Undiminished by Decadence I grew up in the 1960s and â70s and Iâm happy to report that, for the most part, television and mainstream cinema today are orders of magnitude better than they were in my salad days. Kevin Mims 20 May 2022 · 15 min read
Pacifism and Papal Fallibility The Pope is a perverse sort of pacifist, not a man of peace. Brian Stewart 20 May 2022 · 8 min read
Gender Ideologyâs True Believers I spent 25 years in a cultish political sect. Trans activists are giving me dĂ©jĂ vu. Kathleen Hayes 19 May 2022 · 12 min read
Israelâs Perilous Moment, Then and Now Herf tells the complicated and often surprising story of the internal political struggles in Western capitals, as well as in the halls of the United Nations, that erupted at the end of the Second World War. Sol Stern 18 May 2022 · 14 min read
How We Can Get Clean EnergyâWhat Needs to Be Done? Editor's note: this is the third in a three-part series on how we can get clean energy. Part I explains the relationship between Fuel and Human Progress, Part II answers the question âIs Nuclear Power Safe?â and Part III provides an answer to âWhat Needs to Be Done? Robert Zubrin 17 May 2022 · 12 min read
Confessions of a Social-Justice Meme Maker I made pretty pictures that helped keep people enraged and mobilized. Then I asked myself: âWhy am I doing this?â Christina Buttons 17 May 2022 · 10 min read
The End of War Poetry Among literary forms, war poetry is unusual for having enjoyed a universally acknowledged and tightly defined golden age. Simon Evans 17 May 2022 · 9 min read
Hofstadterâs Paranoid Style Revisited Hofstadter argued that McCarthyism was simply the latest iteration of a longstanding American tradition. Michael J. Totten 16 May 2022 · 9 min read
Direct Instruction Works. So Why Is It Controversial? In 2016, I was sitting in the classroom of a Melbourne school as Dr. Kerry Hempenstall described the early stages of a reading program. He projected a series of letters on the screen. First, he displayed an âf.â âThis is an âfâ,â he said. Then he displayed an âfâ written Greg Ashman 14 May 2022 · 7 min read
Weekly Roundup and an Interview with Michael Shellenberger Dear Quilletters, I hope you've had a great week and aren't too affected by the wild behaviour of the stock market. As always, we've prepared a bevy of interesting reads for you this week, including an interview with gubernatorial candidate Michael Shellenberger about what Zoe Booth 14 May 2022 · 5 min read
The White Houseâs Specious Gender Manifesto The White House is claiming that the debate about childhood gender medicine is settledâeven as numerous international experts are coming forward to say itâs not. Bernard Lane 13 May 2022 · 18 min read
The Hard Left and Populist Right Agree on All the Wrong Things The ideas that unite the hard Left and the populist Right against the West itself are the same ones that make them both so excited about the culture wars. Stephan Jensen 13 May 2022 · 8 min read
Can California Change?âAn Interview with Michael Shellenberger In October 2021, environmentalist activist and author Michael Shellenberger published his bestselling book San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities. He is now campaigning to be the next governor of California on an independent ticket and a platform that promises to address the crises he identified in that bookâa homeless Peter Clarke 13 May 2022 · 10 min read
Art Is Not Therapy Something is flattened when our understanding of art is asked to serve the logic of a medical diagnosis, which sees the messiness of the human condition as a malady to be cured. Jasmine Hu-Hollingshead 12 May 2022 · 11 min read
Canadaâs Racial Balkanization With their newfound fixation on race and bloodline, Canadaâs WASP elites are channelling a mindset that I thought Iâd left behind in the former Yugoslavia. Lydia PeroviÄ 12 May 2022 · 9 min read
