Big Tech and Regulation—A Response to the Quillette Editors
The fallout has been intense and has gripped the professional commentariat.
Allen Farrington
· 7 min read
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Why We Should Read Martin Amis
Amis is in love with English, and the marriage is a healthy one.
Riley Moore
· 10 min read
COVID Has Forced Teachers to Confront Longstanding Problems—And Education Will Never Be the Same
Teaching online and in-person concurrently is disorienting, and I spend the day fearful that I am doing a disservice to both groups.
Joshua Pauling
· 8 min read
Three Plane Rides and the Quest for a Just Society
It is the willingness to commit such sacrilege that distinguishes the reactions of Sue and hooks from that of King.
Aaron Preston
· 15 min read
Degree Requirements for Police Officers Will Not Make Us Safer
Relegating police training to outside universities smacks of duty shirking; it should be the responsibility (and purview) of police departments to train law enforcement professionals effectively.
Nicholas Sharrer
· 12 min read
Rise of the Coronavirus Cranks
The smileys are not bad people. They are not necessarily unintelligent people. They are unhappy people wearing a mask of happiness, confused and beaten and searching for an easy answer.
Christopher J. Snowdon
· 19 min read
Republicans' Lyceum Moment—and America's
In the present moment, reverence for the law is not yet (or is no longer) a political religion in the United States.
Brian Stewart
· 6 min read
Britain Needs a New Approach to Homelessness
The money offered by benevolent citizens and the abundance of cheap drugs act as a magnet for the area.
Noel Yaxley
· 11 min read
Philosophers Smear One of Their Own for Gender Heresy
Why do philosophers so often uncritically support the conventional views of the time and place in which they find themselves?
Nathan Cofnas
· 7 min read
The Wisdom of a Slave: A Defence of Stoicism
Stoicism avoids such unwelcome consequences.
Andrew David Irvine
· 10 min read
Ray Russell's Incubus: A Lost Gem from America's Twentieth Decade
Hard as it might be to believe, the years that stretched from roughly 1967 through the bicentennial year of 1976 brought even more foment, outrage, unrest, and upheaval to America than the most recent decade has managed. The escalation of the Vietnam War, the student protests against that war, the
Kevin Mims
· 15 min read
Social-Media Oligopolists Are the New Railroad Barons. It's Time for Washington to Treat Them Accordingly
In American First-Amendment jurisprudence, Brandenburg’s name is now a byword for the test that is used in assessing the validity of laws against inflammatory speech—especially speech that can lead to the sort of hateful mob activity that played out at the US Capitol last Wednesday.
Quillette
· 11 min read
Songs from Orwell's Glass Asylum
Bowie’s album beautifully captures the essential romance in the story.
David Cohen
· 10 min read
To Expower the People
Expowering is a transitional measure since you cannot fire your way to equity.
Theodore Gioia
· 12 min read
Tennessee Williams and Woody Allen: Kindred Spirits to Illuminate our Tragicomic Existence
Allen and Williams are united by a sensibility that can be described as tragicomic, even if each inflects it differently.
Paul Hawkins
· 8 min read