The Erdoğanization of Hungary
Earlier this week, ostensibly in light of the COVID-19 crisis, the Hungarian parliament granted the country’s prime minister, Viktor...
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‘10% Less Democracy’—A Review
10% Less Democracy: Why You Should Trust Elites a Little More and the Masses a Little Less by Garrett Jones, Stanford University Press...
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PODCAST 84: Talat Chughtai, Director of the Trauma Intensive Care Unit at Hamad General Hospital, on Treating COVID-19
Talat Chughtai, Director of the Trauma Intensive Care Unit at Hamad General Hospital, talks to Jonathan Kay about COVID-19, the strain...
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Romance, Race, and Retribution
I “This is a crisis of epic proportions,” wrote an alarmed Romance Writers of America (RWA) board member on Christmas Eve as the scenery...
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COVID-19 Science Update for March 31st: Wear a Mask, Georgia’s SSE, Kinsa’s Fever Map
This article constitutes the March 31st, 2020 entry in the daily Quillette series COVID-19 UPDATES. Please report needed corrections or...
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Warehouse Work in an Age of Contagion
As regular readers of Quillette will know, I work at a warehouse in West Sacramento, California, where every workday I toil in close...
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COVID-19 Science Update for March 30th: The Planet’s Deadly Viral Baseline
This article constitutes the March 30th, 2020 entry in the daily Quillette series COVID-19 UPDATES. Please report needed corrections or...
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Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family—A Review
A review of Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family by Sophie Lewis, Verso, 224 pages (May 2019) Why is it that when we grab for...
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COVID-19 Science Update for March 29th: Keep Your Voice Down
This article constitutes the March 29th, 2020 entry in the daily Quillette series COVID-19 UPDATES. Please report needed corrections or...
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Denmark’s Weapons Against COVID-19: Early Action, High Trust—and a No-Nonsense Queen
It’s early spring in Denmark, a welcome relief after months of murky, rainy darkness. Even Copenhagen’s less-affluent districts are...
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Social Distancing During the Black Death
One of the comforts of studying history is that, no matter how bad things get, you can always find a moment in the past when things were...
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The Case for Economic Hibernation during the COVID-19 Lockdowns
The extreme social distancing measures required to arrest the spread of COVID-19, especially the lockdown and isolation, are presenting...
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Symptoms of Loneliness
I’m a corona believer. I began to panic about two weeks before everything shut down. By panic, I mean I stocked up on food and necessities...
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COVID-19 Science Update for March 28th: Bergamo’s Decimation, More SSEs, and the Case for Masks
This article constitutes the March 28th, 2020 entry in the daily Quillette series COVID-19 UPDATES. Please report needed corrections or...
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COVID-19 Science Update for March 27th: Super-Spreaders and the Need for New Prediction Models
This article constitutes the March 27th, 2020 entry in the daily Quillette series COVID-19 UPDATES. Please report needed corrections or...
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PODCAST 83: Professor Wilfred Reilly on his new book Taboo: 10 Facts You Can’t Talk About
Kentucky State political science professor Wildred Reilly talks to Toby Young about his new book Taboo: 10 Facts You Can’t Talk About....
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Social Distancing and Stay-Home Orders Are Likely To Save Millions
A new study by influential researchers at Imperial College, London finds that COVID-19 is more infectious and deadly than scientists had...
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COVID-19 Science Update for March 26th: Five Trends Shaping Medium-Term Policy
This article constitutes the March 26th, 2020 entry in the daily Quillette series COVID-19 UPDATES. Please report needed corrections to...
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Will COVID-19 Mark the End of European Liberalism?
Understandably, given its potential for large scale loss of life and severe economic disruption, coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic has so...
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COVID-19 Statistical and Science Update for March 25th
The latest global data for COVID-19—updated with reports received on March 25th, 2020—have been published at Our World in Data. Here are...
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