The Kind of Man Your Mother Warned You About Why women love true crime. Robert King 6 Nov 2023 · 10 min read
A Generation of Misguided Policy in Israel For more than a generation, defence policy and much else has been increasingly determined by the dictates of Israel’s religious settler lobby and its Messianic visions. Michael Ben-Gad 5 Nov 2023 · 9 min read
Who Should Fund Science? The notion that governments should fund science is built on falsehoods. Zachary Robert Caverley 4 Nov 2023 · 17 min read
Faking Hope: AI Art as Propaganda There is a new contender for the most effective weapon in the propaganda wars: photorealistic, generative AI art. Julia Friedman 3 Nov 2023 · 8 min read
Whose Genocide Is It Anyway? The libel that Israel is engaged in genocide attempts to do the unthinkable—to link the Jewish state with Nazi Germany. This cynical calculus is as wrong as it is obscene. Zachary R. Goldsmith 2 Nov 2023 · 11 min read
Queers for Palestine: Identity Politics at Its Most Absurd In Palestine, they’d be killed. Armin Navabi 2 Nov 2023 · 7 min read
China’s Female Revolt How sexist violence killed the Chinese Dream. Aaron Sarin 1 Nov 2023 · 13 min read
A Roman Trauma In the fourth instalment of ‘The So-Called Dark Ages,’ podcaster Herbert Bushman describes the Visigothic sack of Rome in 410 C.E. Herbert Bushman 1 Nov 2023 · 17 min read
Destiny of Earth Muthukrishna’s new book presents a fundamentally optimistic narrative, brimming with ideas and concepts. Razib Khan 1 Nov 2023 · 6 min read
A Murder in Namibia How two bungling American assassins travelled over 7,000 miles to settle a grudge, and then turned their trial into a nine-year circus. Dan Kowalski 1 Nov 2023 · 15 min read
Antisemitism: The Sinister Pattern The enemies of the Jews are the enemies of Enlightenment. Brett Hall 1 Nov 2023 · 12 min read
Podcast #227: The October 7 Terrorist Attacks: a Historical Perspective Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to influential Israeli historian Benny Morris about Hamas’ acts of mass murder, the Israeli response, and the future of Gaza. Quillette / Benny Morris 1 Nov 2023 · 15 min read
Brexit and The Voice: Two Ill-Conceived Referenda Prime Minister Anthony Albanese made a grave error of judgement. If he had paid more attention to the polarisation created by Brexit, he might have done things differently. Helen Pluckrose 31 Oct 2023 · 12 min read
A Different Concept of Death An interview with author and intellectual Paul Berman about Hamas’s ideology and Western blindness. Paul Berman 30 Oct 2023 · 7 min read
A Failure to Communicate Jeff Sharlet’s new book is a stark and dispiriting dispatch from Trump country. Matt Hanson 30 Oct 2023 · 6 min read