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Dec 5, 2024 | 
rutgers.edu | Julia Friedman
Before graduating from Rutgers and landing a job as a producer for NBC Nightly News, Dan Corey scored the biggest interview any student journalist could dream of: a conversation with then-President Barack Obama. Corey was the editor-in-chief of the student newspaper, The Daily Targum, in 2016 when Obama was named Rutgers commencement speaker.
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Oct 19, 2024 | 
quillette.com | John Aziz |Charlotte Allen |Robert Huddleston |Julia Friedman
When I first heard, the news hadn’t yet been confirmed: there were just swirling rumours that Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas, had been killed in Gaza. But then within a half-hour, the press carried a series of photos of a dead man, bearded and dusty, with his skull caved in, surrounded by a troop of teenage IDF grunts.
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Charlotte Allen |Robert Huddleston |Julia Friedman |Sonny Loughran
Jonathan Kay: In this week’s episode, I’ll be talking to scholar Musa al-Gharbi, author of the acclaimed new book, We Have Never Been Woke: the Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite, published this month by Princeton University Press.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Charlotte Allen |Robert Huddleston |Julia Friedman |Sonny Loughran
In September 2022, Netflix released Blonde, Andrew Dominik’s 167-minute adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates’s 738-page novel about the life and death of Marilyn Monroe. If the studio’s executives expected the film to be greeted with plaudits and awards, they were mistaken—most critics responded with scorching outrage to Dominik’s brutal and lugubrious take on the misfortunes of the screen icon and sex goddess who died following a self-administered overdose of Nembutal some sixty years before.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Robert Huddleston |Julia Friedman |Sonny Loughran |Benny Morris
A review of On Settler Colonialism: Ideology, Violence, and Justice by Adam Kirsch, 160 pages, W.W. Norton & co. (August 2024).
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Julia Friedman |Sonny Loughran |Benny Morris |Allan Stratton
In his most recent book, The War on the West, British conservative polemicist Douglas Murray describes a revealing episode that occurred in the United Kingdom. In late 2020, the Tate Britain gallery announced the permanent closure of its restaurant, which is decorated with a wrap-around mural painted in the late 1920s by Rex Whistler and titled Pursuit of Rare Meats. Two years prior, some members of the public had complained about the mural’s “stereotypical” representation of people of colour.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Daniel Kodsi |Julia Friedman |Sonny Loughran |Benny Morris
Debates on sex and gender have suffered from a want of moral and intellectual toughness. More detailed, less question-begging diagnoses are possible of why so many smart people shy away from publicly acknowledging that a woman is an adult human female. But there has been a gross failure of nerve. Most of the men known as “trans women” are sex-typical adult human males.
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Jun 5, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Allan Stratton |Jerry A. Coyne |Maarten Boudry |Julia Friedman
The Mad Max franchise is one of the more improbable successes in Hollywood history. It began in 1979 as an original, one-off, low-budget exploitation flick written, directed, and produced by first timers. The cast were no-name locals from a country on the other side of the world, and it featured an anti-hero who arrives at a bleak conclusion devoid of salvation or redemption.
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Jun 5, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Jerry A. Coyne |Maarten Boudry |Julia Friedman |Paul Berman
In this episode of the Quillette podcast, I talk to veteran technology journalist and statistician Timandra Harkness, author of Big Data: Does Size Matter? about her latest book, Technology Is Not the Problem. We discuss a wide variety of situations in which personalised technology is changing our lives, ranging from the ways in which 3D printing is revolutionising fashion to the AI bots that are changing the nature of dating.
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Jun 4, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Jerry A. Coyne |Maarten Boudry |Julia Friedman |Paul Berman
Like being struck by lightning, getting deplatformed—first invited to speak and then disinvited for your political views—is something you assume happens only to other people. But, unlike a lightning strike, it’s not a rare occurrence. The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE)’s ” of US universities lists 626 successful deplatforming attempts since 1998. This year alone, there have already been 110 attempts to cancel talks, most involving speakers sympathetic to Israel.
