Women’s Sport or ‘Transformational’ Activism: It Can’t Be Both
A U.S.-based Australian Rules Football league allows trans-identified men to play on women’s teams. When one turned out to be a convicted sex criminal, no one wanted to talk about it.
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The Autism Epidemic That Wasn’t
The Trump administration’s scientific illiteracy about rates of autism is going to have catastrophic results.
Net Zero Won't Fix Climate Change. Technology Will
Treat a warming planet as an engineering problem rather than a moral failing, and it starts to look solvable.
A Death on Another's Head
We should worry about the perverse incentives created by elevating a self-killer and punishing his enemies.
AI and the Bioweapon Threat
The knowledge and infrastructure needed to engineer a pandemic pathogen, once confined to a handful of elite military and civilian research institutions, are quietly becoming more accessible.
Claire's Weekly Letter: Punished for Truth-Seeking
A weekly roundup from our Editor-in-Chief.
Drink More Ovaltine
The jokes we told in a Venezuelan prison.
The Troubled State of Sociology
Increasingly, sociologists are expected to avoid research questions and theories that involve the role of culture in shaping societal inequalities.
The Truth About the Gender Pay Gap with David Maywald | Quillette Cetera Episode 70
David Maywald on the female wage premium, the rites of passage boys no longer have, and why the science on sex differences keeps losing to ideology.
L’Affaire Shirer Revisited
The rise, fall, and rise again of one of the 20th century’s most important journalists.
The Beautiful and Banned
There is a rather large difference between the banned books promoted by celebrities and genuinely transgressive and provocative writing.
Creeping Annexation
Israeli governments have never decided what to do with the West Bank—so the settlers have begun deciding for them.
‘Economic Vandalism’: Geoff Wilson on Labor’s War on Australian Aspiration
Fund manager Geoff Wilson tells Claire Lehmann Labor’s new capital gains tax could drive Australian capital offshore and push founders overseas.
Like Odysseus. But Real
Xenophon’s 10,000 Greeks Trapped in Persia, Xenophon and 10,000 Greeks made an extraordinary escape, chronicled in Robert L. O’Connell’s new book.
No, the Media Isn’t Responsible for Jason Arday’s Suicide
A pathological liar and lifelong con artist, protected for years by self-serving academic administrators. Exposing this rot is our job.
What Is Canada For?
Could Canada’s fate foreshadow that of other dependent democracies, as old ideals of cooperation give way to China’s and America’s self-interest?
Claire's Weekly Letter: What We Take on Trust
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Why Australia Gave Up on Getting Richer
McKinsey's Chris Bradley on why Australia stopped investing—and why he believes the poorest country in the world could live as well as Switzerland does today by
Institutional Failures in the Garden of Great Intellects
Cambridge have failed to conduct deliberate checks, failed in probity, and failed in their tolerance for unsettled science.
Cambridge and the Stigmatisation of Intelligence Research
Nathan Cofnas joins a historical line of academics demonised for delivering unwelcome or upsetting news about group differences.
Together Alone
American individualism and the western, from Fred Zinnemann and John Ford to Larry McMurtry and Taylor Sheridan.