Cathy Young

Nov 28, 2024 | quillette.com | Razib Khan |Heather Mac Donald |Benny Morris |Cathy Young

In 2016, it was often said that the long 20th century of American culture and politics had ended. More precisely, an epoch in which Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal liberalism jousted with Reaganite market conservatism ended with the election of Donald J. Trump. Trump’s policy positions and voter base defied the binaries to which American politics had become accustomed; once-conservative Virginia was now a Democratic redoubt while blue-collar West Virginia became deep-red Republican.

Nov 27, 2024 | quillette.com | Benny Morris |Cathy Young |Rob Brooks |David Stoll

Last Wednesday, 20 November, Israel’s leading daily, Haaretz, ran a full-length advertisement on its front page—a highly unusual occurrence.

Sep 10, 2024 | quillette.com | Sean McMeekin |Andrew Hartz |Paul Berman |Cathy Young

Communism as a ruling doctrine is a relatively recent phenomenon in historical terms, dating back just over a century—or, if we count parties bearing the name, such as the Communist League of Marx and Engels (c. 1847–48), about 175 years. But the idea of material or social equality lying at the heart of Communist theory traces back deep into antiquity, and it is worth examining the different strands of thought that have informed and inspired modern Communists. In The Republic (c.

Sep 9, 2024 | quillette.com | Andrew Hartz |Paul Berman |Cathy Young |Richard Dawkins

Few thinkers have had a global impact comparable to Sigmund Freud’s. His theories continue to influence mental health care, as well as the arts, literature, philosophy, and nearly every subject in the humanities and social sciences. Despite this impact, his work is a tough sell. He’s tied to bizarre theories about childhood sexuality, attacks on religion, judgmental and crazy psychoanalysts, and grandiose claims that haven’t stood the test of time.

Sep 8, 2024 | quillette.com | Paul Berman |Cathy Young |Richard Dawkins |Greg Koabel

I wrote this essay in the spring of 2024, and it ran in the summer issue of Liberties, the American print quarterly. By the time the issue came out, though, which was in July, the difficult topic that my essay addressed had swollen into something still more difficult. This was the wave of virulent anti-Zionism that had arisen in the American universities and in the art-and-literary world and a few other places in the immediate aftermath of the 7 October 2023 massacre.