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Two films have revisited To Catch a Predator this year, and they reach opposite verdicts on Chris Hansen. A24's Primetime casts him as a reckless ratings-chaser and alters the record to get there. David Osit's documentary Predators is more careful: it questions what televised public shaming does to everyone involved, including the audience and the filmmakers.
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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." 🇫🇷🔥
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My latest episode of the @Quillette Cetera podcast is now live 👇
France Riots: @napsarkozy on Why France Keeps Burning
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Straight wife and mother. Lesbian. Non-binary. Trans man. Polyamorous. And, as of last month, two-spirit.
Each new identity Rowan Jetté Knox announced was treated by Canadian media as a profound and final truth. @preta_6 asks why nobody noticed the contradictions.
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China may have 130 million fewer people than it reports, and it's automating jobs a decade before its workforce shrinks. Aaron Sarin on why Beijing's choices preview everyone's future.
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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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The anonymous chronicler of the Islamic State’s occupation talks to Pamela Paresky about growing up under Saddam, the 1941 Farhud, and why he believes antisemitism unites every jihadist movement.
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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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How did ancient navigators find specks of land across thousands of miles of Pacific Ocean, with no maps or instruments? David Lewis spent years sailing with the last traditional masters to find out.
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Rubio’s Athens speech was all about thumos: Greek pride, courage, ambition. But the Greeks also invented tragedy, a whole civic art form about how the mighty fall.
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Nearly 2,400 arrests, almost 1,000 police injured, 3,000 businesses damaged — and the worst may not be over. This piece originally in Le Point, now in English in Quillette, traces twenty years of escalating urban violence in France and asks why the authorities can't get it under control.
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A lesbian bar in Massachusetts tried to stay afloat by letting unmasked customers in on Saturday nights, and was accused of fascism and eugenics. To @bindelj , it all felt very familiar.
From the riots of 2005 to the scenes of urban guerrilla warfare on 17 and 18 October, violence in French cities has grown increasingly intense. And the authorities are struggling to respond.
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Tucker Carlson says the West hates Putin’s Russia “because it’s Christian.” The data tell a different story: just 16% of Russians attend religious services at least monthly, compared with 39% in the supposedly godless United States.
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Belgium's equality body wants philosopher Nathan Cofnas in court over his views on race and intelligence.
Rosalind Arden, who once led the International Society for Intelligence Research, asks what the science actually says, and whether a judge should ever settle an unsettled scientific question.
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When did you last read a whole book?
Nearly half of adults in the US and UK say they didn't manage one last year. @j_amesmarriott's new book, The New Dark Ages, argues that this decline threatens far more than bookshops-- it may undermine the kind of thinking democracy depends on.
We've just published Josh Allan's review of it 👇
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Is the "boys don't read" problem a matter of supply or demand?
More than 70 percent of staff at America's Big Five publishers are women, as are more than 70 percent of editors and a majority of executives.
Adam Szetela argues this is the single biggest transformation in the history of American publishing, and that an industry recruiting almost entirely from elite universities has narrowed what reaches the shelves.
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Tiberius handed day-to-day power to his most trusted lieutenant and withdrew to Capri. Sejanus used that trust to poison the heir, gather the Praetorian Guard into a single fortress and build a parallel court in Rome. Guy de la Bédoyère's account, adapted from his new book Brief Lives of the Ancient World, is also a study in the risks of delegation without oversight, and in how the same concentration of power that raises someone can bring them down in one stroke.
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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
