speech 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. Holly Lawford-Smith 21 Oct 2024 · 5 min read
Catching the Starship: A Breakthrough for Humanity It is now more likely than not that humans will reach Mars, which will transform life on this planet and beyond. Peter Hague 20 Oct 2024 · 8 min read
Death of a Deluded Man Yahya Sinwar should be remembered above all as a failure whose fetish for Jewish—and Palestinian—blood turned Gaza into dust and rubble. John Aziz 19 Oct 2024 · 10 min read
Podcast #255: We Have Never Been Woke 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.’ Quillette 19 Oct 2024 · 11 min read
Blonde on Blonde 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. Charlotte Allen 18 Oct 2024 · 32 min read
A Fashionable Madness: The Obsession with ‘Settler Colonialism’ The works of literary critic Adam Kirsch and of novelist and memoirist Joan Didion provide a salutary rebuttal of settler colonialist theory. Robert Huddleston 17 Oct 2024 · 14 min read
Culture of Complaint and the New Deal Murals 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. Julia Friedman 16 Oct 2024 · 7 min read
How Russia Evades Western Sanctions Shady trade routes and oil tankers keep the Russian economy ticking over. Sonny Loughran 15 Oct 2024 · 9 min read
The Sword of Damocles over Iran The destruction of Iran’s nuclear facilities may be imminent—here’s why. Benny Morris 14 Oct 2024 · 8 min read
