Defaming the Dead
Is telling lies about someone after they die okay if that someone was a very bad person?
Holly Lawford-Smith
· 6 min read
Liberalism’s Lonely-Hearts Club
Standing up for due process, free speech, civil liberties, intellectual pluralism, and scientific rigour doesn’t win you many friends these days.
Jonathan Kay
· 8 min read
Corey Walker on Audience Capture, Identity Politics, and Anti-Israel Hysteria | Quillette Cetera Ep. 59
From algorithmic incentives to progressive posturing, this episode explores how antisemitism has become a feature—not a bug—of influencer culture.
Zoe Booth, Corey Walker
· 36 min read
Broken China
The Chinese economy is a picture of mismanagement, wasted opportunities, and decline.
Milton Ezrati
· 5 min read
The Humanitarian Mask
How activists at Médecins Sans Frontières shape Gaza disinformation.
Gerald M. Steinberg, E. Levenson
· 9 min read
The New Information Wars
Generative AI, disinformation, and the dangerous temptation of benevolent censorship.
John Aziz
· 7 min read
Public Hangings and the Politics of Virtue
Joe Lonsdale wants public hangings restored. History shows they failed—Western societies became safer after abandoning brutal spectacle justice.
Claire Lehmann
· 9 min read
All the Nuzzi That’s Fit to Print
Love means never having to say you’re sorry.
Valerie Pavilonis
· 10 min read
The Pete Hegseth Debacle
The unpopular secretary of defence may not survive his latest scandal.
Dilan Esper
· 8 min read
Is the Great Feminisation Inevitable?
We must act quickly to reverse illiberal trends among young men and women alike.
Gideon Scopes
· 10 min read
Why Housing Is Becoming Neo-Feudal: The Collapse of Home Ownership
Why are households struggling to buy homes in advanced economies, and what does the erosion of ownership mean for inequality, family formation, and the resilience of liberal democracy?
Joel Kotkin, Zoe Booth
· 10 min read
Ignorance and Indignation
Obama veterans never understood the Middle East, and they never will.
Brian Stewart
· 16 min read
Sociobiology on Trial
Wilson wanted to apply Darwin to everything from ants to humans. In response, the media embarked on a crusade to discredit him.
Peggy Sastre
· 14 min read
Island of Spies
The British establishment is experiencing a schism over China policy and approval of a controversial new embassy.
Aaron Sarin
· 9 min read
The Conned Artist
David Mamet’s new polemic is filled with muddled prose and muddled thought.
Graham Daseler
· 11 min read