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"In France, it seems that our history has shown that we have to burn everything down in order to build new institutions." 🇫🇷🔥
@napsarkozy on the @Quillette Cetera podast
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My latest episode of the @Quillette Cetera podcast is now live 👇
France Riots: @napsarkozy on Why France Keeps Burning
youtu.be/8zKrh2HuU64
Also available wherever you get your podcasts.
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"The PRC’s rise was one of the fastest in the historical record. Its fall could be similarly rapid. The combination of vast numbers and accelerated pace means the Chinese experience can show us our own future writ large" - @aaron_sarin for @Quillette
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After 17 years of Netanyahu, Israel's 27 October election could reset the country's course. Historian Benny Morris on why ex-IDF chief Gadi Eisenkot leads the polls — and why forming a government may still be the hard part.
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"If the claim that genetics contributes to average differences in test scores is given to the courts to judge, we return ourselves to the burning of Giordano Bruno in 1600. Bruno concluded that the universe was infinite and had no centre; he agreed with Copernicus that the earth moved around the sun; and he was sceptical about the divinity of Christ. It takes a huge imaginative leap now to cast ourselves into a world in which theological or cosmological ideas would convulse societies, shake and shatter people’s core beliefs. But science has been seismic in the past: consider cosmology, evolutionary theory, and plate tectonics. We have come through it all. But Bruno didn’t; he was set on fire for his heretical views, and accused by his contemporaries of being abrasive, quarrelsome, and offensive. This is not to establish Cofnas as a modern-day science martyr. The parallel is that among a vocal crowd, the irrelevance of genetics to group differences is such a passionately held conviction that it causes people to feel justified in hurling accusations and glassware. We must all eventually concede to empirical reality; while we do not yet know where the truth lies, we should not silence those whose views are other than ours."
- @Rosalind_Arden_ in @Quillette
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Prison or Peer Review?
It is a disgrace that @nathancofnas may face jail in Belgium. @Rosalind_Arden_'s latest for @Quillette
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Loved this chat with @clairlemon
Get amongst it, folks ⬇️
Many people, including Christians, are unaware of the long, painful history of antisemitism within the church.
@GemmaTognini @clairlemon
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Friends and frenemies, link below to my conversation with @clairlemon
Enjoy 🙌💫⬇️
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ICYMI - My piece for @Quillette tells you everything you need to know about Albo's "digital duty of care," which would give his government unprecedented control over the internet in Australia.
The idea is unsalvageable and the bill should be withdrawn.
Some highlights... 🧵
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This in @Quillette is excellent on France in 2026
"French schools are no more “underfunded” than Dutch, German, Austrian or British ones, and spending per pupil has actually increased slightly in real terms over the past ten years." ~ @K_Niemietz
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Why Emmanuel Macron should not be letting a good riot go to waste
@K_Niemietz's latest for @Quillette
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I don't usually do long monologues for the @Quillette podcast. But when I did my intro for this weel's interview with @preta_6 about the Steve Galloway trial, I ended up talking for 10 minutes. Turns out I had a lot to say
Steven Galloway went from CanLit royalty to pariah on allegations a retired judge later found unsubstantiated. Now his accusers are in court.
@jonkay on one of the founding epics of Canadian cancel culture.
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This in @Quillette by @clairlemon is outstanding on McKinsey's very public pre-emptive capitulation to the worst online social media mobs & the firm's inability to support frank and fearless commentary by its principals. Very sad for so august a firm.
quillette.com/2026/10/15/ana…
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From Wall Street to a crack addiction, to fatherhood, studying under Robert Trivers and getting clean. I really enjoyed this conversation with anthropologist, @Quillette contributor and all-round good-dude Robert Lynch
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A senior McKinsey partner was stripped of his leadership role after questioning the “glass cliff”--a concept supported by scant empirical evidence.
I investigated the LinkedIn spat that led to his downfall and discovered two authors who turned the controversy into a publicity campaign for their new book.
My investigation for @Quillette. Unpaywalled:
quillette.com/2026/10/15/ana…
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The Albanese government's Digital Duty of Care laws would give regulators sweeping powers over online content, threatening free speech in Australia & setting a dangerous precedent for internet regulation worldwide.
@TheIPA 's Andrew Bushnell for @Quillette featuring @shellenberger down under
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🧵 On July 24, five former World Junior Hockey players were acquitted by Ontario Superior Court Judge Maria Carroccia after an eight-week sexual-assault trial—a trial that became a media circus in Canada.
Marilyn Simon has written a refreshing and honest account of this controversial case for Quillette.
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Josh Frydenberg kindly talked to @Quillette about his memoir this week. We covered Bondi, the vexatious campaign against his citizenship, the punishment of ambition in Australia, ending JobKeeper & the sadistic character of Dan Andrews' lockdowns during Covid.
youtube.com/watch?v=SNIKl0hV…
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In @Quillette, Steven Tucker compares Canada’s 2021 “unmarked-graves” social panic to historic anti-Catholic conspiracism: in popular 19th-c. “convent exposés,” women (e.g. Montreal’s Maria Monk) hallucinated murderous nuns (with “unmarked graves” aplenty)
quillette.com/2026/10/14/ant…
