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The Limits of Radical Protest Aug 26, 2025

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Those fighting for social change today would do well to heed Bayard Rustin’s advice about how to build sustainable and effective political movements.

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Ancient DNA and the Return of a Disgraced Theory Aug 22, 2025

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This is a story of some of the greatest findings in modern research, and of the dismal narrow-mindedness and motivated reasoning displayed by scholars who ought to know better.

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The Sensitivity Era Aug 21, 2025

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Amid literary subcultures, competition has always been fierce and unrelenting and has become even more so in our age of elite overproduction. On social media, these embittered rivalries play out in public amid a chorus of backbiting worthy of Chekhov.

Robert Huddleston

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The Cancellation of Bertrand Russell Aug 21, 2025

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Eight decades later, the issues raised by the Russell case—the rights to free speech and academic freedom—have still not been settled.

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The Problem Is Islam—Not Islamism Aug 20, 2025

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The problem here is not a subset of Islamic thought, but the fundamentals of Islam itself. By Obaid Omer

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Rethinking “Harm Reduction” Aug 19, 2025

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Once seen as a model of progressive drug policy, San Francisco now stands as a morbid example of how that approach has gone astray.

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McMaster’s Imaginary Sex Ring Aug 06, 2025

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In 2020, a Canadian university tore up its psychology department in search of a non-existent network of sexual predators. Documents obtained by Quillette reveal how administrators allowed it to happen.

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Against Palestinian Statehood Aug 05, 2025

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Nurturing an alternative power structure in this kind of politically stunted society will be the work of generations. It can’t be summoned into existence by Western leaders seeking to appease domestic constituencies.

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Milan Kundera: The Nobel Prize for Literature Winner We Never Had Aug 04, 2025

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Few writers in our time were more committed to the novel or had more idealism about the heights the form could scale.

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His Satanic Majesty Retires Jul 29, 2025

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A tribute to the man who helped to revolutionise modern rock music and reality TV.

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