Conor J. McKinley

Apr 8, 2024 | quillette.com | Leon Hadar |Herbert Bushman |Conor J. McKinley

Measuring social change by particular expressions of popular culture is an imperfect science. A hit novel, song, or TV show may tell us something about the values of the underlying society that generated it. Alternatively, it may simply be a single illustration selected to support a pre-existing hypothesis, easily countered by illustrations that demonstrate the opposite. Sometimes a fad is just a fad.

Apr 8, 2024 | quillette.com | Leon Hadar |Herbert Bushman |Conor J. McKinley |Marilyn Simon

Este artículo de Benny Morris se publicó originalmente en inglés en Quillette.com el 27 de febrero de 2024. Como vimos en el salvaje asalto de Hamas al sur de Israel el 7 de octubre, los palestinos ciertamente han sido protagonistas activos en su batalla de más de un siglo contra el sionismo e Israel. Pero el New York Times lo presentaría de otra manera.

Apr 6, 2024 | quillette.com | Leon Hadar |Herbert Bushman |Conor J. McKinley |Marilyn Simon

A review of The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Life of Frantz Fanon by Adam Shatz; 464 pages; New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (January 2024). Most observers deemed the Hamas attack on October 7 to be a shocking and brutal orgy of torture, murder, rape, and abduction. But not a Somali-American writer named Najma Sharif, who tweeted, “What did y’all think decolonisation meant? Vibes? Papers? Essays? Losers.” That tweet was liked by over 100,000 people, including a Washington Post journalist.

Apr 5, 2024 | quillette.com | Herbert Bushman |Conor J. McKinley |Marilyn Simon |Jonathan Kay

The article that follows forms part of The So-Called Dark Ages, a serialized Quillette history of Late Antiquity, adapted from Herbert Bushman’s ongoing Dark Ages podcast. This instalment is the fourth dedicated to the Huns. To read previous instalments, tracing the history of the Goths, click here. Priscus of Panium was an Eastern Roman government official based in Constantinople, and was in his thirties when he undertook his famous journey to the lands of the Huns.

Apr 5, 2024 | quillette.com | Pamela Paresky |Herbert Bushman |Conor J. McKinley |Marilyn Simon

Pamela Paresky: So you are Israel's Special Envoy for Combatting Antisemitism. Tell me a little bit about that role and also tell me what you did before you came into that role. Michal Cotler-Wunsh: So in many, many ways everything that I did before coming into this role prepared me to hit the ground running when appointed to this role.