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Podcast 142: Nancy Rommelmann and Michael Totten on Portland's Descent Into Violence—And Why They Finally Decided to Flee

Quillette‘s Jonathan Kay talks to two ex-Portlanders—Nancy Rommelmann and Michael Totten—about how the COVID-19 pandemic and a year of violent protests turned their once beloved city into a fractured, downwardly mobile arena for America’s culture war. Sources discussed in this podcast include: * Leaving Portland, by Michael

Quillette 28 Mar 2021 · 1 min read

'Allen v. Farrow': Intellectually Dishonest Propaganda Meets Emotional Blackmail

There is no doubt that part of the goal of Allen v. Farrow was to finish off both Allen’s career and his legacy by presenting a definitive guilty verdict in the court of public opinion.

Cathy Young 28 Mar 2021 · 26 min read

Thomas Sowell: Tragic Optimist

In his 2000 memoir A Personal Odyssey, Sowell recounts a parable that was read to him as a young boy and which he never forgot.

Samuel Kronen 27 Mar 2021 · 29 min read

Houses of Horrors

In some former British colonies, confronting the dispossession and murder of native peoples has prompted efforts at apology and restitution.

John Lloyd 27 Mar 2021 · 14 min read

Race and False Hate Crime Narratives

Press reports refer to activists condemning “anti-Asian racism” and fighting anti-Asian “hate.”

Heather Mac Donald 25 Mar 2021 · 12 min read

Culture, the Humanities, and the Collapse of the Grand Narratives

The socio-economic arguments are based on data indicating that the number of humanities graduates has declined rapidly since the financial crisis in 2008.

Sara Cederberg 25 Mar 2021 · 10 min read

Anti-Asian Discrimination Is Real and an Attack on American Values

The self-selection bias of immigrants does not dilute the story.

Manu Sarna 24 Mar 2021 · 6 min read

Fulton and the Case Against Normalcy

A long-ago speech by a foreign dignitary may hold the key to recovering some lost wisdom about how America came into this role in the first place.

Brian Stewart 23 Mar 2021 · 11 min read

Mailer and the Second Wavers

“The Prisoner of Sex”—in both magazine and book form—was largely a baroque riposte to Kate Millett’s bestselling feminist polemic Sexual Politics.

Charlotte Allen 22 Mar 2021 · 31 min read

Who Is the Real Threat to Autonomy and Flourishing Online?

It is misleading to characterize the web as a quasi-democracy.

Ray Scott Percival 21 Mar 2021 · 11 min read

Fifty Years of Fear and Loathing

Finding out the truth about any aspect of Hunter Thompson’s life is frustrating given his propensity for self-mythologising.

David S. Wills 21 Mar 2021 · 14 min read

Support for Scottish Independence Wanes as the SNP Is Engulfed in Scandal

Sturgeon and the Scottish nationalists have been far more successful at dragging the country into a culture war than improving the everyday life of ordinary Scots.

Kathrine Jebsen Moore 20 Mar 2021 · 7 min read

Sex, Drugs, and Antiquity

The underlying assumption of The Immortality Key is that the human need to reconcile itself with death is a core element of religion.

Clifton Ross 19 Mar 2021 · 10 min read

The Enduring Relevance of Czesław Miłosz’s ‘The Captive Mind’

It is into such pathologies that The Captive Mind delves, and why it has such application to our time.

Robin Ashenden 19 Mar 2021 · 11 min read

Raising Beef Cattle

It’s hard to imagine a more inaccurate description of the peace and contentment so apparent in this pastoral scene.

Tom Blanton 19 Mar 2021 · 16 min read

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