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
Jamie Palmer is a senior editor at Quillette.
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Does Christine Brown Deserve to Burn in Hell?
In the pitiless moral universe of writer-director Sam Raimi’s 2009 horror film ‘Drag Me to Hell,’ guilt isn’t easily absolved and debts must always be paid in the end.
Romance and Retribution
As an institution grows and evolves, it inevitably requires reform, but that task can only be entrusted to those who have its best interests at heart.
Denial and Defamation—The ITN-LM Libel Trial Revisited, Part Two: The Trial
The more someone invests in a lie, the more painful it becomes to renounce.
Denial and Defamation—The ITN-LM Libel Trial Revisited, Part One: The Camps
The story of the ITN trip to Bosnia—and the bitter quarrel about its reporting that followed—is a cautionary tale about the destructive and deranging effects of ideological hubris.
My Misspent Years of Conspiracism
Conspiracy theories foreclose the possibility of explanation, because they postulate unalterable conclusions in search of evidence instead of following evidence to plausible conclusions.
Fundamentalists vs the New York Times
Leftists believe liberalism is a spineless doctrine of compromise and accommodation, and that the only useful response to right-wing populism is a left-wing variant that is just as trenchant, intolerant, illiberal, and doctrinaire.
Nobody's Victim — Interview with Samantha Geimer
The woman raped by Roman Polanski when she was thirteen reflects on her candid memoir, #MeToo, and the culture of victimhood.
Liberalism in Peril
By using opposition to the illiberalism of Trump as a platform for their own illiberal politics, progressives risk dragging the Democratic Party into a populist cul-de-sac of its own.
Paranoid Paleoconservatives
Trump’s populist campaign has energized a political fringe tendency now known as the alt-right.
Islam's Liberal Counter-Insurgency
In her new book ‘The Battle for British Islam,’ campaigner Sara Khan offers a work of admirable frankness, determination, and moral clarity.
Stand Up for Heresy
Identity politics is imprisoning artists within silos of their own immediate experience and impoverishing the creative imagination.