# claires weekly letter — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover claires weekly letter. Page: Feed: --- ## [‘The Battle of Algiers’ at Sixty](https://quillette.substack.com/p/the-battle-of-algiers-at-sixty) _2026-08-30 · Quillette’s Substack_ Watching Gillo Pontecorvo’s film six decades after its release permits a nuanced understanding of the events that it portrays, which was unavailable when it first came out. By Shalom Lappin ## [Red Reign](https://quillette.substack.com/p/red-reign) _2026-08-28 · Noel Yaxley · Quillette’s Substack_ A thrash-metal classic turns forty. ## [Stories You Don’t Want to Be Told](https://quillette.substack.com/p/stories-you-dont-want-to-be-told) _2026-08-28 · Quillette’s Substack_ A new exhibition curated by Lars von Trier provides a fascinating look at who and what has influenced one of the world’s most prodigiously gifted and provocative filmmakers. By Jaspreet Singh Boparai. ## [Women’s Sport or ‘Transformational’ Activism: It Can’t Be Both](https://quillette.substack.com/p/womens-sport-or-transformational) _2026-08-28 · Jonathan Kay · Quillette’s Substack_ 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. ## [The Autism Epidemic That Wasn’t](https://quillette.substack.com/p/the-autism-epidemic-that-wasnt) _2026-08-28 · Geoffrey Kabat · Quillette’s Substack_ 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](https://quillette.substack.com/p/net-zero-wont-fix-climate-change) _2026-08-27 · John Aziz · Quillette’s Substack_ 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](https://quillette.substack.com/p/a-death-on-anothers-head) _2026-08-26 · Jason Manning · Quillette’s Substack_ We should worry about the perverse incentives created by elevating a self-killer and punishing his enemies. ## [AI and the Bioweapon Threat](https://quillette.substack.com/p/ai-and-the-bioweapon-threat) _2026-08-24 · Henry I. Miller · Quillette’s Substack_ 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](https://quillette.substack.com/p/claires-weekly-letter-punished-for) _2026-08-22 · Claire Lehmann · Quillette’s Substack_ A weekly roundup from our Editor-in-Chief. ## [Drink More Ovaltine](https://quillette.substack.com/p/drink-more-ovaltine) _2026-08-22 · Jow · Quillette’s Substack_ The jokes we told in a Venezuelan prison. ## [Trade Smarter With IBKR (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/V6a1HsFzbi5m) _2026-08-22 · **Sponsored**_ Join Interactive Brokers through a referral and access low-cost global trading. ## [The Troubled State of Sociology](https://quillette.substack.com/p/the-troubled-state-of-sociology) _2026-08-21 · Ashley Rubin · Quillette’s Substack_ 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](https://quillette.substack.com/p/the-truth-about-the-gender-pay-gap) _2026-08-21 · Zoë · Quillette’s Substack_ 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](https://quillette.substack.com/p/laffaire-shirer-revisited) _2026-08-21 · Thomas Doherty · Quillette’s Substack_ The rise, fall, and rise again of one of the 20th century’s most important journalists. ## [The Beautiful and Banned](https://quillette.substack.com/p/the-beautiful-and-banned) _2026-08-20 · Josh Allan · Quillette’s Substack_ There is a rather large difference between the banned books promoted by celebrities and genuinely transgressive and provocative writing. ## [Creeping Annexation](https://quillette.substack.com/p/creeping-annexation) _2026-08-19 · Benny Morris · Quillette’s Substack_ 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](https://quillette.substack.com/p/economic-vandalism-geoff-wilson-on) _2026-08-19 · Claire Lehmann · Quillette’s Substack_ 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](https://quillette.substack.com/p/like-odysseus-but-real) _2026-08-18 · Jonathan Kay · Quillette’s Substack_ 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](https://quillette.substack.com/p/no-the-media-isnt-responsible-for) _2026-08-18 · Jonathan Kay · Quillette’s Substack_ 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?](https://quillette.substack.com/p/what-is-canada-for) _2026-08-17 · George Case · Quillette’s Substack_ 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](https://quillette.substack.com/p/claires-weekly-letter-what-we-take) _2026-08-16 · Claire Lehmann · Quillette’s Substack_ A weekly roundup from our Editor-in-Chief. ## [From any door to your door (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/F0DZCnW9lT5K) _2026-08-16 · **Sponsored**_ Book rides, errands, deliveries, groceries and home help in one app ## [Why Australia Gave Up on Getting Richer](https://quillette.substack.com/p/why-australia-gave-up-on-getting) _2026-08-15 · Claire Lehmann · Quillette’s Substack_ 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](https://quillette.substack.com/p/institutional-failures-in-the-garden) _2026-08-14 · Rosalind Arden · Quillette’s Substack_ 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](https://quillette.substack.com/p/cambridge-and-the-stigmatisation) _2026-08-14 · Richard J. Haier · Quillette’s Substack_ Nathan Cofnas joins a historical line of academics demonised for delivering unwelcome or upsetting news about group differences. ## [Together Alone](https://quillette.substack.com/p/together-alone) _2026-08-13 · Craig Clifford · Quillette’s Substack_ American individualism and the western, from Fred Zinnemann and John Ford to Larry McMurtry and Taylor Sheridan.