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Mar 15, 2024 | quillette.com | Roger Bate |Freya India |Coel Hellier |Matt Johnson

As many regular listeners will know from her previous appearance on the Quillette podcast, Meghan Daum is a New York-based book author, writing coach, social-media maven, and, more recently, the woman behind a new set of events, known as The Unspeakeasy—where “intellectually curious women from everywhere on the political spectrum can talk honestly about complex issues and ask meaningful questions to which there are no easy answers.” Meghan joined us to talk about The Unspeakeasy and a dozen...

Mar 14, 2024 | quillette.com | Jason Andrew Garshfield |Roger Bate |Freya India |Coel Hellier

A review of the trilogyThe Remembrance of Earth’s Pastby Liu Cixin (The Three-Body Problem, 2006; the Dark Forest, 2008; Death’s End, 2010), 1472 pages, Chinese edition, Chongqing Publishing Group; English edition, Tor Books. Books 1 and 3 were translated from the Chinese by Ken Liu; book 2 by Joel Martinsen.  Contains spoilers. The aliens of the planet Trisolaris have a big problem: their world is locked in an unstable orbit around three stars.

Mar 14, 2024 | quillette.com | Roger Bate |Freya India |Coel Hellier |Matt Johnson

When COVID hit in the winter of 2020, hospitals were overflowing with the sick and dying. Public health experts worried that we’d be isolating for years because, although vaccines were possible, none had ever been developed in fewer than four years. Yet, within weeks of the identification of the virus’s genetic structure, two companies had settled on the basic frameworks for mRNA vaccines, which were then developed on an accelerated timeline.

Mar 13, 2024 | quillette.com | Greg Koabel |Freya India |Coel Hellier |Matt Johnson

What follows is the eighteenth instalment of The Nations of Canada, a serialized Quillette project adapted from Greg Koabel’s ongoing podcast of the same name. From early days, religion had been an awkward subject for Samuel de Champlain. On the one hand, any religious support for the exploration and colonization of Canada would have had to come from the Catholic Church—the official religious body of the French state.

Mar 13, 2024 | quillette.com | Freya India |Coel Hellier |Matt Johnson |Zoe Booth

We should be wary of teaching the next generation that identity is something that can be bought. Keep Reading On Confected Radicalism: Quillette Cetera Episode 31 A conversation with Quillette founder Claire Lehmann. From the Blog 23 Feb 2024 8 Feb 2024 Join the newsletter to receive the latest updates in your inbox.