The End of the Islamic Republic of Iran?
The regime is a victim of its own fanaticism, corruption, and incompetence.
Shay Khatiri
· 7 min read
Politics
A collection of 737 posts
I Was Invited to Testify on Energy Policy. Then Democrats Didn't Let Me Speak
What, exactly, had I said that was so dangerous as to lead Democrats to engage in character assassination and undermine liberal democratic norms? Nothing I hadn’t already said last January when I testified before Congress about climate change and energy.
Michael Shellenberger
· 6 min read
The Great Awokening and the Second American Revolution
The past is raked over for imperfections as left-modernist ideologues render the most grievance-based interpretation of history imaginable.
Eric Kaufmann
· 22 min read
From India’s Himalayan Border to Our Local Cell Networks, It’s Time to Push Back Against China
The Indian border is only one of the many fronts on which China has been taking advantage of the worldwide economic downturn and political paralysis caused by COVID-19 to move aggressively—an ironic result given the source of the disease.
Cleo Paskal
· 8 min read
PODCAST 93: David Frum on His New Book, Trumpocalypse: Restoring American Democracy
Listen onSpotify David Frum talks to Jonathan Kay about the damage done by the Trump presidency and the way forward for America. His new book is Trumpocalypse: Restoring American Democracy.
Quillette, Jonathan Kay
· 1 min read
PODCAST 92: Journalist Cathy Young on Her Investigation of Tara Reade
Quillette, Cathy Young
· 1 min read
Do We Really Want a New Cold War?
Politicians and the commentariat keep shouting “China is not our friend!” But friendship is a good thing, the most rewarding of all human relationships.
James Hankins
· 6 min read
Dumbing Fascism Down, Then And Now
Stalin publicly misused the term so often, in fact, that Princeton history professor Stephen Kotkin has suggested he lacked a fundamental understanding of the word’s meaning.
Bradford H.B.
· 8 min read
PODCAST 91: Oxford's Thomas Hale on Measuring the Variation in Government Response to COVID-19
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Quillette
· 1 min read
COVID-19 and the Normalization of Mass Surveillance
A culture war over privacy looms.
Alex Gladstein
· 10 min read
Enough With the Phoney 'Lockdown' Debate
It’s been fuelled, on both sides, by the presumption that government decrees work as a sort of magic wand that will bring our economies (and perhaps the most acute phase of the pandemic) back to life.
Jonathan Kay
· 10 min read
The Case for a Mandatory COVID-19 App
Given a choice between closing the mall to everyone or opening it and refusing entry to a few with an alert on their app, which is better?
Sean Welsh
· 8 min read
Bernie Sanders and the ‘Revolutionary’ Whitewashing of Communist Tyranny
But Sanders’ position is exceptional in that it flies in the face of both mainstream Democrats and Republicans, including even fellow progressive leftist Elizabeth Warren.
Tony Frangie Mawad
· 10 min read
Don't Test, Don't Tell: The Bureaucratic Bungling of COVID-19 Tests
The offenders include rich countries like the United States and Japan, vast countries like Indonesia and India, communist countries like China and Vietnam, theocracies like Iran and Saudi Arabia, oligarchies like Russia and Nigeria, social democracies like Germany and France.
Ben Hunt
· 8 min read
As Erdoğan Weaponizes Turkey's Migrants, Greece Pays the Price
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis tweeted on Sunday. “The borders of Greece are the external borders of Europe. We will protect them.”
Nektaria Stamouli
· 6 min read