Jamie Palmer - Quillette

The Lab-Leak Illusion

The laboratory accident hypothesis of COVID-19’s origins is a bust, but the popular consensus is unwilling to accept it.

Jamie Palmer

19 Aug 2023 · 53 min read

Does Christine Brown Deserve to Burn in Hell?

Jamie Palmer

31 Oct 2021 · 11 min read

Romance and Retribution

Jamie Palmer

31 Mar 2020 · 33 min read

Denial and Defamation: The ITN-LM Libel Trial Revisited (II)

Jamie Palmer

1 Nov 2019 · 34 min read

Denial and Defamation: The ITN-LM Libel Trial Revisited (I)

Jamie Palmer

1 Nov 2019 · 32 min read

My Misspent Years of Conspiracism

Jamie Palmer

22 Nov 2018 · 27 min read

Fundamentalists vs The New York Times

Over at the Outline, meanwhile, former Gawker features editor Leah Finnegan offered her take on what she called “The Bari Weiss Problem.”

Jamie Palmer

17 Feb 2018 · 14 min read

Nobody's Victim: An Interview with Samantha Geimer

The exchange below had already been completed when Hadley Freeman’s essay about the Polanski rape case appeared in the Guardian on Tuesday morning.

Jamie Palmer

31 Jan 2018 · 18 min read

Liberalism in Peril

One of the more perplexing idiosyncrasies of American political discussion is the tendency to conflate liberal and radical leftists.

Jamie Palmer

9 Aug 2017 · 10 min read

Paranoid Paleoconservatives

Trump’s populist campaign had energized a political fringe tendency now known as the alt-right (or ‘alternative right’).

Jamie Palmer

1 Jun 2017 · 23 min read

Islam's Liberal Counter-Insurgency

For the dubious pleasure of this imposing responsibility, Khan and her allies are shunned by the Left and maligned by the Islamist and nativist Right.

Jamie Palmer

18 Dec 2016 · 7 min read

Stand Up For Heresy

Identity politics, she argued, was imprisoning artists within silos of their own immediate experience and impoverishing the creative imagination.

Jamie Palmer

16 Oct 2016 · 12 min read

Flag-Shaming in Response to Terrorism

Reflexive expressions of solidarity signify an internalized Western understanding that life is precious and not cheap.

Jamie Palmer

16 Jul 2016 · 4 min read

Bad Faith: Sam Harris, Omer Aziz, and Islam

The removal of Saddam Hussein’s dictatorship, he argued, would be a deliverance, and the nobility of the project to help build a democracy in its place ought to be self-evident.

Jamie Palmer

29 Mar 2016 · 13 min read

Traitors to the Human Mind

As an aggressive activist strategy, the “pinkwashing” charge is shameless and shrewd. As moral reasoning, it is inane.

Jamie Palmer

3 Feb 2016 · 10 min read