A collection of 105 posts
Humankind’s propensity to believe convenient fiction is as old and strong as our propensity for war. The United States needs to adopt a pragmatic deterrence strategy.
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.
What good is a free press if it lacks the courage to ask difficult questions about our most important problems?
Our experience of the world is increasingly mediated by digital technology. This is stripping us of our sense that the physical landscape is infused with meaning.
A proposed Australian law aimed at blocking false content would likely be applied selectively—and thereby further erode public trust in mainstream information sources.
It is dispiriting to watch some of the staunchest critics of woke politics engaging in their own brand of cancel culture.
Technology steers my life along tracks chosen for my digital double, not for me. But this proxy personalisation wouldn’t work at all if I didn’t play my part.
Every censorship regime in history has claimed to be protecting the public. But no regime can have prior knowledge of what is true or good. It can only know what the approved narratives are.
Instagram being #HereForYou? Hahaha, please
Aggressive content moderation is presented as a necessary response to hate speech and misinformation—but it's more like a moral panic.
Since 10/7, young social-media users have been inundated with memes that present terrorists as social justice champions.
Exhibitionism, voyeurism, and the cycle of judgement.
Contemporary feminist thought is correct to identify the male gaze as the default way of seeing, but has largely overlooked the fact that the gaze places power squarely in the hands of women, not men.
Much as Substack originally supplied writers with a turnkey newsletter operation, Notes provides us with a turnkey form of community-building.
Like Substack, Quillette is hoping to provide readers with more engagement, and less anger.