Broken Incentives
The media’s incentives may be broken, but we as individuals do not have to be.
Claire Lehmann
· 12 min read
Putting the Cart before the Camel?
A plea for Arab democracy.
Brian Stewart
· 9 min read
The Bobos at 22
In 2000, David Brooks foretold an American utopia that never arrived.
Kevin Mims
· 16 min read
Remix and Float Downstream
Giles Martin has reinvigorated the Beatles’ masterpiece, a record brimming with ideas, confidence, and insouciant courage.
Christopher J. Snowdon
· 11 min read
Cacophonocracy
This is what happens when the possibility of consensus among the governed deteriorates to unmanageable extremes.
George Case
· 9 min read
Podcast #201: Sahar Tartak on Fighting Back Against Coerced ‘Anti-Racist’ Indoctrination in American Education
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Yale undergraduate student Sahar Tartak, who led a successful revolt against the ultra-progressive administration of her Long Island public high school.
Quillette
· 1 min read
Quillette Weekly
Science by quota, moral toddlerhood, bloated college administration, and the psychology of conspiracism.
Claire Lehmann
· 4 min read
The Energy Future Belongs to Nuclear
It remains the only proven technology capable of serving the energy needs of de-carbonized modern society.
Regis Nicoll
· 6 min read
Science by Quota
Australia’s unnecessary new NHMRC policy will lead to a decline in scientific quality.
Anthony Jorm
· 8 min read
Bloated College Administration Is Making Education Unaffordable
Our campuses are stuffed with non-academic office workers. If elected to Harvard’s Board of Overseers, I‘ll propose firing most of them.
Harvey Silverglate
· 4 min read
French Nobels
Dynamite, literature, and the rise of the engaged intellectual.
Robert Zaretsky
· 10 min read
Moral Toddlers Making a Mess
Adult toddlers throw tantrums for the same reason as children: they desperately want something and have no idea how to get it.
Robert Tracinski
· 6 min read
Wired for Conspiracism
The fact that some conspiracy theories do sometimes turn out to be true helps explain why our minds are evolutionarily programmed to catastrophize.
Michael Shermer
· 8 min read