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Aug 11, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Nigel Biggar |Jonathan Kay |Roya Hakakian |Herbert Bushman
When, in June, the International Criminal Court’s prosecutor sought arrest warrants for Israel’s prime minister and defence minister over their conduct in Gaza, the Conservative government objected that the ICC lacks jurisdiction over Israeli citizens. Last week, the new Labour incumbents of No. 10 abandoned that challenge. But lack of jurisdiction is only the weakest ground for objection.
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Aug 9, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Zoe Booth |Jonathan Kay |Roya Hakakian |Herbert Bushman
My guest, Suha Hassen, is originally from Iraq and now lives in the United States, where she is currently a doctoral candidate at George Mason University's School of Conflict Analysis and Resolution. Suha's work is crucial in promoting global safety by countering extremist narratives. In this conversation, Suha discusses the shifting dynamics within Islam, including how Hamas, traditionally Sunni, is moving towards Shiaism.
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Aug 9, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Jonathan Kay |Roya Hakakian |Herbert Bushman |John Lloyd
IntroductionJonathan Kay:Welcome to the Quillette podcast. Iâm your host, Jonathan Kay. Todayâs guest is Joan Smith, whom our Quillette readers will know from her detailed and scathing articles about the state of gender politics in Scotland, including her most recent offering, which appeared on August 4th, under the title, Gaslighting Scottish Rape Victims in the Name of Trans Inclusion.
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Aug 8, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Roya Hakakian |Herbert Bushman |John Lloyd |Kevin Mims
On 28 November 2023, the profile of a tenured professor at Oberlin College disappeared from the schoolâs website. Only a day earlier, typing Mohammad Jafar Mahallatiâs name into the siteâs search box returned a page with an extensive biography and links to several of his posts and videos. His photograph was there, too: a bearded man with a greying hairline and a reticent smile that suited his title of Professor of Peace and Friendship Studies.
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Aug 8, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Herbert Bushman |John Lloyd |Kevin Mims |Joan Smith
The article that follows forms part of The So-Called Dark Ages, a serialised Quillette history of Late Antiquity, adapted from Herbert Bushman’s ongoing Dark Ages podcast. This is the eleventh instalment, and the sixth dedicated to the Huns. To read previous instalments, tracing the history of the Goths, click here.
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May 14, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Matthew Adelstein |Kevin Mims |Ronald A. Lindsay |Herbert Bushman
On 1 May, Florida governor Ron DeSantis announced that the sale of cultured meat grown from animal stem cells in a laboratory has now been banned in his state. “While the World Economic Forum is telling the world to forgo meat consumption,” he explained, “Florida is increasing meat production, and encouraging residents to continue to consume and enjoy 100% real Florida beef.” John Fetterman, the junior senator for Pennsylvania and a Democrat, endorsed the move the following day.
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May 13, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Kevin Mims |Ronald A. Lindsay |Herbert Bushman |Megan Gafford
NOTE: The following essay discusses A Man in Full—the new Netflix series and the Tom Wolfe novel on which it is based. There are spoilers throughout. I. The new six-part Netflix miniseries A Man In Full is a binge-worthy piece of entertainment that bears little relation to the 1998 Tom Wolfe novel of the same name on which it is based. The show is written and created by David E.
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May 10, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Herbert Bushman |Megan Gafford |Ben Bayer |John Aziz
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 is the tenth instalment, and the fifth dedicated to the Huns. To read previous instalments, tracing the history of the Goths, click here.
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Apr 16, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Emma Hilton |Jonathan Kay |Herbert Bushman |Megan Gafford
Pity the poor clownfish—a brightly coloured creature, once made famous by the 2003 animated film Finding Nemo, which has now been reduced to a prop in the ongoing debate about sex and gender identity. That’s because, unlike mammals (including humans), clownfish are what scientists call “sequential hermaphrodites” of the protandrous variety. What this means is that while every clownfish starts out as male, some switch sexes if a female is needed by the school.
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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.
