PODCAST 67: Toby Young on Boris Johnson's Victory in the UK General Election
Quillette, Toby Young, Jonathan Kay
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Mayors Won't Rule the World
The emerging configuration of the new urban politics threatens many of the gains made over the past two decades.
Joel Kotkin
· 11 min read
Why Do Progressives Hate Gentrification?
One reason might be that they worry about the second kind of harm that accompanies gentrification: the changing culture and character of neighborhoods.
Coleman Hughes
· 7 min read
PODCAST 64: Mark Halperin on How to Beat Trump (It Won't be Easy)
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Quillette
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Fearful Norwegians Wonder: Are 'Swedish Conditions' Coming to the Streets of Oslo?
Immigrants from certain backgrounds—particularly Palestinians, Iraqis and Afghanis—were many times more likely to commit violent crimes than other Norwegians
Kathrine Jebsen Moore
· 7 min read
Why UBI Ought to Appeal to Conservatives
Republicans balk at the idea of UBI because it seems like an extreme version of your standard government handout. But it isn’t.
Cody Kommers
· 6 min read
Gates Derangement Syndrome
The suggestion that we ought to be suspicious of Gates’s work on global health—work that has saved millions of lives—because he made a slightly ambiguous comment about U.S. politics is not only absurd, it is also pernicious.
Matt Johnson
· 10 min read
Denial and Defamation—The ITN-LM Libel Trial Revisited, Part One: The Camps
The story of the ITN trip to Bosnia—and the bitter quarrel about its reporting that followed—is a cautionary tale about the destructive and deranging effects of ideological hubris.
Jamie Palmer
· 33 min read
PODCAST 58: Professor Brian Kalt—US Constitutional Law Expert—on the 25th Amendment
Listen onSpotify Brian Kalt, an expert on US constitutional law and the presidency, talks to Jonathan Kay about the 25th Amendment and whether it can be used to remove a president. Professor Kalt recently published a book called Unable: The Law, Politics, and Limits of Section 4 of the Twenty-Fifth
Quillette, Brian Kalt
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'Oikophobia': Our Western Self-Hatred
The simplest way of defining oikophobia is as the opposite extreme of xenophobia.
Benedict Beckeld
· 8 min read
The Political Excommunication of Erin Weir Betrays the Face of Modern Political Cowardice
Under the Canadian political system, party leaders are free to unilaterally block candidates, no matter the views of voters or the rank-and-file.
Eric Cline
· 15 min read
The Politics of Procreation
The trend towards post-familialism, a society in which the family and marriage are no longer central to society, will reshape our politics, economy, and society in the decades ahead.
Joel Kotkin
· 9 min read
Are Political Disagreements Real Disagreements?
If partisanship is shaping our perceptions of reality, then democratic decision-making becomes incredibly difficult.
Michael Hannon
· 9 min read
Gamers are the Easy—But Wrong—Target After Mass Violence
When members of other communities are involved in mass violence, we rightfully are cautioned not to reflexively blame the community as a whole, and gaming should get the same treatment.
Christopher J. Ferguson
· 7 min read
How the Hong Kong Protestors’ Tactical Brilliance Backed Beijing into a Corner
Just as they are doing with seemingly every obstacle in their way, Hong Kong protesters innovated around the need for a strong leader.
Nick Taber
· 9 min read