Blood, Sweat, and Gasoline
The story of Hollywood’s most unlikely blockbuster franchise, Mad Max.
Allan Stratton
· 21 min read
The Problem Isn’t Technology, It’s Us
Iona Italia talks to Timandra Harkness about her new book, on our ambivalent relationship with personalised technology.
Quillette
· 37 min read
Damned in Amsterdam: A Bizarre Deplatforming
We wanted to give a talk on how ideological bias hampers science—and were disinvited because of our politics.
Jerry A. Coyne, Maarten Boudry
· 9 min read
The Perfect Trifecta
The new attention economy will always privilege the lowest common denominator in performance art, as it does in everything else.
Julia Friedman
· 8 min read
Unbowed but Gravely Wounded
Salman Rushdie’s new memoir, ‘Knife,’ describes the assassination attempt its author survived and offers a moving contemplation of mortality.
Paul Berman
· 15 min read
Political Polarisation in Australia
We are at a crossroads—either we prepare for a world of identity politics and populism, or we restore settlement politics in Australia.
Damien Freeman
· 19 min read
Fear and the Overton Window
The movement to abolish child welfare is endangering children, but professionals are afraid to speak up.
Naomi Schaefer Riley
· 8 min read
Eager to ‘Affirm,’ Yet Unwilling to Debate
A prominent South Carolina doctor and transgender rights activist has made a great show of calling England’s Cass Review “a sham at best”—but now refuses to say why.
Colin Wright
· 7 min read
Britain’s Golden Slumber
The British establishment’s China policy resembles a man periodically waking only to fall asleep again.
Aaron Sarin
· 11 min read
The Politicisation of International Justice
A dissection of the ICC’s warrant application reveals that obvious liberties have been taken with the truth.
Norman J.W. Goda
· 11 min read
The Limits of ‘The Israel Lobby’
Mearsheimer and Walt still don’t understand American support for Israel.
Matt Johnson
· 25 min read
Waltzing Down the Road to Hell
The unintended consequences of the Sixties’ antiwar protests have become the farce of their 21st-century iteration.
Adam Garfinkle
· 15 min read
What Does It Mean for Something to Be Socially Constructed?
There are at least three things that people might mean by ‘socially constructed’: that something is social, rather than natural; contextual, rather than universal; or that its importance has been inflated.
Holly Lawford-Smith
· 7 min read
The Future of the Space Industry
The privatisation of space travel is cutting the cost of rocket launches and powering innovation.
Rainer Zitelmann
· 12 min read