Jamie Palmer

Aug 23, 2023 | quillette.com | John Lloyd |Samuel Kronen |Jamie Palmer

In 1932, a charismatic aristocrat named Sir Oswald Moseley founded the British Union of Fascists, an organisation that strove to popularise the ideas and strategies of Italian Fascism and German Nazism, including the hatred of Jews, Roma, homosexuals, and the disabled. Within a few years, it had recruited some 40–50,000 members. Moseley and most of the BUF’s membership (including Moseley’s wife) were interned by the British government in 1940, and the organisation was banned.

Aug 22, 2023 | quillette.com | Samuel Kronen |Jamie Palmer |Andrew Gleeson

“The second book you publish,” Shelby Steele’s editor once told him, “is the hardest one you will ever write.” In Steele’s case, it turned out to be his best. After the publication of The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race in America in 1990, Steele found himself in the intellectual spotlight on the most contentious issue in the country. That experience changed his life.

Aug 19, 2023 | quillette.com | Jamie Palmer |Matt Johnson |Kara Jesella

On January 31st, 2020, Anthony Fauci, who was then director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Diseases, emailed the director of London’s Wellcome Trust with worrying news. Scripps Institute researcher Kristian G.

Aug 10, 2023 | quillette.com | Andrew Gleeson |Samuel Kronen |Jamie Palmer

In May 2017, representatives of Australia’s indigenous peoples—Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders—met at Uluru, the great monolith at the physical centre of the continent which serves as the symbolic heart of the country. After four days of deliberation, they released an appeal to the Australian people called the Uluru Statement from the Heart. The language of the Statement is concise, temperate, and moving. Its tone is neither that of an importunate beggar nor of an incendiary activist.

Mar 13, 2023 | quillette.com | Jonathan Kay |Jamie Palmer