Why Has Kamala Harris's Campaign Fizzled?
The logic of a Harris candidacy rests on her coalition-building skills.
Josh Adams
· 5 min read
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PODCAST 52: Yale Law School Professor Anthony Kronman on the Crisis in American Higher Education
Yale Law School professor Anthony Kronman talks to Jonathan Kay about his new book The Assault on American Excellence in which he laments the decline of aristocratic values in America’s elite universities. Photo courtesy of Yale University.
Quillette, Jonathan Kay
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Against Determinism—A Brief Reply to Jerry Coyne
The unambiguous conclusion seems to be that people are better off believing in either libertarian free will (which grants us complete agency) or the intuitive compatibilism (which grants us compromised agency) that they tend to favour.
William Tomos Edwards
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‘Virtue Signalling’ May Annoy Us. But Civilisation Would Be Impossible Without It
Virtue signalling includes the best of human instincts, and the worst of human instincts.
Geoffrey Miller
· 9 min read
Keynes Has Left the Building: Remembering the 1976 Speech That Changed Modern Britain
Callaghan’s speech, a paean to the virtues of austerity economics several decades before the 2008 financial crisis, was a watershed moment in British politics.
Andrew Hindmoor
· 11 min read
A New Republic of Letters
Now, of course, letter-writing is dead, replaced by emails, texts, and social media. But we have lost something along the way—our social media feeds are often filled with drivel and do not provide an appropriate forum for long-form, constructive conversation and disagreement.
Daniel James Sharp
· 11 min read
The Feminist Case for Andrew Yang’s Freedom Dividend
A UBI system would do far more than any other policy proposed by the current set of Democratic candidates to reduce the vulnerability of such women.
Louise Perry
· 9 min read
Yaniv’s Other Racket: How a Single Gender Troll Managed to Get 'Hundreds' of Women Thrown Off Twitter
The larger discussion of how trans rights and women’s rights will be reconciled in coming years lies beyond the scope of this article.
Lindsay Shepherd, Jonathan Kay
· 9 min read
Why I Don’t Live in Fear of White Supremacists
If we start to restrict civil liberties, spread panic and exaggerate the amount of hate and violence in our societies, we will give terrorists what they want: greater control over our political narratives and personal psychology.
Zaid Jilani
· 7 min read
PODCAST 51: Carl Gardner on Britain's Constitutional Crisis
Carl Gardner, a former government lawyer, talks to Toby Young about Boris Johnson’s decision to prorogue parliament, whether it’s constitutionally legitimate, and what the political ramifications are.
Quillette
· 1 min read
Preventable Deaths and the Need for Data-Driven Journalism
My primary goal—and Dr. Tyson’s if I read his tweet correctly—is to provide context. It is perhaps inevitable that our biases will continue to inform the responses of the general public on social media.
Evan Balkcom
· 6 min read
For Students Who Grew Up Poor, An Elite Campus Can Seem Like a Sea of Wealth and Snobbery
The rich kids at Gulliver, those who drove Range Rovers and boasted of extravagant vacations, were not black. But at Amherst, many of my new wealthy classmates were.
Anthony Abraham Jack
· 12 min read
PODCAST 50: Nadim Kobeissi Discusses Facebook's Coming Cryptocurrency
Nadim Kobeissi, a professor at NYU and director of a cryptography consulting firm, tells Jonathan Kay about the risks posed by Libra, Facebook’s new cryptocurrency. Professor Kobeissi recently wrote about Libra for Quillette. Image: Courtesy of Symbolic Software.
Quillette
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I’m a Feminist Mother. But I Don’t Need a ‘Feminist Birth’
A birth away from hospital can be seen as a feminist act of resistance. But it’s not a form of resistance I want to join.
Amy Eileen Hamm
· 11 min read
PODCAST 49: Peter Boghossian talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay
Jonathan Kay talks to Portland State philosophy professor Peter Boghossian about his forthcoming book—How to Have Impossible Conversations. Feature photo by Andy Ngo
Quillette
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