Reading Orwell in the Age of AI
Prescient about the possibility of machine-generated writing, George Orwell’s life and work offer a deeper warning about the LLM era.
A collection of 665 posts
Prescient about the possibility of machine-generated writing, George Orwell’s life and work offer a deeper warning about the LLM era.
From ISIS to the IRGC, how groups with sacred commitments outlast adversaries with far greater firepower.
After all these years, the Communist Party is still handcuffed to its American rival, and it is unable to break free.
Amid the great uncertainties produced by the Iran War, some likelihoods have begun to emerge.
If liberals wish to forge an alliance of convenience with a socialist and apologist for jihadist violence, they will be betraying the very values they profess to uphold.
In Iran, Donald Trump is showing us what a populist war looks like.
A selection of essays and interviews in Quillette examining how and why Iran and the West are at war, and what is likely to happen next.
Orbán’s defeat should scare the hell out of populist authoritarians.
The German state has been generous to its beneficiaries—but that largesse is becoming increasingly unsustainable.
Where local collaboration is absent, foreign intervention imposes enormous costs or simply stalls. Where it exists, intervention can succeed with surprising velocity.
Now that glyphosate has become a national-security issue, it’s time to revisit the source of misinformation about this controversial herbicide.
The structural case for why collectivist systems fail.
Israel and the United States have already done much to dismantle the Axis of Resistance, but the broader network supported by Iran remains most active in Western Europe.
Monuments don’t create legacy; they merely memorialise it.
Why the misunderstood sovereign UAE thrives, and why ideologues—from the Islamic Republic to the Muslim Brotherhood—are invested in its demise.