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Nov 21, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Michael Shermer |Matt Johnson |Brian Stewart |Joel Kotkin
The day after the 2024 election, journalist Paul D.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Zoe Booth |Benny Morris |Steve Salerno |Brian Stewart
This was originally published in The Australian on 4 November 2024. The backlash to Lidia Thorpe’s hate-filled tirade against an elderly, cancer-stricken King has attracted all manner of opinion and headlines over the last fortnight. According to Nikki Gemmell’s piece in The Weekend Australian, (“When females speak out, they’re punished”, 1–2/11), it’s almost entirely about her gender. But the response to Thorpe’s latest outburst had nothing to do with gender and everything to do with character.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Brian Stewart |Claire Lehmann |Kevin Mims |John Lloyd
In January, historian Niall Ferguson argued that the decision before Americans in the 2024 election was a stark choice between republic and empire. A Trump restoration presented a special menace to the American system at home while the Democrats’ feeble brand of global leadership—for which Harris was a faithful servant and ardent surrogate—would usher in a post-American global order.
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Sep 19, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Megan Gafford |Charles Murray |Aaron Sarin |Brian Stewart
Hitler became the butt of a joke: a failed artist with a funny moustache. But we rarely ask ourselves whether there is an equivalent example of a leftist whose totalitarian personality emerged, in part, because the world shrugged at his bid for creative genius. This was no idle question for Eric Hoffer, a philosopher of totalitarianism who helped shape the worldview of American presidents like Dwight D.
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Jun 14, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Jonathan Kay |Aaron Sarin |Brian Stewart |David Cohen
In 2022, the Toronto-based Globe & Mail newspaper ran an editorial attacking Canada’s federal Conservative opposition leader, Pierre Poilievre, on the basis that he hadn’t taken questions from Ottawa journalists for over a month.
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Mar 4, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Pamela Paresky |Oscar Clarke |Brian Stewart
Quillette contributor Pamela Paresky interviews Israeli academic Dan Schueftan about the Israel-Palestine conflict, why he wasn't surprised by October 7th, and his hopes for the future of Israel. Dan Schueftan was an advisor to Israel's National Security Council, and to former Prime Ministers Yitzhak Rabin and Ariel Sharon. He has served as a lecturer and researcher at several prestigious institutions, including the University of Haifa and the National Defense College of the Israel Defense Forces.
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Feb 17, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Allan Stratton |Brian Stewart |Joel Kotkin
The Oscars have never been about art. As Louis B. Mayer once remarked, recalling the creation of his brainchild, “I found that the best way to handle [moviemakers] was to hang medals all over them. If I got them cups and awards, they’d kill themselves to produce what I wanted. That’s why the Academy Award was created.” Awards had the further benefit of projecting an aura of respectability on a field then associated with vaudeville and debauchery.
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Jan 20, 2024 | 
nz.news.yahoo.com | Brian Stewart |Gary Yohe
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to [email protected]. Could steam-powered cars decrease the carbon dioxide in our atmosphere? – Emma, age 16, Springville, UtahWith the growing severity and frequency of storms, heat waves and wildfires, and the other dangers from climate change, there are many reasons to be concerned about the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
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Jan 20, 2024 | 
malaysia.news.yahoo.com | Brian Stewart |Gary Yohe
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to [email protected]. Could steam-powered cars decrease the carbon dioxide in our atmosphere? – Emma, age 16, Springville, UtahWith the growing severity and frequency of storms, heat waves and wildfires, and the other dangers from climate change, there are many reasons to be concerned about the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
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Jan 20, 2024 | 
ca.news.yahoo.com | Brian Stewart |Gary Yohe
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to [email protected]. With the growing severity and frequency of storms, heat waves and wildfires, and the other dangers from climate change, there are many reasons to be concerned about the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Scientists have shown that humanity’s addiction to burning fossil fuels is causing this problem, which means it’s time to kick that habit.
