World Affairs - Quillette (Page 7)

Denial and Defamation: The ITN-LM Libel Trial Revisited (I)

And those who continue to protest the trial’s outcome invariably do so as part of an implicit—and frequently explicit—attempt to invalidate the reckoning with Living Marxism’s record of defamation and denial that the trial was intended to provide.

Jamie Palmer

1 Nov 2019 · 33 min read

Palestine Misunderstood

Humeniuk’s essay lends implicit support to the notion that a Palestinian state will be modern, open, and peaceful, if not positively progressive, and not the bastion of fanaticism that exists in Israelis’ fearful imagination.

Petra Marquardt-Bigman

31 Oct 2019 · 10 min read

Tyranny's Mouthpiece

In other words, Syrian government propaganda is almost perfectly aligned with the arguments Blumenthal and Khalek have been making for years.

Matt Johnson

26 Oct 2019 · 9 min read

The New York Post Whitewashes the Plight of Egypt's Copts

The least we should expect from Western Christians is that they refuse to become accomplices in our persecution.

Samuel Tadros

22 Oct 2019 · 9 min read

China's Looming Class Struggle

Being able to improve the lives of the people was always seen as a critical element assuring the Imperial “mandate of heaven.”

Joel Kotkin

18 Oct 2019 · 11 min read

Ramallah For Beginners

Many of the most renowned symbols that unify Palestinians are connected to political revolutionaries.

Michael Humeniuk

18 Oct 2019 · 9 min read

Corporate Subservience to China Exposes the Hypocrisy of Woke Capitalism

China’s ability to make America’s biggest companies dance to its tune exposes woke capitalism as the sanctimonious scam that it is.

Zaid Jilani

15 Oct 2019 · 8 min read

A Shameful Betrayal

Brian Stewart

11 Oct 2019 · 5 min read

Colourful umbrellas used in a protest in Hong Kong by people in gas masks.

Hong Kong: First Line of Defence against a Rising Fascist Power

The total authoritarian control that Xi craves has been denied to him for the first time since he took office.

Aaron Sarin

28 Sep 2019 · 7 min read

In the U.S. Campus Speech Wars, Palestinian Advocacy Is a Blind Spot

This silencing campaign presents itself as inclusive and therapeutic. In reality, it poses a significant threat to intellectual and academic freedom, yet one that seems perennially overlooked in the campus speech wars.

Andy Lamey

18 Sep 2019 · 19 min read

War at the Tip of a Rhino Horn

What the Rangers do they do on behalf of all of us—for every rhino loss is a global loss.

Nathan Edmondson

10 Sep 2019 · 9 min read

A Letter From Hong Kong

The myths of the obedient Hong Kong child, of the disciplined dronelike worker, of the person who puts money above everything else, are shattered for ever.

Peter Baehr

3 Sep 2019 · 7 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

1 Sep 2019 · 11 min read

How the Hong Kong Protestors’ Tactical Brilliance Backed Beijing into a Corner

Just as they are doing with seemingly every obstacle in their way, Hong Kong protesters innovated around the need for a strong leader.

Nick Taber

19 Aug 2019 · 9 min read

The Hell of Good Intentions—A Review

Walt is always thinking of ways to blame the most vexing international problems on liberal hegemony. From proliferation to terrorism to Trump, he sees its malignant influence everywhere he looks.

Matt Johnson

6 Aug 2019 · 14 min read