Are Gamer Stereotypes Accurate?
An FBI investigation into the episode produced a heavily redacted report that satisfied no one.
Christopher J. Ferguson
· 8 min read
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COVID-19 and Liberalism
If liberal strategies end up providing weaker results than illiberal ones, liberals might want to revise not only their COVID-19 policy, but also some of their broader assumptions about human nature.
Kristijan Fidanovski
· 9 min read
Farewell, My Lovely
Chinatown is a remarkable blend of screenwriter Robert Towne and director Roman Polanski’s antipodal sensibilities.
Graham Daseler
· 14 min read
Will There Be a New Cold War with China? A Reply to Niall Ferguson
Americans have suddenly grown fearful of the growth of Chinese power.
Matt Johnson
· 9 min read
Pell’s Pyrrhic Victory
Pell became a public target onto which a deep well of private resentment—much of which was wholly irrelevant to his own conduct—could be directed when the opportunity arose.
RJ Smith
· 6 min read
Quillette's Quarantine Book Club: Readers Offer Their Suggestions, Part I
The series begins after the violence of the war to end all wars and ends in a time of strangely familiar contagion and spasmodic collapse.
Jonathan Kay
· 7 min read
Immigration and Inequality
For people without a foothold in the new service and financial businesses, it was harder to make ends meet.
Christopher Caldwell
· 8 min read
Where’s Harvey Weinstein Headed? It’s a Place I Know
Many people want to know where Harvey Weinstein is headed, especially now that it’s been revealed that he’s been infected with COVID-19.
Daniel Genis
· 6 min read
Sickness and Stoicism
And if indeed “everything hangs on one’s thinking,” as he and his philosophical heirs frequently remind us, then this pandemic is just as much an opportunity as it is a curse.
Roy Wayne Meredith III
· 7 min read
Land Repossessions Were Disastrous for Zimbabwe. Will South Africa Repeat the Same Mistakes?
The frontal attack on property rights of the country’s European farmers wiped out much of Zimbabwe’s export earnings and sent destructive ripples throughout the rest of the economy.
Marian L. Tupy
· 6 min read
“Amazon Empire” Struggles Under Its Own Contradictions
Like all Frontline documentaries, Amazon Empire, a yearlong effort with 57 on-record interviews, is a stellar investigation of labor malpractice, antitrust issues, and the growing privacy and data security concerns over Amazon’s Alexa and Ring products.
Steven Volynets
· 10 min read
The Erdoğanization of Hungary
The United States should learn from the Turkey experience.
Shay Khatiri
· 9 min read
‘10% Less Democracy’—A Review
Books like 10% Less Democracy help us consider what republican solutions might look like today.
Adam Wakeling
· 10 min read
COVID-19 Science Update for March 31st: Wear a Mask, Georgia's SSE, Kinsa's Fever Map
Both the scientific literature and media reports suggest COVID-19 transmission is most likely to take place (1) within families, and (2) through one-off SSEs of the type described above.
Jonathan Kay
· 7 min read
Warehouse Work in an Age of Contagion
As regular readers of Quillette will know, I work at a warehouse in West Sacramento, California, where every workday I toil in close quarters with dozens of other employees. In the days before the advent of the novel coronavirus pandemic, that wasn’t a problem. Now, however, it’s a
Kevin Mims
· 6 min read