An Unscientific American Editor-in-chief Laura Helmuth’s departure from ‘Scientific American’ last week is an object lesson in the dangers of mixing facts and ideology. Michael Shermer 21 Nov 2024 · 12 min read
Why Is Most Journalism About IQ So Bad? It is easy to create a negative image of intelligence research because most people know very little about the topic. But distorting intelligence research does a disservice to the field’s hard-working scientists and the general public. Russell T. Warne 30 Oct 2024 · 13 min read
Kremlin Cash The Tenet media scandal and the convergence of right-wing American punditry and Russian propaganda. Cathy Young 8 Sep 2024 · 9 min read
Unilateral Illiberalism Tucker Carlson’s fawning interview with Vladimir Putin shows that he will never pose a threat to despotism. Brian Stewart 7 Mar 2024 · 8 min read
The Seven Laws of Pessimism If life is better than ever before, why does the world seem so depressing? Maarten Boudry 26 Jan 2024 · 16 min read
Lights Out in America The cowardice at America’s most important liberal publications is damaging democracy. John Lloyd 5 Jan 2024 · 12 min read
Failing the Hamas Litmus Test The inflammatory Al-Ahli hospital hoax shows that much of the Western media remains compulsively addicted to dangerous and self-defeating war journalism. Richard Landes 25 Oct 2023 · 13 min read
Killed for a Rainbow Flag: Are Critics of Trans Ideology Responsible? The inflammatory rhetoric that attempts to link hideous crimes like the recent shooting with legitimate concerns is misleading and misguided. T.M. Murray 1 Sep 2023 · 6 min read
Manufacturing Dissent Activists and opinion-formers on the Left and Right have been persuaded that living under anything besides the kind of governance they want means they’ve been cheated. George Case 29 May 2023 · 9 min read
Media Contagion Latter-day journalism is helping to realize its own false narratives. Steve Salerno 24 Apr 2023 · 14 min read
Our New, Subscription-Based World Like Substack, Quillette is hoping to provide readers with more engagement, and less anger. The Quillette Editorial Board 10 Apr 2023 · 8 min read
Public Broadcaster, Private Celebrity Lineker has embarrassed the BBC but the vexing problem of illegal immigration will still have to be addressed. John Lloyd 15 Mar 2023 · 7 min read
Scenes from a Marriage In 2020, a British High Court judge ruled that actor Johnny Depp was probably a “wife beater.” Earlier this year, an American jury disagreed. Who got it right? Charlotte Allen 18 Jan 2023 · 70 min read
All About Dave The tragic rise of a former comic, liberal, and Angeleno. Ross Anderson 15 Dec 2022 · 33 min read
Broken Incentives The media’s incentives may be broken, but we as individuals do not have to be. Claire Lehmann 11 Nov 2022 · 12 min read
