Harvard professor Steven Pinker tells Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay why Donald Trump’s campaign against his university’s ‘woke’ policies goes too far.
On 10 May, US historian Jeffrey Herf spoke at a small café in Berlin established to discuss antisemitism and the Western Left’s growing hostility to the state of Israel.
What the Korean hit gets wrong about capitalism and right about government.
The first and largest mistake Douthat makes in his new book is to argue that faith and rationality are mutually supportive.
This is a story of some of the greatest findings in modern research, and of the dismal narrow-mindedness and motivated reasoning displayed by scholars who ought to know better.
The Blues Brothers (1980) fostered a renewed appreciation of some of the best music America has ever produced.
Douglas Murray’s new book looks at the dangers posed by the burgeoning coalition of radical leftists and Islamists in the wake of 7 October.
"That was the moment I realised I had underestimated the ideological rot inside academia."
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Ellie Avishai—who recently lost her affiliated position at UATX after she pushed back against the school’s strident anti-DEI messaging.
Modern literature’s tiresome preoccupation with misery and victimhood is neglecting whole swathes of the human experience.
The discipline of English literature seems unlikely to survive the coming technological tsunami—and maybe it doesn’t deserve to. And I say this as a professor of English, who believes in the power of the written word.
Israel prepares for a final push into Gaza—but will it be stymied by criticism from abroad and discontent at home?
The Zoroastrians of India are a tiny and rapidly shrinking group. Yet they exclude women who marry out and their offspring from their community.
The Trump administration’s decision to start revoking the visas of international students is vindictive, petty, and counterproductive.
Of the six chemical elements necessary for life, phosphorus is the rarest. It determines what grows and shrinks, who lives and dies. By disrupting the planet’s phosphate cycle, unchecked factory farming could have apocalyptic consequences.