Theo Jaffee

Jun 20, 2024 | quillette.com | Pamela Paresky |Leon Hadar |Benny Morris |Theo Jaffee

Psychologist and Quillette contributor Pamela Paresky travelled across Israel in the wake of October 7 and interviewed Israeli intellectuals, politicians, servicemen, and others about Hamas's attack on Israel, how it happened and how it's changed the country and the world. Below is a full list of all Pamela's interviews in this series.

Jun 20, 2024 | quillette.com | Leon Hadar |Benny Morris |Theo Jaffee |Joel Kotkin

Back in 2019, I was thrilled to hear about a new think tank devoted to advancing the case for foreign-policy realism. It would be named after the sixth US president John Quincy Adams, who famously stated that America “goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy.” How different things could have been, I thought, had a Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft existed in the months before President George W.

Jun 20, 2024 | quillette.com | Benny Morris |Theo Jaffee |Joel Kotkin |David Rush

On 8 October 2023, the day after Hamas’s assault on southern Israel, Lebanon’s fundamentalist terrorist organization, Hezbollah, began raining down rockets on Israeli military positions and settlements along the Lebanese border strip. The Israeli government—foolishly, I believe—ordered the immediate evacuation of the strip’s civilian population southward and—more wisely—mobilised and deployed three IDF divisions along the border to deter a Hamas-like invasion by Hezbollah.

Jun 19, 2024 | quillette.com | Alex Byrne |Joel Kotkin |David Rush |Theo Jaffee

Last weekend, I went to Manifest 2024, which was like a cross between a summer camp and a family reunion. Ostensibly a gathering convened to discuss prediction markets, it was really about everything intellectual. Attendees included rationalist and AI alignment pioneer Eliezer Yudkowsky, psychiatrist and blogger Scott Alexander, prolific George Mason University polymath (and prediction-market pioneer) Robin Hanson, and many other academics, writers, and thinkers simply interested in ideas.