Quillette Narrated

A serious reexamination of this case must begin by setting out the evidence that led the jury to convict. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Last week’s TED Talks in Vancouver featured dozens of brilliant speakers. But the earnest belief that big new ideas can save humanity from itself now feels painfully dated. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Five decades after its release, Wake in Fright remains a brutally captivating reminder that modernity is just a thin veneer over the darker recesses of the human heart. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The environmental havoc is justified as needed for the economy, but the evidence does not support this claim. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Its ability to churn out such plausible sounding explanations for historical and social phenomena is part of Marxism’s core appeal. But its grand theoretical framework simply does not hold up. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The media’s obsessive focus on the Israel–Palestine conflict obscures the broader picture of the ubiquity of jihadism in the Middle East, and the crucial role it plays in stoking and perpetuating turmoil and strife. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

My best friend had a psychotic break—our criss-crossing journeys through facts and fictions in thirteen chapters. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Arguments that patriarchy exists in the West today are largely dependent on reinventions of the concept that would be better dispensed with.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jay Anson’s haunted-house yarn was a highly lucrative hoax, but it struck a popular chord amid the financial precarity of 1970s America. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What Karl Popper’s classic can teach us about the threats facing democracies today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The state should not assume the right to end the lives of its citizens at will. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The history of Soviet totalitarianism is now being rewritten. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Every generation or so (i.e., roughly every 25 years) a woman (it’s always a woman) writes a book about kinky sex—and a very specific type of kinky sex. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How Alexis de Tocqueville foretold the rise of victimhood culture. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The accepted view is that the scientists of the European Enlightenment got the issue of race badly wrong. In fact, some of them got more right than they are usually given credit for. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Peter Beinart has responded to the 7 October massacre and subsequent Gaza war with a deeply duplicitous book. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Both Israelis and Palestinians have a reasonable claim to live in the Holy Land, based on deep local roots. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Activists on both sides have an incentive to keep Critical Race Theory undefined and ambiguous. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Civil-rights law made the DEI world; civil-rights reform can unmake it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Those seeking to address the crisis on America’s campuses should resist the tendency toward nihilism—the temptation to conclude that we need to just (metaphorically) burn it all down. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

While we fuss over definitions and pontificate on freedoms, sex and lust and desire and passion and bodies coming together, remain largely undomesticated. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A short history of phoney peace groups and their fellow travellers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Skin colour, genetics, race, and racism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The death toll under Communist regimes is of incredible magnitude. Yet whenever I attack Communism for being an evil ideology, I get a serious number of rebuttals. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A New York Times op-ed by a Yale historian tries to see universities from the vantage point of an outsider. Instead, it unwittingly illustrates why universities will not self-correct without external intervention. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices