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Opinions features commentary, analysis, and perspectives on the state of free speech, censorship, and digital rights. This category offers a platform for diverse voices to debate and reflect on pressing issues shaping the future of open expression.
Every day that passes without a final conclusion to hostilities in the Persian Gulf multiplies possibilities and deepens a situation…
In this Quillette interview, historian Gadi Taub speaks with Pamela Paresky about Israel’s war aims, the threat of a nuclear…
Twenty years ago, the United Nations Human Rights Council adopted the draft text of a document known as the “Declaration…
The world cannot be safe until China changes.~Richard Nixon, 1967 In his history/memoir On China, Henry Kissinger provides a telling…
A review of Recession: The Real Reasons Economies Shrink and What to Do About It by Tyler Goodspeed, 320 pages,…
On Saturday 26 April 1986, at 1:23 a.m., a safety test at Chernobyl’s nuclear power plant spiralled out of control.…
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A review of Rasputin: The Downfall of the Romanovs by Antony Beevor; 384 pages; Weidenfeld & Nicolson (March 2026)In the…
“Artists given complete freedom die a horrible death. So, when you tell them what they can’t do, they get creative…
Podcast Managing Editor Iona Italia talks to Michael Shermer, the author of a number of works on critical thinking, epistemology,…
On the eve of last year’s Earth Day, Denis Hayes—one of the original organisers of the first such event—declared:The world…