ChatGPT, Lobster Gizzards, and Intelligence
Chat knows more, gizzards are more complex, and you’re more intelligent.
Frederick R. Prete
· 10 min read
A Party in Turmoil
Only more pragmatic leadership can renew the SNP and help repair Scotland.
John Lloyd
· 9 min read
Chicago’s Criminal Irresponsibility
Progressive thinking on urban violence is so unrealistic it is dystopian.
Jukka Savolainen
· 8 min read
The Fragility of the Caste-Oppression Hypothesis
Empty claims of caste discrimination in the West have damaging legal, reputational, and social consequences.
Prakash Shah
· 9 min read
Nudity and Nonconsensual Viewing
The question of whether an artwork is offensive is now determined by the least generous interpretation of the most sensitive viewer.
Julia Friedman
· 10 min read
Uncomfortable History
Grappling with Western misdeeds does not require us turn indigenous tribes into pious exemplars of moral instruction.
Christopher J. Ferguson
· 5 min read
Chernobyl Revisited
Much of the tragedy resides in our collective response to the meltdown.
Lea Booth
· 8 min read
Military-Industrial Complexities
President Eisenhower’s warning deserves to be better understood.
George Case
· 7 min read
The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling Continue
Dissecting a lengthy YouTube attack on gender-critical feminists
Holly Lawford-Smith
· 15 min read
The Inimitable Barry Humphries
Farewell to Australia’s best-known comic and social satirist.
Andrew Gleeson
· 8 min read
Media Contagion
Latter-day journalism is helping to realize its own false narratives.
Steve Salerno
· 14 min read
The Man Who Invented the Modern Cop Novel
Joseph Wambaugh’s crime fiction has been much imitated but seldom equalled.
Kevin Mims
· 20 min read
Podcast #212: Kellie-Jay Keen on Protecting Women, and Facing Down Aggressive Gender-Rights Mobs
The British activist once known as Posie Parker talks to Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay about the assault she endured in New Zealand, why she doesn’t call herself a feminist, and the dangers of the “full-on cult” that has mobilized against her. Mobbed but Unbowed: An Interview with Kellie-Jay
Quillette
· 5 min read
The Sanctification of the Self
The focus on the self to the exclusion of everything else is undermining the rule of law.
Megan Wildhood
· 8 min read