Quillette Narrated

Two strands of Mill's philosophy were profoundly in conflict. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The current approach to energy and environmental policy isn’t just unsustainable—it has put us on a collision course with reality. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Donald Trump has an opportunity to influence the Qatari monarchy away from supporting jihad and towards promoting peace. But will he take it? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How did this famed sexologist become reviled at both ends of the culture-war horseshoe? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Zoroastrians of India, are a tiny and rapidly shrinking group. Yet they exclude women who marry out and their offspring from their community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Despite serious flaws, ‘Captain America: Brave New World’ is much better than Marvel’s recent offerings. Perhaps the franchise may have turned the corner. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Forecasts that Nigel Farage will become UK prime minister now attract expressions of anxious concern not mockery from the liberal commentariat. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Created as a haven for free thinkers, UATX was the last place where I’d expected to encounter ideological litmus tests. By Ellie Avishai. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alexandre Dumas’s novel is by turns an adventure story, a paean to bourgeois values, and a Greek epic. No wonder it continues to fascinate.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The simplest way of defining oikophobia is as the opposite extreme of xenophobia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The colonisation of Australia was neither a "peaceful settlement" nor a bloody conquest. It was a Malthusian swamping: the inevitable and tragic result of contact between hunter gatherers and agriculturalists. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What caused L. Ron Hubbard to turn on a discipline he had once accepted? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The idea of an Australian republic is attractive to some, but there's a strong case for a humble head of state. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Despite the uncertainties and tensions that characterize modern political life, we would do well to remember that the future we want is never the future we actually get, and that civilisation will outlast the fragility of politics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I have never seen a dream present something I believed to be untrue. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Let us not confuse the freedom to speak with the freedom to mislead. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In a speech at the University of Western Ontario Faculty of Law, Jonathan Kay shared insights from investigating a controversy at the university's teachers college. The story involves Margaret Munn, a middle-aged educator who faced backlash for questioning the concept of "decolonization" in a course titled "Indigenous Education: Towards a Decolonizing Pedagogy." Munn was reported to the Equity, Di...

Louis Theroux’s new documentary suggests that he is unfamiliar with the complex history behind the Israeli occupation of The West Bank, and does not understand the political and ideological factors at stake there. By John Aziz. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How the battle for the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act was fought, won, and nearly lost again. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What happens when the values of multiculturalism conflict with homophobic, misogynistic, and deeply anti-democratic strains of Islam?   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Progressive anti-Zionism and the poisonous legacy of Cold War hatred. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The magisterial incomprehensibility of Bob Dylan’s ‘Visions of Johanna.’ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The campaign to remove Hamas from the UK’s list of proscribed organisations is not about defending free speech or political dissent. It is about legitimising jihadist warmongering. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Adnan Syed would never have been released had ‘Serial’ not been made. Advocacy journalism must be treated with caution. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices