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Dec 9, 2024 | 
nzherald.co.nz | David Cohen
Burgers and fries, perhaps not as we know them, are likely to be a fond feature of food in 2025. Photo / Getty ImagesFried egg-flavoured potato chips? Meat crisps? Alternative flours? Aphrodisiac menus in restaurants? Oh, what fun the culinary year ahead looks set to be, and where would we all be without food writers gazing into their crystal balls and offering their own taste of things to come?
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
spectator.co.uk | David Cohen
Around 35,000 thousand demonstrators descended on the capital of New Zealand this week, many of them adorned in traditional native dress amid a fluttering sea of red, white and black ‘Maori sovereignty’ flags. They were there to decry a bill looking to redefine New Zealand’s founding treaty. The Treaty Principles Bill, introduced earlier this month by one of the National party-led government’s junior coalition partners, has virtually no chance of becoming law.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
wfxrtv.com | David Cohen |John Leicester |Emily Wang Fujiyama |David Biller
Some are well-worn warnings as familiar as the changing of seasons. Others are slow burns that end with a bang. Still others are just plain eerie. Stories of spiritual entities, paranormal activity and creepy cryptids are passed through generations the world over, becoming local legends that only sometimes reach across borders and cultures.
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Charles Murray |Aaron Sarin |Brian Stewart |David Cohen
Last week, Amy Wax, the Robert Mundheim Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania (“Penn”) and three-time recipient of awards for excellence in teaching, was stripped her of her chaired professorship, suspended for a year at half pay, and denied summer pay in perpetuity. Why? As far as I can tell, for telling her students the truth in the classroom and exercising her constitutional right to express her private opinions outside the classroom. Penn’s administration doesn’t see it that way.
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Sep 30, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Aaron Sarin |Brian Stewart |David Cohen |Iona Italia
The tiny Pacific island of Guam sits just off the lip of the Mariana Trench, a fissure in the sea bed that plunges to the hadal depth of 36,000 feet (around 10,973 metres)—deeper than any other part of the world’s oceans. Guam also lies on the eastern edge of the modern world’s most perilous geopolitical zone, where unstable nuclear powers and multiple flashpoints could soon cause the entire region to fall into the abyss of war.
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Sep 29, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Brian Stewart |David Cohen |Iona Italia |Holly Lawford-Smith
The military response was late, but when it finally arrived, it hit the target. On 27 September, an Israeli airstrike on a Beirut bunker eliminated Hezbollah’s general secretary Hassan Nasrallah. This operation was the boldest stroke yet in an Israeli campaign that began ten days before with the detonation of thousands of pagers and walkie-talkies used by Hezbollah’s operatives, continued with the targeting of the group’s senior military leaders, and has now decapitated the organisation entirely.
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
quillette.com | David Cohen |Iona Italia |Holly Lawford-Smith |Benny Morris
It is probably fitting that the academic I contacted to discuss Nick Cave was Tanya Dalziell, a professor of English and cultural studies at the University of Western Australia, in Perth. For nearly 45 years now, her charcoal-voiced fellow countryman—besuited in black and proffering bouquets of flowers from the pit—has been offering us songs of love and hate.
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Sep 15, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Jonathan Kay |Nick Osmond-Jones |Greg Lukianoff |David Cohen
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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Sep 11, 2024 | 
quillette.com | David Cohen |Sean McMeekin |Andrew Hartz |Paul Berman
In the department of non-news, the recent revelation that Bruce Springsteen has moved from E Street to Easy Street and joined the billionaire ranks of Taylor Swift, Rihanna, and Paul McCartney deserves a tick. Yes, the working-class hero from New Jersey may now have the disposable cash to buy a highway fit for broken heroes, but his reviews have long been worth a billion bucks as well. This year marks the anniversary of the first and most influential of those notices.
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Aug 22, 2024 | 
thejc.com | David Cohen
In the aftermath of the Second World War, a new Jewish American male came of age: combative, intellectual, unashamedly masculine and indelibly shaped by the style and swagger of New York City. Among its eminences were Irving Howe, Norma Podhoretz, and Norman Mailer, the “Jewish mama’s boy, who longed to be taken for a tough Irishman”, as one of his fellow club members put it.
