Doomscrolling into Adulthood
Reflections on the crisis of meaning afflicting not only Gen Z but all of us who are too online.
Iona Italia
· 7 min read
Social Media
A collection of 114 posts
The Soft Disinformation Contagion
How we learned to reason poorly with accurate data.
Jorge Iniesta Cases
· 7 min read
Why Is Substack Caught Up in Australia’s Social Media Ban?
Australia’s under-16s social media ban has proven wildly popular among parents, but nevertheless it was ill conceived and comes with worrying trade-offs.
Dara Macdonald
· 7 min read
The New Information Wars
Generative AI, disinformation, and the dangerous temptation of benevolent censorship.
John Aziz
· 7 min read
Rage Is Now the Machine
Angertainment capitalises on ordinary democratic conflict by selling it back to us as spectacle.
George Case
· 7 min read
Brainrot, Not Ideology
The assassination of Charlie Kirk shows how Discord, memes, and “online brainrot” may motivate disaffected youth more than ideology.
Claire Lehmann
· 6 min read
Feelings, Facts, and Our Crisis of Truth
What we lose when the rigour of science and journalism gives way to an aural and visual narrative culture.
Claire Lehmann
· 7 min read
The Radicalisation of Young Women
We often hear about the radicalisation of young men—especially in the wake of hit show Adolescence—but far less attention is paid to the growing radicalisation of young women.
Claire Lehmann
· 1 min read
A New Dark Age?
Political scientists have always extolled the ideal of the informed voter, but information has become a cacophony.
George Case
· 9 min read
Information Warfare: Why America Needs a Deterrence Strategy
Humankind’s propensity to believe convenient fiction is as old and strong as our propensity for war. The United States needs to adopt a pragmatic deterrence strategy.
Gary Geipel
· 6 min read
REDnote and the TikTok Refugees
If they manage to stay on REDnote long enough, former TikTokers will surely begin to notice that all is not as it seems in modern China.
Aaron Sarin
· 6 min read
How the Media Broke the Immigration Debate
What good is a free press if it lacks the courage to ask difficult questions about our most important problems?
Tomás Sidenfaden
· 11 min read
From Skies to Screens
Our experience of the world is increasingly mediated by digital technology. This is stripping us of our sense that the physical landscape is infused with meaning.
Robert Huddleston
· 9 min read
Misinformation Is Bad. Prohibiting It Is Worse
A proposed Australian law aimed at blocking false content would likely be applied selectively—and thereby further erode public trust in mainstream information sources.
The Quillette Editorial Board
· 9 min read
The Return of Right-Wing Cancel Culture
It is dispiriting to watch some of the staunchest critics of woke politics engaging in their own brand of cancel culture.
Josh Allan
· 6 min read