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1 week ago | quillette.com | Ari Blaff

Alek Minassian was an awkward kid in my high school. He’d meow at students in the cafeteria and could never look a woman in the eye. “I’m afraid of girls,” he often declared unprompted in a high-pitched childish voice. Most students thought it was a weird verbal tick.

2 weeks ago | quillette.com | Gadi Taub |Pamela Paresky

On 9 March, Pamela Paresky sat down with Gadi Taub in Tel Aviv to discuss the war in Gaza, the failures of Israel’s security establishment, and the ideological forces—both inside Israel and across the West—that have undermined the country’s ability to defend itself. Their wide-ranging conversation covers everything from 7 October and the erosion of Israeli deterrence to the rise of postcolonial ideology, the crisis of liberalism, and the battle for narrative power in a media-saturated world. I.

3 weeks ago | quillette.com | Geoffrey Kabat |Matt Johnson

During the Senate confirmation hearings earlier this year, it became clear that the man nominated by Donald Trump to become Secretary of Health and Human Services was completely unfit to run America’s leading public-health agency. Now that he has been confirmed, it is time to reckon with the likely consequences of that decision. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. insists he’s not anti-vaccine and that he just wants to ensure that vaccines are safe.

3 weeks ago | quillette.com | Lyman Stone

Men who have lots of babies with lots of different women seem to be having a moment right now. Between Elon Musk’s outspoken pronatalism and Andrew Tate’s penchant for sexual aggression, it’s easy to see how somebody might think that we may be about to enter a new social phase: the death of monogamy.

3 weeks ago | quillette.com | Matt Johnson

In his speech at the RNC accepting the vice-presidential nomination last summer, J.D. Vance said: “America is not just an idea. It is a group of people with a shared history and a common future. It is, in short, a nation.” This apparently banal observation has been a rallying cry for conservatives throughout the Trump era.