George Perry

Dec 13, 2024 | jamesgmartin.center | George Perry

The May 2024 settlement in House v. NCAA was the most recent significant step towards an employee model for collegiate athletes. Reactions to the settlement varied widely across sports and stakeholders. One feature that is particularly worrying within smaller sports is the settlement’s elimination of scholarship limits and establishment of roster limits. If the House settlement is adopted, schools will have complete discretion over how they allocate and award athletic scholarships.

Aug 18, 2024 | quillette.com | Brad Strotten |Thomas Larson |Lawrence Krauss |George Perry |Bradley Strotten

A review of Ghost Chilli by Nikkitha Bakshani, 288 pages, Fleet (July 2024)In Ghost Chilli, the debut novel by London-based American writer Nikkitha Bakshani, progressive systems of belief compete for primacy in the disorganised personality of protagonist Muskan, an anxious psychobabbler and hyper-race-conscious Indian expat working for foodie magazines in New York.

Aug 15, 2024 | quillette.com | Thomas Larson |Lawrence Krauss |George Perry |Ralph Leonard

Though I’m a happily terrorised fan of John Krasinski’s dystopian films, A Quiet Place (2018) and A Quiet Place, Part II (2020), a question has been stalking me since their premieres. In these first two films, giant, human-gobbling praying mantises fall to earth and begin annihilating humankind. They cannot see, so they navigate and hunt by sound, their acute hearing provoking them to attack even the faintest sound. But why are they doing this? This remains a maddening mystery. Hunger? Malice? Revenge?

Aug 14, 2024 | quillette.com | Lawrence Krauss |George Perry |Ralph Leonard |Holly Lawford-Smith

James Bjorken—or Bj, as his friends and fellow physicists knew him—was probably not known to many people outside the particle physics community. But his impact on that field may have been as great as that of the recently deceased Peter Higgs. Like Higgs, only more successfully, Bjorken shied away from the limelight, didn’t care about honours, and preferred to simply do the work, rather than talk about it.

Jun 26, 2024 | jamesgmartin.center | George Perry

Corporate media owes a lot of its ideological conformity and hubris to journalism schools. Media critics and advocates for reform suggest that journalism needs to return to being a trade that one learns on the ground—through apprenticeships, beat reporting, and small-market outlets—rather than a profession where an advanced degree from the right institution is a cheat code to a high level of influence and access.