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Podcast #250: Israel: Germany’s Reason of State
· 27 min read
Podcast #249: The (Other) Scandal at Oberlin College
· 23 min read
Podcast #248: Bridging Divides Between Democrats and Republicans, with John R. Wood, Jr.
· 26 min read

Jonathan Kay

When Germany Waged War on Itself
· 9 min read
Podcast #251: Tracing the Rise of Radicalised Anti-Zionism on American Campuses
· 29 min read
Forging Early America’s Northeastern Backbone
· 18 min read

Claire Lehmann

Courage and Cowardice in Pennsylvania
· 7 min read
Quillette Weekly
· 5 min read
Nick Cave: “Conservatism Is an Aspiration”
· 13 min read

Zoe Booth

Graham Linehan Was Right About Gender Ideology: Quillette Cetera Episode 33
· 1 min read
Quillette’s Most Read—2023
· 4 min read
Quillette Editors’ Choice of 2023
· 11 min read

Kevin Mims

America’s Last Great Political Novel
· 22 min read
Abiding Legends
· 23 min read
Too Much Chocolate
· 9 min read

John Lloyd

The Muslim Choice: Integration or Confrontation
· 33 min read
Totems and Taboos
· 9 min read
A Question of Legitimacy
· 10 min read

Brian Stewart

A New Phase in the War
· 7 min read
A Devil of a Deal
· 6 min read
A Wretched Situation
· 6 min read

Aaron Sarin

Trouble in Outer Manchuria
· 9 min read
The War Against Truth
· 9 min read
Britain’s Golden Slumber
· 11 min read

Graham Verdon

Headline Rhymes
· 1 min read
Headline Rhymes
· 1 min read
Headline Rhymes
· 1 min read

Matt Johnson

NATO and the Return of Trump
· 8 min read
Empathy for the Devil: The Fantasy of ‘Progressive Realism’
· 20 min read
Liberalism and the West’s ‘Crisis of Meaning’
· 25 min read

Joel Kotkin

The Puzzle of Generational Politics
· 11 min read
The Road to Neo-Feudalism
· 9 min read
Cosmopolis or Bust?
· 10 min read

Lawrence M. Krauss

Scaling the Heights of Physics: James D. Bjorken 1934–2024
· 6 min read
The End of the World as We Know It
· 7 min read
Peter Higgs (1929–2024): A Gentle Giant of Science
· 7 min read

Sumantra Maitra

“War Is the Least Conservative Undertaking”—An Interview with Dr William Ruger
· 7 min read
Timely Return to Battle for a Veteran of the Culture Wars
· 7 min read
'If I Want to Hold Seminars on the Topic of Empire, I Will Do So Privately': An Interview with Nigel Biggar
· 5 min read

Ben Sixsmith

Shawls, Books, and Bombs
· 8 min read
How Trump Missed His, and America's, Best Chance on Coronavirus
· 6 min read
The Decadent Society—A Review
· 7 min read

Holly Lawford-Smith

Tickle vs. Giggle
· 8 min read
Ladies in Leotards
· 5 min read
Talking Philosophy with Bob Goodin
· 8 min read

Cathy Young

Kremlin Cash
· 9 min read
Remembering 9 Thermidor, the End of the Terror
· 22 min read
Children of the Counter-Revolution
· 16 min read

Matt McManus

The Frankfurt School and the Allure of Submission
· 9 min read
The Argument for Equality and Fairness
· 11 min read
Human Dignity and Human Rights
· 8 min read

Marilyn Simon

Against Agency
· 8 min read
On Sin and Repentance
· 9 min read
To Winter, With Love
· 7 min read

Toby Young

The Case Against Lockdown: A Reply to Christopher Snowdon
· 8 min read
PODCAST 90: John Lloyd on the Geopolitical Fall-Out From the Coronavirus Crisis
· 1 min read
Britain's Labour Party Got Woke—And Now It's Broke
· 11 min read

Uri Harris

On the IDW: A Response to Eric Weinstein
· 7 min read
Caricaturing the Left Doesn’t Benefit the Intellectual Dark Web
· 9 min read
Is the 'Intellectual Dark Web' Politically Diverse?
· 8 min read

Greg Koabel

Return of the Jesuits
· 20 min read
Dutchmen on the Hudson
· 19 min read
The Birth of Quebec
· 17 min read

Allan Stratton

Monstrous Things
· 11 min read
Texas Porn Star Massacres
· 12 min read
Blood, Sweat, and Gasoline
· 21 min read

Coleman Hughes

Do COVID-19 Racial Disparities Matter?
· 5 min read
Reflections on Intersectionality
· 7 min read
Why Do Progressives Hate Gentrification?
· 7 min read

Bo Winegard

Conservatism in an Era Of Populist Revolt
· 11 min read
Religious Permanence
· 10 min read
Misunderstanding Equality
· 11 min read

Jamie Palmer

The Lab-Leak Illusion
· 53 min read
Does Christine Brown Deserve to Burn in Hell?
· 12 min read
Romance and Retribution
· 34 min read

Samuel Kronen

‘A Dream Deferred’ Revisited
· 17 min read
Fate, Faith, and Suffering
· 27 min read
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and the Meaning of Human Suffering
· 27 min read

Michael Shermer

Aliens...Again!
· 10 min read
Left or Right, Politicians Shouldn’t Be Telling Academics What They’re Allowed to Teach
· 7 min read
Wired for Conspiracism
· 8 min read

The Quillette Editorial Board

The Cass Effect
· 14 min read
Claudine Gay’s Misguided Defenders
· 10 min read
The Southern Poverty Law Center’s New Enemy: Americans Who Accept Biology
· 12 min read

Jeffrey Tayler

'Luciferina': An Interview with Amanda Knox
· 8 min read
Resolving the Venezuela Crisis: Is There a Case for Outside Military Intervention?
· 8 min read
Speaking Out About Islam – Lubna Ahmed, Rebel With a Cause
· 13 min read

Andy Ngo

Denmark's Blaspheming Mother
· 9 min read
A Night Out with a Muslim and an Atheist
· 5 min read
A Racial Shakedown in Portland
· 6 min read

George Case

The Delta Variant
· 9 min read
Ignore This Article
· 8 min read
Immigrant Song
· 9 min read

Sean Welsh

‘Superintelligence,’ Ten Years On
· 12 min read
ChatGPT’s Moral Compass
· 15 min read
Getting Better All the Time
· 12 min read

Steve Salerno

Thinking the Unthinkable
· 14 min read
For a Time, a Pit Bull Gave Me Back My Son
· 12 min read
Beware Psychotherapy That Works
· 11 min read

Michael Shellenberger

Madness for Decivilization
· 14 min read
I Was Invited to Testify on Energy Policy. Then Democrats Didn't Let Me Speak
· 6 min read
Why I Believe Climate Change Is Not the End of the World
· 37 min read

Spencer Case

‘Dissident Philosophers’—A Review
· 10 min read
The Journal of Controversial Ideas Is Here
· 11 min read
Beyond the Hypatia Affair: Philosophers Blocking the Way of Inquiry
· 12 min read

Charlotte Allen

France’s Founding Fathers: A Review of ‘House of Lilies’
· 20 min read
Jean-Luc Godard in Retrospect Part II: Fanaticism and Failure (1966–2022)
· 36 min read
Jean-Luc Godard in Retrospect Part I: Abstraction Hero (1930–65)
· 33 min read

Christopher J. Ferguson

Columbus Day: A Fraught Celebration
· 7 min read
Uncomfortable History
· 5 min read
Stuck in the Middle (of Academia)
· 12 min read

Benny Morris

Tragedy and Half-Truths: A Gaza Diary
· 15 min read
Shadow Boxing: The Conflict Between Iran and Israel
· 18 min read
Israel, Hamas, and Hezbollah
· 17 min read

Daniel Friedman

Will Elon Musk Take Over Twitter?
· 11 min read
Antiracism, Anti-Semitism, and the False Problem of Jewish Success
· 15 min read
Is the My Little Pony Fan Community Really Full of Nazis?
· 7 min read

Robin Ashenden

Milan Kundera: The Nobel Prize for Literature Winner We Never Had
· 12 min read
Thoughtful Aesthete or Cheerful Philistine?
· 9 min read
Low Life and High Style
· 14 min read

Zaid Jilani

George Makari's ‘Of Fear and Strangers’—A Review
· 6 min read
Stop Sensationalizing the Threat of Right-Wing Political Violence
· 7 min read
How The Intercept Abandoned Its Truth-Seeking Mission—And Lost Its Best Journalist
· 9 min read

Brian Boutwell

A Risk Not Worth Taking: An Open Letter to My Colleagues in The Academy
· 4 min read
Not Everything Is An Interaction
· 4 min read
On Parenting and Parents
· 5 min read

Heather Mac Donald

A Kiss Is Just a Kiss
· 9 min read
Bastardizing Beethoven
· 10 min read
Dismantle DEI Ideology
· 16 min read

Louise Perry

The Dishonest and Misogynistic Hate Campaign Against J.K. Rowling
· 7 min read
Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family—A Review
· 9 min read
Are Contemporary Feminists Too Agreeable?
· 9 min read

Matthew Blackwell

Outback Australia and the Information Wars
· 14 min read
An Outback Conspiracy
· 13 min read
Black Lives Matter and the Mechanics of Conformity
· 17 min read

Pamela Paresky

After October 7 with Pamela Paresky
· 3 min read
An Interview with Jonathan Conricus
· 21 min read
Dan Schueftan on the Palestine-Israel Conflict
· 34 min read

Toni Airaksinen

Tyranny of the Ethnography: How Lived Experience Corrupts the Social Sciences
· 6 min read
Why Colleges Should Stop Teaching “Toxic Masculinity”
· 4 min read
Review: Paying the Price: College Costs, Financial Aid, and the Betrayal of the American Dream — Sara Goldrick-Rab
· 4 min read

Gideon Scopes

New Title IX Regulations Protect the Innocent
· 9 min read
Towards a Worker's Bill of Rights
· 9 min read
The Pitfalls of Too Much Security
· 10 min read

Greg Ashman

Direct Instruction Works. So Why Is It Controversial?
· 7 min read
What's Wrong With the New Australian Curriculum?
· 7 min read
Can You Teach Children to be Anti-Racist?
· 6 min read

Herbert Bushman

Two Wars, a Wedding, and a Funeral
· 12 min read
Showdown in Champagne
· 18 min read
Under Attila’s Gaze
· 28 min read

Jeffrey Herf

Kamala Harris’s Very Big Tent
· 10 min read
An Interrupted Genocide
· 11 min read
Springtime for Sinwar
· 21 min read

Maarten Boudry

Open Letter Against the Boycott of Israeli Universities
· 7 min read
Are Climate Doomers for Real?
· 14 min read
The Seven Laws of Pessimism
· 16 min read

Oliver Traldi

The Pervert’s Guide to Philosophy
· 19 min read
Civil Rights and Wrongs
· 16 min read
The State of ‘Nature’
· 7 min read

Sky Gilbert

The Sad Spectacle of ‘Drag Queen Story Hour’
· 11 min read
With Theatres Shuttered, I Tried to Stage a 'Zoom Play.' (It Didn't Work)
· 8 min read
R.M. Vaughan (1965–2020): A Beautiful Mind Silently Extinguished in a Time of Fear
· 8 min read

Bernard Lane

Banning the Blockers
· 9 min read
How Australia’s Press Council Has Been Used to Stifle the Gender Debate
· 17 min read
Four Corners' Failure
· 11 min read

Adam Wakeling

The New Political Christianity
· 9 min read
Anti-Enlightenment Thinking, Past and Present
· 9 min read
Cancelling Comedians While the World Burns—A Review
· 7 min read

Clay Routledge

From Academia to Hollywood: An Interview with Tony Tost
· 21 min read
Religious Faith and the Family: An Interview with Dr. W. Bradford Wilcox
· 6 min read
Meaning Matters
· 8 min read

Jonathan Church

Why Culture Matters for Racial Disparities
· 19 min read
Robin DiAngelo’s Misreading of Michel Foucault
· 5 min read
The Truth According to Social Justice—A Review of 'Cynical Theories'
· 8 min read

Alexander Blum

Disorder in Heaven
· 7 min read
Democratic Socialism or Social Democracy?
· 7 min read
Religions, Nations, and Other Useful Fictions
· 7 min read

Andrew Glover

Vaccine Hesitancy and the Paradox of Choice
· 4 min read
Why Is a Top Australian University Supporting Indigenous Creationism?
· 5 min read
The Abortion Issue Isn’t About ‘The Patriarchy’
· 6 min read

Ari David Blaff

When Anti-Racism Training Becomes ‘Vexatious’ Abuse
· 32 min read
Rebalancing the Gender Narrative
· 7 min read
The Striver’s Curse
· 6 min read

Brad Polumbo

No, There’s No ‘Epidemic’ of Anti-Transgender Violence
· 8 min read
The Outing of 'Lady G': Humiliating a Closeted Gay Republican in the Name of LGBT Rights
· 6 min read
Press Censorship Has Always Hurt Democracy. In the Age of COVID-19, It's Also Killing People
· 5 min read

Christopher J. Snowdon

George Orwell’s Error
· 13 min read
The Rise of the Respectable Conspiracy Theory
· 14 min read
How Do They Know This?
· 6 min read

David S. Wills

The Dualism of Duluoz
· 15 min read
Murakami On Writing
· 11 min read
Napoleon in Rags
· 13 min read

Debra Soh

How the Nonbinary Trend Hurts Those with Real Gender Dysphoria
· 6 min read
The Boy Scouts' Bankruptcy, and the Scourge of Childhood Sex Abuse
· 5 min read
Intersectionalism Is Nonsense. But the Backlash Against It Is Very Real
· 5 min read

Emma C Williams

In Defence of Private Tuition
· 6 min read
On Opinions and Entitlement
· 5 min read
Taking the Wonder Out of Science Education
· 7 min read

Eric Kaufmann

Progressivism, Sexuality, and Mental Illness
· 12 min read
The Threat to Academic Freedom: From Anecdotes to Data
· 24 min read
The Denial of Cancel Culture
· 14 min read

Gregory Gorelik

The Ironies of Sex
· 8 min read
Alternative, Scientifically-Literate Guidelines for Psychological Practice with Boys and Men
· 12 min read
Traditionalists and Activists are Both Wrong About Sex and Gender
· 8 min read

Hannah Gal

A Love Letter to the Theatre
· 12 min read
Sir Roger Deakins—An Englishman in LA
· 6 min read
Mutual Friends: The Adventures of Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins
· 7 min read

Helen Dale

Taking on the Offendotrons: a review of Russell Blackford's 'The Tyranny of Opinion'
· 15 min read
The Divided Kingdom
· 15 min read
The UK Labour Party and the System of Diversity
· 18 min read

Irene Ogrizek

The Dishonesty of #MeToo in Canada's Literary Scene
· 9 min read
Campus Counsellors and the Politicization of Sexual Assault
· 9 min read
Laura Kipnis, Camille Paglia and the Redefinition of Sex
· 6 min read

James D. Miller

It’s Time to Start Treating High School Math Like Football
· 6 min read
Machine Learning, Deep Fakes, and the Threat of an Artificially Intelligent Hate-Bot
· 6 min read
The Apocalyptic Threat from Artificial Intelligence Isn’t Science Fiction
· 11 min read

Jared Marcel Pollen

Piketty’s Progress
· 10 min read
A World of Waste, Stripped of Transcendence: James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’ at 100
· 13 min read
‘Woke Racism’—A Review
· 12 min read

Jaspreet Singh Boparai

A Filmmaker in Spite of Himself
· 22 min read
Mystic Without a Church
· 17 min read
Hollywood Autocrat
· 12 min read

Jonathan Anomaly

Effective vs. Pathological Altruism
· 5 min read
What’s Wrong with the American Academy
· 6 min read
Libel of Jordan Peterson by the Forward—A Story of Journalistic Failure
· 4 min read

Julia Friedman

The Perfect Trifecta
· 8 min read
Narcissism for All
· 10 min read
Faking Hope: AI Art as Propaganda
· 8 min read

Naomi Schaefer Riley

Fear and the Overton Window
· 8 min read
Philanthropy and Pluralism
· 5 min read
America’s Failing Child-Protection System
· 7 min read

Neema Parvini

A Tale of Two Cities: The Modern Soothsayers
· 5 min read
What We Talk About When We Talk About Immigration
· 11 min read
Individuals and Symbols
· 7 min read

Razib Khan

Destiny of Earth
· 6 min read
The Aristocracy of Talent—A Review
· 12 min read
The Scout Mindset—A Review
· 7 min read

Wilfred Reilly

The Accomplishments of Black Conservative Thought
· 7 min read
One ‘Maverick’ Documents Another—Jason Riley’s Biography of Thomas Sowell
· 10 min read
Facts Don’t Care About Your Diversity Training Certificate—A Critique of Credentialism
· 10 min read

Robert Zubrin

What We Can Create on Mars
· 18 min read
Why We Should Settle Mars
· 13 min read
How Accurate is Christopher Nolan’s ‘Oppenheimer’?
· 10 min read

Lisa Marchiano

How Women Can Become Worthy Opponents
· 8 min read
The Ranks of Gender Detransitioners Are Growing. We Need to Understand Why
· 8 min read
Trans Activism's Dangerous Myth of Parental Rejection
· 13 min read

Matthew Mott

Is It Time to Regulate Social Media?
· 8 min read
Online Hate Speech and the Nazi Pug
· 6 min read
The Internet Is Not a Children’s TV Channel
· 6 min read

Michael Aaron

Evergreen State and the Battle for Modernity Part 2: True Believers, Fence Sitters, and Group Conformity
· 9 min read
A Tale of Two Europes
· 9 min read
Evergreen State and the Battle for Modernity
· 8 min read

Noah Carl

The Petulant Campaign Against Eric Kaufmann
· 5 min read
Britain's Academic Free Speech Bill
· 13 min read
Lockdown Scepticism Was Never a ‘Fringe’ Viewpoint
· 11 min read

Patrick Lee Miller

Francis Fukuyama’s Master Concept
· 13 min read
Between Discipline and Chaos
· 11 min read
Liberalism Can Succeed
· 24 min read

Paulina Neuding

Sweden Has Resisted a Lockdown. But That Doesn't Make it a Bastion of Liberty
· 6 min read
Scandinavian Airlines: Get Woke, Cry Wolf
· 5 min read
Saint Lucia—Darkness Has Not Overcome The Light
· 2 min read

RJ Smith

Gaza, Islam, and the West
· 7 min read
The Sorrow and the Self-Pity
· 8 min read
CĂ©line, Literary Antichrist
· 9 min read

Rumy Hasan

From Playboy Sports Star to Islamist Politician: The Strange Turn of Imran Khan
· 6 min read
Masochistic Nationalism—A Review
· 7 min read
The Suffocation of Academic Freedom by the Research Excellence Framework
· 5 min read

Stephen Elliott

Without and Within, a Fin-de-SiĂšcle Moment
· 8 min read
‘Nobody Likes the Other Guy’: On the Road With Donald Trump’s Diehards
· 20 min read
‘Things You Should Be Aware Of’: A Pandemic Prose Poem
· 5 min read

William Buckner

A Girl’s Place in the World
· 15 min read
On the Nature of Patriarchy
· 16 min read
Burying a Child
· 10 min read

Colin Wright

Eager to ‘Affirm,’ Yet Unwilling to Debate
· 7 min read
I Got Thrown Off Etsy and PayPal for Expressing My Belief in Biological Reality
· 9 min read
Weekly Roundup
· 6 min read

David Cohen

Born to Boss
· 14 min read
In the Country of Last Things
· 14 min read
In the Spirit of the Lord
· 16 min read

Jerry Barnett

How Social Justice Killed Anti-Racism
· 11 min read
Guns, Germs, and Steel is a Powerful Anti-Racist Book. So Why Doesn’t the Left Love It?
· 14 min read
The War on Porn: Cancel Culture on Steroids
· 12 min read

Kathrine Jebsen Moore

Support for Scottish Independence Wanes as the SNP Is Engulfed in Scandal
· 7 min read
Meet Critical Theorists' Latest Target: Critical Theorists
· 10 min read
Fearful Norwegians Wonder: Are 'Swedish Conditions' Coming to the Streets of Oslo?
· 7 min read

Adam Perkins

Narrow Roads of Bozo Land: How We Came to Be Governed by Online Mobs
· 10 min read
Norms of Good Governance: Where Do They Come From?
· 11 min read
“It Has Come to My Attention
”  How Institutional Complaints Procedures are Being Weaponized
· 7 min read

Amy Eileen Hamm

Are We Dating the Same Guy?
· 5 min read
I’m Being Investigated by the British Columbia College of Nurses Because I Believe Biological Sex Is Real
· 8 min read
A Lady’s Duty to Submit—Then And Now
· 11 min read

Angus Fox

When Sons Become Daughters: It’s Time to Admit That Reflexive ‘Affirmation’ Has Been a Mistake
· 16 min read
When Sons Become Daughters, Part VI: Asexuality, Intelligence, and the Trans Co-Option of Intersex Discourse
· 12 min read
When Sons Become Daughters, Part V: The Links Between Trans Identity, Gifted Minds, Categorical Thinking—And Anime
· 17 min read

Bo Winegard and Ben Winegard

The Twilight of Liberalism?
· 14 min read
In Defense of Scientism
· 14 min read
The Preachers of the Great Awokening
· 13 min read

David Bernstein

Dead Civilians and the Allocation of Blame
· 8 min read
Woke Antisemitism: A Reckoning
· 10 min read
The New Ideological Gatekeepers of American Judaism
· 5 min read

David C. Geary

Sex Differences in the Brain and the Mind
· 12 min read
The Rise of Father Absence and Its Attendant Social Ills
· 13 min read
Understanding the Rise of Transgender Identities
· 13 min read

Elena Shalneva

Against Dilettantes
· 9 min read
Postmodernism: Some Corrections and Clarifications
· 8 min read
In Defence of the Humanities
· 8 min read

Helen Joyce

The Truth about Autogynephilia
· 17 min read
She Who Must Not Be Named
· 6 min read
Meet the Gay Activists Who've Had Enough of Britain's Ultra-Woke Homophobes
· 9 min read

Jamie Kilstein

The Cancelation of Shane Gillis Provides the Mob with Another Win
· 7 min read
Breaking the Norm
· 8 min read
I Sold My Soul on Twitter. Now I’m Trying to Win It Back
· 8 min read

Robert C. Thornett

Siberia: Russia’s Neglected Heartland
· 9 min read
The Odyssey of Classical Education
· 8 min read
The Athens of Asia: A History of Gaza
· 9 min read

Iona Italia

In Praise of Negativity Bias
· 5 min read
Imposing Order on Grief
· 23 min read
The Extraordinary Life of Tom Nash
· 19 min read

Julian Adorney

Stop Dunking on Trump Supporters
· 9 min read
Virtuous Lies and Black Despair
· 10 min read
Why Does the Intersectional Left Defend Hamas?
· 8 min read

Leon Hadar

Populists Before Trump
· 9 min read
The Quincy Institute’s Middle East Fantasies
· 15 min read
The Prophet of October 7?
· 12 min read

Marian L. Tupy

Anti-Colonialism's Bad History
· 6 min read
Goodbye to Hong Kong?
· 6 min read
Beware Your Innate Pessimist
· 8 min read

Robert King

The Kind of Man Your Mother Warned You About
· 10 min read
What Does She See In Him?
· 6 min read
Running Amok
· 8 min read

Ronald Radosh

Misadventures of a Stalinist Stooge
· 23 min read
Belafonte Reappraised
· 18 min read
FDR and the Holocaust
· 26 min read

Thomas Doherty

American Assassinations
· 10 min read
An Eye for the Jugular
· 11 min read
“Be Vigilant, America”
· 10 min read

Timothy Cootes

Yassmin Abdel-Magied: The Woman On Whom Everything Is Lost
· 5 min read
A Good Word for the Contemptible Straight White Male
· 5 min read
Are the Gender Wars Just Getting Started?
· 5 min read

Vincent Harinam and Rob Henderson

All the Single Ladies
· 13 min read
Why White Privilege is Wrong—Part 2
· 15 min read
Why White Privilege Is Wrong—Part 1
· 14 min read

Libby Emmons

How Anonymous, Unproven Accusations Turned Mike Tunison's Career Into MeToo Road Kill
· 7 min read
We ‘Gender-Critical’ Feminists Pay a Price for Speaking Out. But the Price of Silence is Higher
· 9 min read
The Folly of Disappearing Art and Culture
· 7 min read

Lona Manning

The Stanford Rape Hoax
· 21 min read
Interrogating Jane
· 12 min read
What Is #DisruptTexts?
· 9 min read

Matthew Lesh

Australia's COVID Catch-22
· 8 min read
The End of Pestilence
· 13 min read
The Father of Capitalism and the Abolition of Slavery
· 8 min read

Michael J. Totten

The Liberal Internationalist
· 19 min read
America’s Forgotten Crisis
· 14 min read
Hofstadter’s Paranoid Style Revisited
· 9 min read

Philippe Lemoine

The China Syndrome Part IV: Did China Fudge its Data?
· 26 min read
The China Syndrome Part III: Wet Markets and BioLabs
· 32 min read
The China Syndrome Part II: Transmission and Response
· 37 min read

Ralph Leonard

Roman Polanski’s ‘Chinatown’ Fifty Years On
· 9 min read
Africa and the History of Civilisation
· 11 min read
Understanding the Jewish Catastrophe
· 12 min read

Rob Henderson

Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment—A Review
· 16 min read
When Men Behave Badly—A Review
· 12 min read
Persuasion and the Prestige Paradox: Are High Status People More Likely to Lie?
· 13 min read

Sandra Kotta

With Stories Like These, Who Needs Talent? Part IV: The Sadia Shepard Incident
· 16 min read
With Stories Like These, Who Needs Talent? Part III: The Spirit of the Age
· 15 min read
With Stories Like These, Who Needs Talent? Part II: English as a Dead Language
· 18 min read

Sebastian Cesario

An Unhelpful Study about Women in Physics
· 7 min read
Scientific Progress and the Culture Wars
· 8 min read
Schrödinger’s (Wo)Manhood
· 9 min read

Stuart Reges

Against Land Acknowledgements
· 8 min read
Radicalized Antiracism on Campus—as Seen from the Computer Lab
· 15 min read
Demoted and Placed on Probation
· 14 min read

Tanveer Ahmed

The Sexual Politics of Vasectomies
· 6 min read
Can Public Shaming be Useful?
· 7 min read
Taming the Lizard Brain
· 6 min read

Zachary Robert Caverley

Who Should Fund Science?
· 17 min read
Who Will Save Us From Racist AI?
· 9 min read
The Social Determinants of Health: Critique and Implications
· 12 min read

Randall Mayes

The Metaverse: Science Fiction or Reality?
· 9 min read
The Mismeasure and Misuse of GDP
· 10 min read
The Peculiar Economics of 3D Printing
· 10 min read

Scott Newman

Weekly Roundup and Paul Berman on Roya Hakakian
· 5 min read
Weekly Roundup and the Failure of Deterrence
· 6 min read
“Not Necessarily Nice Things” Uncomfortable Truths in Succession
· 8 min read

Geoffrey C. Kabat

Robert Kemp Adair (1924–2020)—Notes on a Friendship
· 19 min read
Clearing Out My Father’s Office
· 15 min read
Dogmatism, Data, and Public Health
· 20 min read

Andrew Gleeson

A Voice from the Heart
· 14 min read
The First Stone
· 10 min read
The Inimitable Barry Humphries
· 8 min read

Andrew Hammel

Narratives, Damned Lies, and Statistics
· 12 min read
It Doesn’t Make It Alright
· 15 min read
The Wrongful Exoneration of Adnan Syed Part II: The Legal and Media Circus
· 53 min read

Barbara Kay

The Young Elizabeth, Seen Through a Child’s Eyes
· 13 min read
Circling Back to My Grandfather’s Judaism, Seventy Years Later
· 14 min read
Drop Anchor: How COVID-19 Will Kill the Cruise Industry
· 6 min read

Benjamin Kerstein

Sex and Smashed Steel
· 25 min read
Rock of Ages
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A Single Global Standard for Internet Content Regulation Is a Recipe for Censorship
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The Classically Greek Roots of Civilizational Self-Doubt
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The Language of Totalitarian Dehumanization
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The Cancellation of Bertrand Russell
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Thatcher Warned Us to Go Slow on European Integration. Too Bad We Didn’t Listen
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Margaret Wente

When Trans Activism Becomes Government Policy
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The Religious Instinct in a Godless World
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How the Hong Kong Protestors’ Tactical Brilliance Backed Beijing into a Corner
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Man of Yesterday: Karl Marx and His Place in History
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Neal Stephenson’s Baroque Cycle: Science, Commerce, Freedom, and the Origins of Modernity
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The Culture War in Communication Studies
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Anti-Zionism and Antisemitism
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A Report From the Stanford Academic Freedom Conference
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A Stupid Cartoon and the University Ideology
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The West's Betrayal of Iranian Dissidents
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Time to Draw the Line in the Sand on Trigger Warnings
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The New York Times and the Importance of Conclusion Neutrality
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When I Was in Love with a Comparative Literature Student
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Get ‘Em While They’re Young
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The Genocidal Imagination
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Europe’s Virtues Will Be Its Undoing
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The Sad Truth About Traditional Environmentalism
· 8 min read

Niranjan Shankar

Misremembering the Korean War
· 15 min read
The Tragedy of American Diplomacy: A Rebuttal
· 15 min read
Revisiting Kirkpatrick
· 16 min read

Frederick R. Prete

ChatGPT, Lobster Gizzards, and Intelligence
· 10 min read
The ACT Discriminates
· 13 min read
Biology Won’t Solve Your Problems with Abortion
· 12 min read

Lisa Selin Davis

Gender-Transition Decisions Should Be Made by Families, Not the State
· 9 min read
A Desister’s Tale
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A Trans Pioneer Explains Her Resignation from the US Professional Association for Transgender Health
· 12 min read

Rob Brooks

The Tragedy of the Unwanted Child: What Ancient Cultures Did Before Abortion
· 13 min read
Diamonds Aren't Forever (And Neither is Your Love)
· 14 min read
Involuntarily Celibate: Explanations and Practical Solutions to a Dangerous Phenomenon
· 6 min read

Thomas P. Balazs

Art over Man: The Roger Waters Test Case
· 9 min read
They Told Me So
· 16 min read
The Maus That Roared
· 9 min read

Daniel Kriegman

Robert Trivers and the Riddle of Evolved Altruism
· 24 min read
Guilty and Insane
· 20 min read
The Transmogrification of Harvey Weinstein
· 36 min read

Joseph Paul Forgas

In Defence of Scientific Integrity and Due Process
· 5 min read
The Curious Case of Hungary
· 8 min read
The Tribal Threat to Liberal Democracy
· 10 min read

Robert Bryce

Hyping the Energy Transition
· 7 min read
California's Energy War on the Poor
· 11 min read
Washington Post and NPR Ignore the Rural Backlash Against Renewables
· 12 min read

Robert Ginzburg

Casualties of War
· 13 min read
Monkey with a Grenade
· 5 min read
An Englishman in Russia Bids His Daughter Farewell
· 6 min read

Laurie Wastell

The Disaster Artist
· 10 min read
The Rationalism and Romanticism of John Stuart Mill
· 11 min read
Orwell and Dalrymple on English Class
· 12 min read

Kushal Mehra

A Different Way of Doing Atheism
· 8 min read
Imagine There’s No Svarga: Rediscovering Cārvāka, India’s 2,700-Year-Old Atheistic Tradition
· 8 min read

Stephan Jensen

If Europe Wants Peace, It Must Prepare for More War
· 12 min read
Dear Americans: Your Politics Don’t Have to Be This Toxic
· 18 min read
The Hard Left and Populist Right Agree on All the Wrong Things
· 8 min read

Joe Lombardo

Heavy Lifting
· 10 min read
Underneath the Sun
· 11 min read
An Apology of the Body
· 9 min read

Anthony Eagan

Kazuo Ishiguro and the Uncanny Cascade
· 17 min read
Narcissism and Fraudulence
· 12 min read
Dostoevsky and the Pleasure of Taking Offense
· 14 min read

Stewart Slater

Robots, Rats and Hoverchairs: Three Dystopian AI Fantasies
· 9 min read
The Male Obsession with Ancient Rome
· 9 min read
The Subversive Conservatism of Rocky Balboa
· 8 min read

Dara Macdonald

The Great Misinformation Panic
· 8 min read
An Australian Perspective on Abortion
· 11 min read

Niamh Jiménez

Rethinking Authenticity
· 20 min read
Reject the Rules of the Social Media Game
· 20 min read
Against False Privilege
· 8 min read

Steven Tucker

Chasing the Ice Moon
· 10 min read
A Mummy by Any Other Name
· 15 min read
Affirming Your Inner Fursona
· 11 min read

Andrew Doyle

A Puritanical Assault on the English Language
· 19 min read

Joan Smith

Gaslighting Scottish Rape Victims in the Name of ‘Trans Inclusion’
· 17 min read
Queen of the Gender Crits
· 16 min read
Scotland’s Gender Meltdown
· 13 min read

Thomas Larson

Killing for a Quiet Life
· 7 min read
Bestseller Reparations
· 7 min read
A Universe of Fizzled Stars
· 11 min read

Robin Hanson

Beware Cultural Drift
· 12 min read
AIs Will Be Our Mind Children
· 7 min read
What Are Reasonable AI Fears?
· 13 min read

Alex Byrne

In Defence of John Money
· 12 min read
Trans Typologies: A Brief History
· 11 min read
Philosophy’s No-Go Zone
· 19 min read

Brad Strotten

New York Narcissism
· 5 min read
Desire and Ambition
· 11 min read
Dare to Be Brilliant
· 4 min read

Helen Pluckrose

How French Intellectuals Ruined the West
· 18 min read
Brexit and The Voice: Two Ill-Conceived Referenda
· 12 min read

Jay Sophalkalyan

The Case for a Merit-Based Immigration System
· 10 min read
Why Newly Independent Countries Must Reject Radical Decolonization
· 15 min read
The Deadly Logic of Decolonization
· 11 min read

Jacob Bielecki

Roger Corman: A Filmmaker’s Filmmaker
· 12 min read
Donald Duck and Bugs Bunny Fight Fascism
· 15 min read
How Superhero Franchises Are Killing Original Cinema
· 7 min read

Adam Garfinkle

Waltzing Down the Road to Hell
· 15 min read
Why Is the GOP Sticking with Trump?
· 13 min read
The Vilnius Fiasco
· 24 min read

Aaron Hanna

The Limits of Good Intentions
· 22 min read
Glenn Loury and the Great Partisan Divide
· 25 min read
The Limitations of Black Conservative Thought
· 34 min read

Aaron Sibarium

The Conservative Manifesto Buried in 'Avengers: Endgame'
· 10 min read
Are Anti-BDS Laws an Assault on Free Speech?
· 8 min read

Alex Gladstein

Can Governments Stop Bitcoin?
· 16 min read
COVID-19 and the Normalization of Mass Surveillance
· 10 min read
How Bitcoin Can Protect Free Speech in the Digital Age
· 7 min read

Alex Mackiel

The WEIRDest People in the World—A Review
· 7 min read
Socialization Isn't Responsible for Greater Male Violence
· 7 min read
What Explains the Resistance to Evolutionary Psychology?
· 19 min read

Alex Smith

Does Progress Exist?
· 10 min read
The Limits of Expertise
· 7 min read
Is the Internet Complete?
· 5 min read

Andy Lamey

Joseph Boyden Isn’t Indigenous. But his Historical Fiction Is Still Worth Reading
· 34 min read
The Libertarian Case for Rejecting Meat Consumption
· 20 min read
In the U.S. Campus Speech Wars, Palestinian Advocacy Is a Blind Spot
· 19 min read

Anna Slatz

Faced With Gender Propaganda at the Hockey Rink, One Coach Says No
· 7 min read
Inside the Woke Actors Studio: How I Trained Future Doctors to Police Their Pronouns
· 6 min read
The Sad Truth About ‘Fat Acceptance’
· 9 min read

Barrett Wilson

What Is This Thing You Call 'Social Justice'?
· 10 min read
Moral Panic, Then and Now
· 8 min read
I Was the Mob Until the Mob Came for Me
· 5 min read

Brad Cran

Lessons in Forgiveness, from a Bicycle Thief
· 24 min read
A Literary Inquisition: How Novelist Steven Galloway Was Smeared as a Rapist, Even as the Case Against Him Collapsed
· 43 min read
The Academic Mob and Its Fatal Toll
· 12 min read

Bradley Campbell

What the Right Gets Wrong about Social Justice Culture
· 9 min read
The Free Speech Crisis on Campus Is Worse than People Think
· 16 min read
Kevin Williamson, Jeffrey Goldberg, and Victimhood Culture
· 5 min read

Brian D Earp

Does Female Genital Mutilation Have Health Benefits? The Problem with Medicalizing Morality
· 24 min read
In Praise of Ambivalence — “Young” Feminism, Gender Identity and Free Speech
· 35 min read
The Unbearable Asymmetry of Bullshit
· 8 min read

Brian Russell Graham

Inquiry and Ideology in the Battle of Ideas
· 8 min read
On the Demise of Our Public Language
· 6 min read
Resisting the Postmodern Ascendancy: An Interview with Ernest Suarez
· 11 min read

Claire Fox

The Comment Awards Fiasco
· 9 min read
Do Britain's Muslims Have a Right Not to be Offended?
· 8 min read

Daniel Buck

What Progressive Educators Get Wrong About Creativity
· 11 min read
The Value of Knowledge
· 10 min read
The Problems with America's Best Teacher Training Programme
· 9 min read

David A. Eisenberg

The Barbarian Evasions
· 4 min read
Privilege-Checking in a World on Fire
· 5 min read
Of Heroic Deeds and Hysterical Masses
· 8 min read

David Adler

Analyst of Totalitarianism—Reading Simon Leys Today
· 15 min read
Straight to Hell: Millenarianism and the Green New Deal
· 11 min read
It's Time to Marginalize the University and Revive the Café
· 7 min read

David Evanier

Startling Intimations of Greatness
· 26 min read
A Rainy Day in New York—A Review
· 10 min read
Woody Allen's 'Apropos of Nothing'—A Review
· 12 min read

Debbie Hayton

I May Have Gender Dysphoria. But I Still Prefer to Base My Life on Biology, Not Fantasy
· 9 min read
A Plea To Trans Activists: We Can Protect Trans Rights Without Denying Biology
· 8 min read

Derek Hopper

Who Will Make Our Coffee in Pret?
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Platitudes About Terrorism Are Not Helping
· 4 min read
On Truth and Beauty
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Elio Martino

Training the Masculinity Out of Children
· 7 min read
"You're Fake News" The Unfortunate Reality of the Ad Hominem
· 6 min read
The Political Chimp
· 7 min read

Ewan Morrison

The Problem with Utopias
· 16 min read
Bunker Boy: Preparing for Apocalypse Since 1979
· 12 min read
Milan Kundera Warned Us About Historical Amnesia. Now It's Happening Again
· 8 min read

Genevieve Weynerowski

The Historian's Hubris
· 8 min read
Seeking Refuge in the Embattled Centre
· 12 min read
Privilege: a Term That Has Lost Its Utility
· 6 min read

Geoffrey Lehmann

Identity but Not as a Straitjacket
· 12 min read
Where Did We Come From? An Astonishing Hypothesis
· 19 min read
Music and Language, Cultural Identity and Fame
· 20 min read

George Gallatin