After Trump’s Iran Decision
The real dilemma is not between war and negotiation. It is between episodic action and sustained architecture.
Allen Zeesman
· 7 min read
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Islamism: Shooting the Messenger
The British establishment tends to deflect attention from the dangers of Islamism by attempting to silence those who point them out.
John Aziz
· 8 min read
The End of Australian Exceptionalism
The surge in support for Australia’s populist right-wing party One Nation suggests that immigration restrictionism has become increasingly popular with voters: a political trajectory that echoes that of many other Western nations.
Eric Kaufmann
· 9 min read
Ezra Klein’s Feeble Liberalism
Liberals must act aggressively to uphold the values of free society.
Brian Stewart
· 10 min read
Trump’s Iranian Dilemma
President Donald Trump must choose between a military strike on Iran, whose consequences no one can predict, and a deal that would leave the Islamic Republic still able to attack its own citizens, menace Israel, and export terrorism worldwide.
Benny Morris
· 10 min read
Podcast #325: Why We Need to Talk About Transgender School Shooters
Jonathan Kay speaks with journalist Adam Zivo about the 10 February school shooting in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia—a mass murder perpetrated by a trans-identified male gunman who was initially identified by police and journalists as a woman.
Quillette
· 3 min read
Nine Intellectual Virtues
Either universities appoint and promote professors who display and disseminate intellectual virtues, or they reward those who exemplify and cultivate intellectual vices.
Nigel Biggar
· 6 min read
The Cost of Indifference
The sad and curious case of the chronic fatigue syndrome.
Samuel Kronen
· 16 min read
Bertrand Russell’s Cancellation and the Ongoing Battle Over Campus Speech
How religious conservatives cancelled philosopher Bertrand Russell in 1940, sparking academic freedom debates that echo today.
James Huffman
· 7 min read
Terror and Transformation
Southeast Asia in World War II, Part Two: The Japanese Occupation and Its Repercussions
Imran Said
· 12 min read
Silence on Sudan
In Sudan, a civil war involving Arab supremacists backed by the UAE has left as many as 400,000 dead and displaced twelve million. The silence on campus is deafening.
Steven Strauss
· 7 min read
Oikophobia and the Crisis of Western Democracy with Shany Mor | Quillette Cetera Ep. 62
An Israeli former National Security Council official examines Australia’s anti-Israel protests, the rise of antizionism in Western academia, and the growing crisis of democratic confidence across the West.
The End of the Middlebrow Movie
Middlebrow movies weren’t just two-hour escape pods, they functioned as a civic glue, a source of shared language, cross-generational references, and indeed, contemporary American myth.
Harrison Kass
· 7 min read
The Artemis Project
The race is on to build a base for permanent human habitation on the Moon.
Peter Hague
· 7 min read
Canada’s Unmarked-Graves Farce Continues Apace
Almost five years after falsely claiming it had found graves of 215 Indigenous children, the Kamloops First Nation has announced the supposed crime scene may never be excavated—but could instead be preserved as a ‘Sacred Site.’
Jonathan Kay
· 8 min read