1+ hour, 46+ min ago  (668+ words) Quillette In the history of the sciences, in history tout court, few books have dropped with greater thunder or left a greater wake than Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species. Although that famous book did not pluck the notion…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (1288+ words) Author Quinn Solobodian has won acclaim for his attempt to link the famed Austrian economist to right-wing extremists. But his arguments collapse under scrutiny. This reception is misinformed. While Slobodian is insightful regarding some aspects of the far right, his…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago  (577+ words) Start a paid subscription to get exclusive access to podcasts, articles, and events. Neuroscience's challenge to free will misses the point: consciousness and choice emerge from complex systems, not individual neurons. What these studies imply is that we are not…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago  (220+ words) Start a paid subscription to get exclusive access to podcasts, articles, and events. Zohran Mamdani wants to institute "collectivist" governance, but NYC already has a collectivist problem'a coordinated veto system that blocks development and progress. Of course, as I noted…...

1+ year, 5+ day ago  (852+ words) When Westerners hate the West. It was as though he had been struck by a bolt of lightning, Jean-Jacques Rousseau would later recall in his autobiographical Confessions. The aspiring young philosophe from Geneva had been casually leafing through a copy…...