God of the Yawning Gaps
It’s hard to believe in God when even very bright, thoughtful people can’t come up with good reasons why you should.
Graham Daseler
· 13 min read
Mobbed on Campus, Vindicated in Court
Four years after the University of Washington began investigating Stuart Reges for authoring a satirical ‘land acknowledgement,’ his First Amendment rights have been upheld by the Ninth Circuit.
Stuart Reges
· 12 min read
A History of Morality Clauses
The century-old moral panics and persecutions by Anthony Comstock and the Society for the Suppression of Vice are echoed today by cancellation campaigns from the moralistic Left and Right.
E. Lily Yu
· 14 min read
The Fall of Zhang Youxia
A septuagenarian loyalist may be facing execution for the crimes of caution and professionalism.
Aaron Sarin
· 8 min read
The Alaa Abd El-Fattah Case and the Limits of Human Rights Law
How did Britain end up granting citizenship to radical activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah?
Guy Baldwin, Zoe Booth
· 6 min read
Podcast #322: The Demise of Private Life
Managing Editor Iona Italia talks to Tiffany Jenkins about her fascinating and provocative new history, 'Strangers and Intimates: The Rise and Fall of Private Life.'
Quillette, Iona Italia
· 32 min read
Why Is Substack Caught Up in Australia’s Social Media Ban?
Australia’s under-16s social media ban has proven wildly popular among parents, but nevertheless it was ill conceived and comes with worrying trade-offs.
Dara Macdonald
· 7 min read
That Other Greenland Standoff
In April 1940, Danes, Germans, Brits, Americans, and Canadians had designs on the world’s largest island. Eighty-five years later, many of their arguments sound eerily familiar.
Greg Koabel
· 22 min read
The Supreme Leader’s Reckoning
The brutality the security forces are unleashing in Iran is not an improvisation. It is doctrine.
Roya Hakakian
· 6 min read
Who Got the Camera?
The right-wing response to recent events in Minneapolis indicates that MAGA conservatives are determined to repeat the mistakes made by Daryl Gates 35 years ago.
Dilan Esper
· 6 min read
The Destruction and the Resurrection
An interview with the curators of the Ghetto Fighters’ Museum, the first Holocaust museum founded by Holocaust survivors.
Hannah Gal
· 11 min read
The New Holocaust Deniers
Candace Owens, Tucker Carlson, and the antisemitic Right.
Michael Shermer
· 14 min read
A Lucky History
Tony Abbott argues that Australia’s history provides a lot to be proud of.
Sean Welsh
· 12 min read
Australia and the Clash of Worlds
The convicts and soldiers who arrived in January 1788 had not just traversed a vast distance across the oceans; they had effectively journeyed back in time.
Iona Italia
· 7 min read
Getting to Denmark
Greenland and the erosion of deep literacy.
Adam Garfinkle
· 13 min read