A collection of 36 posts
Sam Tanenhaus’s new biography of William F. Buckley provides a rich and nuanced portrait of one of the most consequential public intellectuals in modern American conservative politics.
A new collection of Murray Kempton’s articles reveals a thoughtful journalist whose politics were difficult to categorise.
Political scientists have always extolled the ideal of the informed voter, but information has become a cacophony.
Editor-in-chief Laura Helmuth’s departure from ‘Scientific American’ last week is an object lesson in the dangers of mixing facts and ideology.
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.
The Tenet media scandal and the convergence of right-wing American punditry and Russian propaganda.
Tucker Carlson’s fawning interview with Vladimir Putin shows that he will never pose a threat to despotism.
If life is better than ever before, why does the world seem so depressing?
The cowardice at America’s most important liberal publications is damaging democracy.
The inflammatory Al-Ahli hospital hoax shows that much of the Western media remains compulsively addicted to dangerous and self-defeating war journalism.
The inflammatory rhetoric that attempts to link hideous crimes like the recent shooting with legitimate concerns is misleading and misguided.
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.
Latter-day journalism is helping to realize its own false narratives.
Like Substack, Quillette is hoping to provide readers with more engagement, and less anger.
Lineker has embarrassed the BBC but the vexing problem of illegal immigration will still have to be addressed.