Architecture as Revenge Brady Corbet’s panoramic epic, ‘The Brutalist,’ may be technically brilliant, but it is a cheat and a fraud. Charlotte Allen 3 Feb 2025 · 15 min read
Podcast #270: ‘The Politics of the Academy Have Been Defeated’ Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Yale English professor-turned-essayist William Deresiewicz, who argues that Americans—many Democrats included—are fed up with campus-style progressive radicalism. Quillette / William Deresiewicz 1 Feb 2025 · 9 min read
Evolutionary Psychology in the Humanities: Shakespeare’s Othello Othello and Iago represent two enduring behaviours whose conflicts have shaped much of humanity’s theory of mind and moral emotions to the present day. Helen Pluckrose 31 Jan 2025 · 17 min read
The Open Society and Its New Enemies What Karl Popper’s classic can teach us about the threats facing democracies today. Matt Johnson 29 Jan 2025 · 27 min read
Hamas and the Red Cross What remains of the ICRC’s ostensible commitment to “neutrality, impartiality and independence” has been destroyed by the Gaza war. Gerald M. Steinberg 29 Jan 2025 · 9 min read
REDnote and the TikTok Refugees If they manage to stay on REDnote long enough, former TikTokers will surely begin to notice that all is not as it seems in modern China. Aaron Sarin 28 Jan 2025 · 6 min read
The Life and Death of a Medical Study A 2015 study found that black newborns attended by white doctors die at twice the rate of those in the care of black doctors. The study’s refutation last year has not altered the progressive narrative of systemic racism in medicine. Stewart Justman 27 Jan 2025 · 9 min read
The Hard and Soft New Right In Central and Eastern Europe, the more extreme wing of the continent’s radical Right is gaining ground. John Lloyd 27 Jan 2025 · 12 min read
Australia Day Dreaming On Australia Day, we should recognise the blackfellas, the whitefellas, and the fellas of all shades in between. Sean Welsh 25 Jan 2025 · 11 min read
The Original Aboriginals Australia is one of the only places where humans maintained a hunter-gatherer lifestyle into the modern era. This makes it an invaluable window into humanity’s deep past—a window that is closing. Mungo Manic 25 Jan 2025 · 10 min read
The Thunder from Down Under If Bach was the sound of God whistling while he worked, AC/DC was the sound of God ordering another round in a strip club on Saturday night. George Case 25 Jan 2025 · 9 min read
Podcast #269: Ancient Australians Quillette podcast host Iona Italia talks to “Mungo Manic” about his extensive research into the lives of the ancient Australians. Quillette / Mungo Manic 24 Jan 2025 · 65 min read
Why There Will Not Be a Beige Future Skin colour, genetics, race, and racism. Razib Khan 23 Jan 2025 · 5 min read
We’ve Known It for Years: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Programs Don’t Work Corporate America needn’t have waited for Trump or the Supreme Court: The business case for ditching DEI has been sitting in plain sight for years. David Millard Haskell 22 Jan 2025 · 6 min read
