Robots, Rats and Hoverchairs: Three Dystopian AI Fantasies
Human beings need meaning, and a life in which all one’s needs were met by external agents would fail to provide it.
Stewart Slater
· 9 min read
Apostles of Appeasement
A short history of phoney peace groups and their fellow travellers.
Oscar Clarke
· 10 min read
Podcast #229: How ‘Intersectional Feminism’ Got Hijacked by Men
Veteran activist, author, and pundit Julie Bindel talks to Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay about the need to protect hard-won women’s rights from gender ideologues.
Quillette, Julie Bindel
· 1 min read
Why We Should Settle Mars
Space exploration will bring us inventions that benefit humanity. And it will help us avoid war.
Robert Zubrin
· 13 min read
History on Horseback: Napoleon Bonaparte
The French emperor and military commander played a pivotal role in an epochal transformation.
Ralph Leonard
· 16 min read
Gaza and the Asymmetry Trap
The defeat of Hamas is a moral necessity, but that does not obviate Israel’s responsibility to minimize civilian suffering.
Michael Walzer
· 10 min read
The Athens of Asia: A History of Gaza
For much of its history, Gaza moved people, things, and ideas by land and sea, and its name was associated with geographic interconnectedness.
Robert C. Thornett
· 9 min read
“There’s Nothing Mystical About the Idea that Ideas Change History”
An interview with Steven Pinker.
Matt Johnson
· 27 min read
Black Progress and Black Rage
A new biopic about Bayard Rustin and the New York Met’s opera about the life of Malcolm X celebrate very different notions of black struggle.
Joshua Muravchik
· 8 min read
Javier Milei and the Libertarian Tradition
His political ascent was meteoric, but classical liberalism has a storied history in Argentina.
Daniel Raisbeck
· 7 min read
Why Does the Intersectional Left Defend Hamas?
Sectarian morality arises from the concept of collective guilt.
Julian Adorney
· 8 min read
Victim Blaming Revisited
Exploring biases and criticisms in the perception of crime victims, from robbery to rape.
Richard B. Felson
· 6 min read
The Heckler’s Veto and the Right to Free Association
It's not just a matter of weighing up one group’s free speech against another group’s counter-speech. It’s also about one group’s freedom of association being impeded.
Holly Lawford-Smith
· 8 min read
Chasing the Ice Moon
A new book describes the crackpot anthropological theories that Nazis used to justify their belief in Aryan racial superiority.
Steven Tucker
· 10 min read
The New Normal?
Election results in the Netherlands and Argentina provide evidence of the vigour and variety of the New Right and its global reach.
John Lloyd
· 6 min read