An Unscientific American
Editor-in-chief Laura Helmuth’s departure from ‘Scientific American’ last week is an object lesson in the dangers of mixing facts and ideology.
Michael Shermer
· 12 min read
media
A collection of 33 posts
Why Is Most Journalism About IQ So Bad?
It is easy to create a negative image of intelligence research because most people know very little about the topic. But distorting intelligence research does a disservice to the field’s hard-working scientists and the general public.
Russell T. Warne
· 13 min read
Kremlin Cash
The Tenet media scandal and the convergence of right-wing American punditry and Russian propaganda.
Cathy Young
· 9 min read
Unilateral Illiberalism
Tucker Carlson’s fawning interview with Vladimir Putin shows that he will never pose a threat to despotism.
Brian Stewart
· 8 min read
The Seven Laws of Pessimism
If life is better than ever before, why does the world seem so depressing?
Maarten Boudry
· 16 min read
Lights Out in America
The cowardice at America’s most important liberal publications is damaging democracy.
John Lloyd
· 12 min read
Failing the Hamas Litmus Test
The inflammatory Al-Ahli hospital hoax shows that much of the Western media remains compulsively addicted to dangerous and self-defeating war journalism.
Richard Landes
· 13 min read
Killed for a Rainbow Flag: Are Critics of Trans Ideology Responsible?
The inflammatory rhetoric that attempts to link hideous crimes like the recent shooting with legitimate concerns is misleading and misguided.
T.M. Murray
· 6 min read
Manufacturing Dissent
Activists and opinion-formers on the Left and Right have been persuaded that living under anything besides the kind of governance they want means they’ve been cheated.
George Case
· 9 min read
Media Contagion
Latter-day journalism is helping to realize its own false narratives.
Steve Salerno
· 14 min read
Our New, Subscription-Based World
Like Substack, Quillette is hoping to provide readers with more engagement, and less anger.
The Quillette Editorial Board
· 8 min read
Public Broadcaster, Private Celebrity
Lineker has embarrassed the BBC but the vexing problem of illegal immigration will still have to be addressed.
John Lloyd
· 7 min read
Scenes from a Marriage
In 2020, a British High Court judge ruled that actor Johnny Depp was probably a “wife beater.” Earlier this year, an American jury disagreed. Who got it right?
Charlotte Allen
· 70 min read
All About Dave
The tragic rise of a former comic, liberal, and Angeleno.
Ross Anderson
· 33 min read
Broken Incentives
The media’s incentives may be broken, but we as individuals do not have to be.
Claire Lehmann
· 12 min read