Quillette

08/06/2026

The saga in 2014 established the paradigm for countless hashtag controversies that followed.
By Kevin Mahnken.

The saga in 2014 established the paradigm for countless hashtag controversies that followed.

08/06/2026

This opinion about the case isn’t popular right now.

It doesn’t give his conspiracy. It doesn’t give the left a clean racist backlash narrative. It doesn’t let the police off the hook. And it doesn’t turn the community into collective suspects.

What it does is force you to hold several uncomfortable things in mind at once - and most people aren’t willing to do that when grief and rage feel so much more satisfying.

Andrew Fox did the hard work, and we turned it into a video which you can watch here :

Henry Nowak: Bodycam Footage, Anchoring Bias, and the Politics of Certainty
https://youtu.be/330nEPU__dg

08/06/2026

The truth about the Henry Nowak case isn't popular right now.

It doesn't give Farage his conspiracy. It doesn't give the left a clean racist backlash narrative. It doesn't let the police off the hook. And it doesn't turn the Sikh community into collective suspects.

What it does is force you to hold several uncomfortable things in mind at once — and most people aren't willing to do that when grief and rage feel so much more satisfying.

Andrew Fox did the hard work, and we turned it into a video.

An 18-year-old told police he'd been stabbed. They didn't believe h...

07/06/2026

British liberals exclude reactionary cranks like Hasan Piker and Cenk Uygur because they don’t have the stomach for a fight.
By Brian Stewart.

British liberals exclude reactionary cranks like Hasan Piker and Cenk Uygur because they don’t have the stomach for a fight.

06/06/2026

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05/06/2026

This week we start with a moving essay from Ukrainian writer Sergey Maidukov.

Maidukov fled Donetsk when Russian tanks rolled in. He packed up and left with just two suitcases and a copy of Taleb's Antifragile. Twelve years later, he finds in that book the best explanation for why Ukraine is still standing—a wonderful reminder of the resilience of the human spirit.

Antifragility in Ukraine, Sergey Maidukov — Four years into the full-scale invasion, Ukraine bears little resemblance to the count
By Claire Lehmann.

Ten Years of Ideas

05/06/2026

Hava Mendelle — army veteran, nurse, and co-founder of Minority Impact — speaks with Zoe Sankey about antisemitism in Australia, the red-green alliance, October 7th, and why she left the activist left behind.
By Zoe Sankey.

Hava Mendelle — army veteran, nurse, and co-founder of Minority Impact — speaks with Zoe Sankey about antisemitism in Australia, the red-green alliance, October 7th, and why she left the activist left behind.

05/06/2026

The most consequential weakness of philosopher and journalist Kathleen Stock’s new polemic against assisted dying is its failure to engage with the empirical record.
By Rosalind Arden.

The most consequential weakness of philosopher and journalist Kathleen Stock’s new polemic against assisted dying is its failure to engage with the empirical record.

04/06/2026

Kathleen Stock discusses one of the darkest arguments made in favour of assisted dying: that ageing populations and strained public finances make it socially desirable.

https://quillette.com/2026/06/01/the-case-against-state-sanctioned-euthanasia/

04/06/2026

Police officers arrived at the scene already anchored. Before they saw a single thing, they had been told they were responding to a racist assault — perpetrated by a white man against a Sikh victim. That first piece of information shaped everything they then perceived. When Henry Nowak said he couldn't breathe, it may have sounded like the kind of claim officers had learned to distrust. This is anchoring bias: it doesn't require malice. It requires human cognition operating under pressure with bad information. What does that mean for how we train, supervise, and hold accountable the people we ask to make life-or-death decisions in seconds?⁠
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Read more: https://quillette.com/2026/06/03/the-murder-of-henry-nowak-and-the-politics-of-certainty-vickrum-digwa/
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