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Sep 24, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Dennis Saffran |Daniel McGraw |Daniel Mcgraw |Jonathan Kay |Megan Gafford
Introduction: My guest this week is Brianna Wu. Brianna is a software developer and Democratic political operative. I invited her onto the podcast for two reasons. Since the Hamas attack on Israel on 7th October, she has been a voice of reason on the left, pushing back against the anti-Zionist and increasingly antisemitic rhetoric among American progressive activists in particular.
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Sep 23, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Dennis Saffran |Daniel McGraw |Daniel Mcgraw |Jonathan Kay |Megan Gafford
“I was a conservative populist before Donald Trump came down the escalator.” I wrote those words two years ago when I participated in a Quillette roundtable organised to debate whether or not the GOP should continue to embrace populism.
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Sep 23, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Daniel McGraw |Daniel Mcgraw |Jonathan Kay |Megan Gafford |Benny Morris
As the November election approaches, the United States’ electoral system is coming under renewed scrutiny. The US uses an Electoral College system, which counts every person’s vote and then assigns that vote a value based upon the size of their state. States with larger populations get more Electoral College votes.
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Sep 20, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Jonathan Kay |Megan Gafford |Benny Morris |Matt Johnson
It’s now been more than three years since the eruption of Canada’s “unmarked graves” scandal, which followed claims that the secret resting places of 215 (presumably murdered) Indigenous children had been found in Kamloops, British Columbia. These shocking reports convulsed the entire nation, and produced a sense of collective shame—so much so that some jurisdictions cancelled their 2021 Canada Day celebrations.
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Sep 19, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Megan Gafford |Charles Murray |Aaron Sarin |Brian Stewart
Hitler became the butt of a joke: a failed artist with a funny moustache. But we rarely ask ourselves whether there is an equivalent example of a leftist whose totalitarian personality emerged, in part, because the world shrugged at his bid for creative genius. This was no idle question for Eric Hoffer, a philosopher of totalitarianism who helped shape the worldview of American presidents like Dwight D.
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
open.substack.com | Megan Gafford
A couple months ago, the New York Times ran a piece titled, “The Chrysler Building, the Jewel of the Manhattan Skyline, Loses Its Luster.” Though its stainless steel eagles still glisten above Midtown Manhattan, Anna Kodé describes how inside of this skyscraper from 1930, crumbling ceilings are patched over with duct tape and water fountains spew something brown. Both people and rats have been getting stuck between floors in its richly decorated elevators since the ‘80s.
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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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Mar 28, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Sohale Andrus Mortazavi |Cincinnatus Smith |Jaspreet Singh Boparai |Megan Gafford
A review of How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement by Fredrik deBoer, 256 pages, Simon & Schuster (September 2023). The left is undergoing an overdue reckoning. Progressive mass movements have achieved little more than mass in recent years. Occupy Wall Street didn’t beget economic redistribution, to say nothing of Marxist revolution. Large-scale marches for gun control and climate action produced neither.
