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Oct 5, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Benny Morris |Ari Gandsman |Meghan Murphy |Charles Murray
Vladimir Ilych Lenin reportedly once said that “there are decades in which nothing happens and there are weeks in which decades happen.” We are now in the midst of such weeks.
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Oct 4, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Zoe Booth |Ari Gandsman |Meghan Murphy |Charles Murray
In this conversation, Roger Berkowitz unpacks the lasting relevance of Hannah Arendt’s thought, emphasising her practical approach to politics. Arendt, known for her scepticism of intellectuals and bureaucracy, was less interested in abstract philosophy and more focused on how we navigate power and truth in the real world. Berkowitz also explores Arendt’s complex stance on Zionism and antisemitism—supporting a Jewish homeland while critiquing ethnonationalism.
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Oct 4, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Ari Gandsman |Meghan Murphy |Charles Murray |Aaron Sarin
[00:00:00] Jonathan Kay: Welcome to the Quillette podcast. I’m your host, Jonathan Kay, a senior editor at Quillette. Quillette is where free thought lives. We are an independent, grassroots platform for heterodox ideas and fearless commentary. If you’d like to support the podcast, you can do so by going to Quillette.com and becoming a paid subscriber. This subscription will also give you access to all our articles, and early access to Quillette social events.
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Meghan Murphy |Charles Murray |Aaron Sarin |Brian Stewart
Lin Robinson-Young isn’t a well-known figure. On social media, the Victoria, B.C.-based social-justice activist self-describes as an “autistic thembo nerd” who seeks to “free Palestine”; but otherwise provides scant biographical information, and attracts few followers.
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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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May 29, 2024 | 
claremontreviewofbooks.com | Kyle Smith |Michael Anton |Mark Helprin |Charles Murray
Victorian leaders really were eminent, Simon Heffer insists in his long and authoritative social, political, and intellectual history, High Minds: The Victorians and the Birth of Modern Britain. A journalist and historian, Heffer argues that we must credit the Victorians with a broad and deep range of reforms that brought archaic systems into alignment with the demands of modernity.
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Mar 21, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Carole Hooven |Meghan Murphy |Charles Murray |Aaron Sarin
Email sent! Check your inbox to complete your signup. For years now, sports experts and culture warriors alike have been fiercely contesting the issue of whether transwomen (males who live and identify as women) should be eligible to compete in the female categories of numerous sports—including rugby, swimming, weightlifting, and disc golf. But last August, this debate entered an unexpected domain: the game of chess.
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Mar 2, 2024 | 
thedispatch.com | Charles Murray
Imagine someone whose childhood ranks at the very bottom in every dimension—neglect, foster homes, adoption into a family that breaks up—but who, unbeknown to any of the people around him, has an intellect at the very top. As an adult, he brings his intellect to an account of what such a childhood looks and feels like from the inside. That’s what you get with Rob Henderson’s newly published book, Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class.
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Nov 21, 2023 | 
claremontreviewofbooks.com | Colin Dueck |Jeffrey Anderson |Charles Kesler |Charles Murray
When not accusing their fellow citizens of being fascists, American progressives enjoy cooking up impractical schemes for what they call global governance. The Left-liberal vision of U.S. foreign policy cherished by progressives is more impatient with, and even openly disdainful of, the national interest than it used to be, but no major conservative political figure has refuted the Left’s vision at book length since the Cold War.
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Aug 11, 2023 | 
thedispatch.com | Jonah Goldberg |Stephanie Murray |Patrick Brown |Charles Murray
Jonah Goldberg is editor-in-chief and co-founder of The Dispatch, based in Washington, D.C. Prior to that, enormous lizards roamed the Earth. More immediately prior to that, Jonah spent two decades at National Review, where he was a senior editor, among other things. He is also a bestselling author, longtime columnist for the Los Angeles Times, commentator for CNN, and a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.
