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Jun 10, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Craig A. Clifford |Maarten Boudry |Mike Cote |Jacob Bielecki
Given the well-documented and endlessly discussed epidemic of depression, anxiety, and suicide among young people, the widespread concern about mental health and mental well-being seems to be supported by good evidence. But this development is fairly recent. As a college professor for 40 years, I got to witness the change first-hand.
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Jun 10, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Maarten Boudry |Mike Cote |Jacob Bielecki |Christopher Snowdon
The Academic Boycott of Israel Is Selective, Unfair and Counterproductive. Sign Our Open Letter Below. Keep Reading From the Blog 29 May 2024 20 May 2024 27 Apr 2024 Join the newsletter to receive the latest updates in your inbox. Your email address Please check your inbox and click the link to confirm your subscription.
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Jun 6, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Jacob Bielecki |Christopher Snowdon |Doriane Lambelet Coleman |Allan Stratton
An account of all the lives Corman touched, the careers he helped to jump-start, and the genres he pioneered would fill several books. Keep Reading Damned in Amsterdam: A Bizarre Deplatforming We wanted to give a talk on how ideological bias hampers science—and were disinvited because of our politics.
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May 27, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Holly Lawford-Smith |Jacob Bielecki |Christopher Snowdon |Doriane Lambelet Coleman
There are at least three things that people might mean by ‘socially constructed’: that something is social, rather than natural; contextual, rather than universal; or that its importance has been inflated. Keep Reading Damned in Amsterdam: A Bizarre Deplatforming We wanted to give a talk on how ideological bias hampers science—and were disinvited because of our politics.
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May 5, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Lawrence Krauss |Mike Cote |Jacob Bielecki |Christopher Snowdon
Email sent! Check your inbox to complete your signup. A review of Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen; 400 pages; New York: Dutton (March 2024)As Chair of the Board of Sponsors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists from 2008–2018, I helped unveil the Doomsday Clock every year for a decade. That meant that each year, I sat down with my colleagues for several days and seriously contemplated how close we might be to the end of civilisation.
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Mar 6, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Kevin Mims |Marilyn Simon |Jacob Bielecki
I. On December 18, 1975, the Lutz family—George, Kathy, and their three young children—moved into a large house in the town of Amityville on Long Island.
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Mar 4, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Marilyn Simon |Jacob Bielecki |Stephen Akey
It is Lent. The time of year when a Christian is asked to contemplate her own sinfulness and mortality. We are given 40 days to do this. Take your time. No need to panic. This is a period of introspection. The prayers I recite pull away the layers of self-deceit and self-justifications that clamour within my inner voice.
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Feb 26, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Jacob Bielecki |Christopher Snowdon |Doriane Lambelet Coleman |Allan Stratton
The animation industry was perhaps the United States’ most potent cultural weapon during World War II. Keep Reading Damned in Amsterdam: A Bizarre Deplatforming We wanted to give a talk on how ideological bias hampers science—and were disinvited because of our politics. From the Blog 29 May 2024 20 May 2024 27 Apr 2024 Join the newsletter to receive the latest updates in your inbox.
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Feb 15, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Jonathan Kay |Jacob Bielecki |Christopher Snowdon |Doriane Lambelet Coleman
On July 11, 2022, U.S. President Joe Biden revealed the first awe-inspiring infrared views produced by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). A project more than a quarter century in the making, the JWST represents a technological leap over its 1990s-vintage Hubble predecessor. Since the new sun-orbiting telescope began operation, it’s already yielded a number of spectacular discoveries, including the existence of complex organic molecules in a galaxy over 12-billion light years away.
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Dec 7, 2023 | 
quillette.com | Jacob Bielecki |Herbert Bushman
This has been a tumultuous year for the American film industry. Numerous high-budget films have bombed at the box office, actors have gone on strike, and streaming services continue to threaten Hollywood’s traditional business model. Amid this upheaval, Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer (2023) became an unlikely blockbuster. Oppenheimer is very different from most popular films of the past fifteen years: it’s not a superhero movie or a sequel to a film series that peaked in the 1980s.
