Ritual Circumcision and Painful Initiation Rites in Aboriginal Australia
Quillette
· 1 min read
Videos
A collection of 76 posts
How Kazakhstan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Turkey Help Russia Evade Sanctions
Quillette
· 1 min read
Communism's Christian Roots with Sean McMeekin
Quillette
· 1 min read
The Language of Soviet Propaganda (Narrated)
Quillette
· 1 min read
Too Many Moons
This week’s announcement that Saturn has 274 officially recognised ‘moons’ raises the question of whether that word needs a more restrictive definition.
Lawrence M. Krauss
· 6 min read
The Political Foundations of the DOGE Scam
The Trump/Musk administration’s approach to cutting costs makes good political sense in the short-run. But from a longer-run governing perspective, it is a recipe for disaster.
R. Shep Melnick
· 7 min read
Monogamy and the Making of Western Civilisation
The institution of monogamy in Classical Greece may have led to a host of phenomena that shaped the modern West: from individualism and abstract thinking to liberalism and democracy.
James Kierstead
· 8 min read
Podcast #272: The Great Divergence
Iona Italia talks to evolutionary psychologist David C. Geary about why he believes evolved differences between the sexes have been growing more salient in western societies.
Quillette, David C. Geary
· 24 min read
Why There Will Not Be a Beige Future
Skin colour, genetics, race, and racism.
Razib Khan
· 5 min read
This Is Not Late-Stage Capitalism
Automation, artificial intelligence, and robotics are set to redefine the relationship between labour, capital, and production.
John Aziz
· 7 min read
Water Fluoridation: The Science and the Myths
Water fluoridation is a scientifically validated public health measure. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s campaign to eliminate it is unjustified scaremongering.
Henry I. Miller
· 3 min read
The Women of 7 October
In that moment, time stood still. There was no context, no history, no argument, no discourse. There was only pain.
Iona Italia
· 4 min read
Stoicism: A Life-Changing Philosophy
Stoicism is a workout that builds emotional strength, a caulking of the timbers to enable us to weather the coming storms—a preparation we make precisely because the ocean voyage is so rewarding.
Iona Italia
· 23 min read
Race Is a Spectrum. Sex Is Pretty Damn Binary
Male versus female is one of surprisingly few genuine dichotomies.
Richard Dawkins
· 12 min read
Disuniting Australia
What happens when the values of multiculturalism conflict with homophobic, misogynistic, and deeply anti-democratic strains of Islam?
Alan Davison
· 17 min read