Nine scholars from NYU, Harvard, Princeton, and Northwestern wrote a report to university chancellors warning that humanities research is being subordinated to political orthodoxy, with dissent punished rather than debated.
Read the report here:
- 🇨🇳 China just launched a nuclear-capable missile into the South Pacific Nuclear-Free Zone, days after 🇦🇺 Australia and 🇫🇯 Fiji signed a new defence pact. Beijing called it routine. @aaron_sarin argues it's the opposite: a warning shot against the united front Beijing fears most.
- Gary Stevenson says Britain's wealth inequality is spiralling out of control. The data says otherwise—and Channel 4 never thought to check, writes @K_Niemietz.
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For @Quillette I wrote about Israel's three wars of choice in 1956, 1982, 2026. In all three cases, a devastating opening blow was supposed to set in a motion a chain of events which would solve a pressing security concern as well as reshape the entire regional diplomatic order. - Quillette reposted
"This is not some minor point. The claim that wealth inequality is exploding is the central premise of Gary Stevenson’s entire economic theory, &, by extension, of this documentary. Take that away, and there is nothing left" --@K_Niemietz for @Quillette quillette.com/2026/07/14/gar… - Women have been going off to minor parties for a long time—they lost trust, they didn't feel represented. Now, with the rise of One Nation, they've been in lockstep with the men... just slightly ahead the entire time. - @parnellpalme
- New to Quillette Narrated 🎧 The Menace of a Respectable Hatred, written by Yuki Zeman, narrated by @William_Laing.
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New from me at @Quillette: The rise and fall of Graham Platner. And: What about claims that the charges against Platner are a #MeToo witch-hunt? - Quillette reposted
In just two sentences, my friend Shany Mor (@ShMMor) captures the utter cluelessness of so much supposedly "learned" discourse about Israel's strategic predicament in both Gaza and the West Bank: "Israel can neither continue to occupy the West Bank nor consider withdrawing from - Quillette repostedThree times, Israel has launched a carefully planned war to remake the Middle East: Suez 1956, Lebanon 1982, Iran 2026. But none of them resulted in regime change. @ShMMor in @Quillette on what happens when grand strategy collides with reality.
- Israel has fought plenty of wars it didn't choose. But only three times has it started one as part of a sweeping plan to redraw the entire region. None of them went the way the planners expected, writes @ShMMor 🧵Replying to @QuilletteIn 2026, Israel appears to have borrowed straight from the 1982 playbook: instead of Lebanese Maronites, this time it was Iranian Kurds — armed and given Israeli air support — expected to march on Tehran and topple the regime. It didn't happen. The US vetoed the plan. Most ofSo does 2026 end up looking more like 1956 — a "failure" that quietly banks strategic gains? Or more like 1982 — a battlefield win that becomes a long-term strategic loss? Shany Mor lays out the case. 👇
- .@clairlemon sits down with @parnellpalme to unpack her landmark report, Generation Trapped, on the collapsing life satisfaction of Australians aged 18–34. Parnell identifies six distinct “tribes” among young Australians—from disillusioned Progressive Identitarians to optimistic
