James Kierstead

1 month ago | quillette.com | Adam Garfinkle |Jonathan Kay |Greg Koabel |James Kierstead

HOST: Welcome to the Quillette Podcast, which is usually hosted on alternate weeks by me, Jonathan Kay, and by Iona Italia. Quillette is where free thought lives. We are an independent, grassroots platform for heterodox ideas and fearless commentary. And this week, we’ll be talking about Ukraine—a subject that is at the top of the headlines thanks to the bizarre diplomatic spectacle that took place at the White House on Friday during a visit from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

1 month ago | quillette.com | Adam Garfinkle |Jonathan Kay |Greg Koabel |James Kierstead

As I absorbed the collected enormities disgorged by the second Trump administration on the topics of Ukraine and NATO over the last few weeks—first in Brussels, then in Munich, then in Washington, then in Riyadh, and finally in the Oval Office—I was reminded of the following exchange from Lewis Carroll’s 1871 novel Through the Looking-Glass: “There’s no use trying,” Alice said to the White Queen: “One can’t believe impossible things.” “I daresay you haven’t had much...

1 month ago | quillette.com | Jonathan Kay |Greg Koabel |James Kierstead |Brad Strotten

“I find this story astonishing as an outsider,” a British historian told me on social media last week. “Can I just confirm what I believe to be the case: There is no proof of any burials… just GPR [ground-penetrating radar] ‘anomalies’ [that] haven’t been investigated? The 215 children are, as things stand, entirely notional?”The answer, in a word, is yes.

2 months ago | nzinitiative.org.nz | Oliver Hartwich |Eric Crampton |James Kierstead

Reports & Media > Podcasts > Podcast: Responding to Salmond: Democracy, Classical Liberalism, and the Regulatory Standards Bill Podcast: Responding to Salmond: Democracy, Classical Liberalism, and the Regulatory Standards Bill In this episode, James, Eric and Oliver critique Dame Anne Salmond's Newsroom article that characterises the proposed Regulatory Standards Bill as part of a broader neoliberal agenda to undermine democracy in New Zealand. They challenge both Salmond's immediate...

Jan 23, 2025 | nzinitiative.org.nz | James Kierstead

New Zealand, we love you. We love you Aussies. Jacinta (Do you mean Jacinda? – Ed.) Ardern, not so much. OK, maybe you didn’t split the atom and you don’t know how to play football, but we love you. You’re a proud, free nation and you stand up for your principles. That’s why my good friend Peter Thiel is a New Zealander.  But this is going to be a Golden Age for the United States of America.