Ronald A. Lindsay

May 15, 2024 | quillette.com | James Jackson |Matthew Adelstein |Kevin Mims |Ronald A. Lindsay

“There is no such thing as a moral or immoral book,” Oscar Wilde wrote in the preface to his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, “books are well written or badly written, that is all.” Wilde was correct. Moral considerations should be suspended when evaluating a work of art. A novel may contain unpleasant characters, but it does not follow that the novelist himself is immoral for creating those characters in the first place.

May 14, 2024 | quillette.com | Matthew Adelstein |Kevin Mims |Ronald A. Lindsay |Herbert Bushman

On 1 May, Florida governor Ron DeSantis announced that the sale of cultured meat grown from animal stem cells in a laboratory has now been banned in his state. “While the World Economic Forum is telling the world to forgo meat consumption,” he explained, “Florida is increasing meat production, and encouraging residents to continue to consume and enjoy 100% real Florida beef.” John Fetterman, the junior senator for Pennsylvania and a Democrat, endorsed the move the following day.

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.

May 12, 2024 | quillette.com | Ronald A. Lindsay |Ewan Morrison |Timandra Harkness |Iona Italia

A quiet revolution in the practice of medicine in North America has taken place within the last decade. Professional associations, medical schools, and an increasing number of physicians no longer consider the primary duty of the physician to be care of the individual patient, but rather social reform—in particular, the urgent goal of achieving equity by addressing the social needs of identity groups perceived as marginalised.

Mar 13, 2024 | quillette.com | Coel Hellier |Ronald A. Lindsay |Herbert Bushman |Megan Gafford

The concept of race, we are often told, is a social construct with no basis in biological reality. Some have argued that it was invented by white Europeans for the express purpose of constructing a racial hierarchy in order to justify slavery. According to cultural critic Kenan Malik, “Racism gave birth to race. The ancestors of today’s African Americans were not enslaved because they were black.