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Claire Lehmann
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"How Biden’s current stance—which effectively works to shield Hamas rule in Rafah—squares with the major policy aim of demolishing that organisation is anyone’s guess." -- Benny Morris for @Quillette
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One of US television’s most experienced and talented writers has made a mess of Tom Wolfe’s second novel, writes Kevin Mims
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Jonathan Kay
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We have a new feature at ⁦ @Quillette ,⁩ in which we discuss the books (new & old) we’re enjoying. In this one, I praise Philippa Langley’s “The Princes in the Tower,” which asks whether Richard III really ordered the killing of Edward V & his brother
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“In today’s censorious climate, how many are not only suppressing their opinions, but also saying things they don’t mean—or would simply prefer not to say just then, in those words, under pressure?”
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“Rates of autism have skyrocketed in recent decades, from well below 1 in 1,000 children in the 1960s to 1 in 36 today. This is almost certainly partially attributable to a broadening of the diagnostic parameters.”
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Izabella Tabarovsky
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Delighted to see @Quillette republish this essay of mine. It first appeared in Areo Magazine a few years back. Thank you @IonaItalia for commissioning it in the first place & for bringing it to Quillette!
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@RALindsay
Ronald A. Lindsay
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My essay in Quillette, in which I describe the radical transformation of the role of the physician. Physicians in the US & Canada are directed to change their focus from the individual to the alleged structural causes of disease, namely, "white supremacy, racism, classism,
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"There have always been fall guys and audiences for their stunts. In a Bronze Age version of running with the bulls, young Minoans performed somersaults off the backs of charging bulls as a rite of passage. To ward off drought, Aztecs danced for the gods while dangling upside
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@IonaItalia
Iona Italia, PhD
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“The Fall Guy connects us to our childhoods—those reckless years we were lucky to survive—and invites us to imagine adulthoods with the courage to gamble security for dreams.” Allan Stratton for @Quillette .
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"Emerald Fennel’s film Saltburn... offers a more irreverent and complex indictment of class privilege that seems to have been inspired by a combination of Evelyn Waugh’s 1945 novel Brideshead Revisited and Pasolini’s 1968 film Theorem. It is not exactly apolitical, but nor does
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“Caravaggio murdered a man in a brawl and G.K. Chesterton was an antisemite. Their behaviour does not diminish the beauty and profundity of the work they produced.”
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@IonaItalia
Iona Italia, PhD
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"Lab-grown meat allows us to improve animal welfare without sacrificing the pleasures derived from meat-eating." Matthew Adelstein for @Quillette .
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Opposition to lab-grown meat that invokes fears of economic disruption is not only anti-progress, it is also anti-capitalist, writes Matthew Adelstein
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