The Masses and the Market
If liberalism is to recover it must find a way to create the conditions for a better future.
Joel Kotkin
· 11 min read
Podcast #304: The End of Woke
Managing Editor Iona Italia talks to author Andrew Doyle about his new book, ‘The End of Woke: How the Culture War Went Too Far and What to Expect from the Counter-Revolution.’
Quillette, Andrew Doyle
· 55 min read
Space for Australians
New political and technological developments have eased Australia’s path to becoming a major partner for America’s commercial space industry. We should seize the chance.
Tim Blomfield
· 6 min read
Rage Is Now the Machine
Angertainment capitalises on ordinary democratic conflict by selling it back to us as spectacle.
George Case
· 7 min read
Working for the Company
The modern CIA is everything its enemies and friends say it is—by turns heroic, villainous, duplicitous, servile, and frequently ineffective.
Ron Capshaw
· 9 min read
Podcast #303: When New Netherland Became New York
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Russell Shorto, whose new book chronicles the extraordinary events in 1664 that delivered Manhattan from the Dutch to the British.
Quillette
· 27 min read
The Post-Kirk Clampdown
The current frenzy of right-wing cancel culture recalls the progressive lunacy that followed the murder of George Floyd. But the current iteration is more dangerous because it is backed by state power.
Patrick Frey
· 21 min read
Requiem for a Zine
The zine community was a haven for all types of free-thinking artists, misfits, and heretics—until online mobs turned it into just another bastion of social-justice groupthink.
Hal Niedzviecki
· 21 min read
Showing Us Their True Colours
The gleeful response to Charlie Kirk’s murder from high-profile trans activists channels the same morbid, dehumanizing rhetoric they regularly spew at ‘TERFs.’
Jonathan Kay
· 9 min read
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