Purity, Profit, and Politics
How journalism exchanged the duty to inform for an ethic of customer satisfaction.
A collection of 69 posts
How journalism exchanged the duty to inform for an ethic of customer satisfaction.
Bob Vylan’s “death to the IDF” chants at Glastonbury reveal how Britain’s economic despair has radicalised a generation and threatens to revive ancient hatreds.
If we hadn’t spent so long pretending that ‘trans women are women,’ the growing political movement to align our laws with biological reality wouldn’t have been necessary.
Created as a haven for free thinkers, UATX was the last place where I’d expected to encounter ideological litmus tests.
Israeli intelligence and the Hamas attack on 7 October 2023.
Let us not confuse the freedom to speak with the freedom to mislead.
Joe Sacco’s graphic works provide vivid and moving depictions of the terrible suffering in the Strip. But his accounts of the causes of that suffering are simplistic and one-sided in the extreme.
In a recent speech delivered at the University of Western Ontario Faculty of Law, a Quillette editor describes lessons he learned while investigating the school’s teachers college.
Adolescence is a moving work of art but a misleading representation of the challenges facing British boys.
How Trump’s tariffs and foreign policy signal the third phase of US decline on the world stage.
Populist rhetoric and the hidden costs of economic illiteracy.
Valid critiques of progressive moralism have devolved into an embrace of anything-goes strongman rule.
President Trump’s protectionist policies are erratic, ill-defined, and incoherent.
The media’s obsessive focus on the Israel–Palestine conflict obscures the broader picture of the ubiquity of jihadism in the Middle East, and the crucial role it plays in stoking and perpetuating turmoil and strife.
My best friend had a psychotic break—our crisscrossing journeys through facts and fictions in thirteen chapters.