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Australia’s Selective Blindness
The refusal to discuss Islamic antisemitism in Australia endangers Jews and threatens social cohesion.
 • Alan Davison
No, You Don’t Have a Disorder, You Have Feelings
When we construe normal feeling as illness, we offer people an understanding of themselves as disordered. This encourages people to be stuck in a…
 • Lisa Marchiano
Pride and Prejudice
The self-esteem movements that once deranged America’s school curricula have since deranged the realm of identity activism.
 • Steve Salerno
The 100 Million Killed Under Communist Regimes Matter
The death toll under Communist regimes is of incredible magnitude. Yet whenever I attack Communism for being an evil ideology, I get a serious number of…
 • Razib Khan
Gaza and the Collapse of Truth-Seeking
The Gaza aid-site controversy and a crisis of journalism. By Gary Geipel
A Fragile Peace
The Israel-Iran conflict may already be over, following the destruction of Iran’s nuclear facilities. But the future is deeply uncertain.
 • Quillette and Benny Morris
Why Liberal Democracies Are Losing Meaning & The Case for Rebuilding Karl Popper's Open Society
Chair of the New Zealand Initiative Roger Partridge reads his essay on how liberalism can meet the crisis of meaning.
 • Quillette
One Man Multiple Wives: Is it Good For the Birth Rate?
Listen to Zoe Booth narrate demographer Lyman Stone's essay about polygamy's pitfalls.
 • Quillette, Zoë, and Lyman Stone
Too Many Moons: Saturn is Astronomy’s New Pluto Problem by Physicist Lawrence M. Krauss
The International Astronomical Union recently declared that Saturn now has 274 moons. But should all of them truly be called “moons”?
 • Quillette and Lawrence M. Krauss
No, Humanity Won’t All Look the Same in the Future: Geneticist Razib Khan (Narrated)
Razib Khan argues that the idea of a future where everyone is light-brown or “beige” due to global intermixing misunderstands both genetics and human…
 • Quillette and Razib Khan
What is Late-Stage Capitalism? By John Aziz (Narrated)
What do critics mean by “late-stage capitalism,” and does the term reflect economic reality or ideological wishful thinking?
 • Quillette and John Aziz
Louis Theroux's The Settlers: An Incomplete Portrayal by John Aziz (Narrated)
Aziz narrates his article critiquing Louis Theroux’s 2025 BBC documentary *The Settlers.
 • Quillette and John Aziz
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