Iona Italia, PhD
@ionaitalia.bsky.social
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Managing Ed, @quillette.bsky.social
✍🏼 occasionally at Substack, The Second Swim
❤️ Chess, tango, gymnosophism, 🐕 Pro 🇮🇱 🇺🇦 🇹🇼
Duplicate of X account. Here once a week.
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Iona Italia, PhD
@ionaitalia.bsky.social
· Dec 31
My main wish for 2025 is to meet a man of around my age who is kind, intelligent, physically affectionate and single and build a relationship with him. I send this wish out into the ether just in case that man might be among my mutuals or their friends.
Generative AI, disinformation, and the dangerous temptation of benevolent censorship.
The New Information Wars
Generative AI, disinformation, and the dangerous temptation of benevolent censorship.
quillette.com
December 9, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Generative AI, disinformation, and the dangerous temptation of benevolent censorship.
Love means never having to say you're sorry.
All the Nuzzi That’s Fit to Print
Love means never having to say you're sorry.
quillette.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Love means never having to say you're sorry.
Why are households struggling to buy homes in advanced economies, and what does the erosion of ownership mean for inequality, family formation, and the resilience of liberal democracy?
Why Housing Is Becoming Neo-Feudal: The Collapse of Home Ownership
Why are households struggling to buy homes in advanced economies, and what does the erosion of ownership mean for inequality, family formation, and the resilience of liberal democracy?
quillette.com
December 7, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Why are households struggling to buy homes in advanced economies, and what does the erosion of ownership mean for inequality, family formation, and the resilience of liberal democracy?
Obama veterans never understood the Middle East, and they never will.
Ignorance and Indignation
Obama veterans never understood the Middle East, and they never will.
quillette.com
December 7, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Obama veterans never understood the Middle East, and they never will.
Wilson wanted to apply Darwin to everything from ants to humans. In response, the media embarked on a crusade to discredit him.
Sociobiology on Trial
Wilson wanted to apply Darwin to everything from ants to humans. In response, the media embarked on a crusade to discredit him.
quillette.com
December 6, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Wilson wanted to apply Darwin to everything from ants to humans. In response, the media embarked on a crusade to discredit him.
The British establishment is experiencing a schism over China policy and approval of a controversial new embassy.
Island of Spies
The British establishment is experiencing a schism over China policy and approval of a controversial new embassy.
quillette.com
December 5, 2025 at 9:42 PM
The British establishment is experiencing a schism over China policy and approval of a controversial new embassy.
David Mamet’s new polemic is filled with muddled prose and muddled thought.
The Conned Artist
David Mamet’s new polemic is filled with muddled prose and muddled thought.
quillette.com
December 4, 2025 at 11:43 PM
David Mamet’s new polemic is filled with muddled prose and muddled thought.
Managing Editor Iona Italia talks to sociologist Nicholas Wolfinger about trends in marriage, divorce, and maternity in the US from the 1950s to the present day.
Podcast #314: Marriage and Divorce in America
Managing Editor Iona Italia talks to sociologist Nicholas Wolfinger about trends in marriage, divorce, and maternity in the US from the 1950s to the present day.
quillette.com
December 4, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Managing Editor Iona Italia talks to sociologist Nicholas Wolfinger about trends in marriage, divorce, and maternity in the US from the 1950s to the present day.
The latest Russian “peace proposal” is a set of demands designed to enable a complete Russian takeover of Ukraine, which would otherwise be impossible to achieve.
Russian Lies Won’t Bring Peace
The latest Russian “peace proposal” is a set of demands designed to enable a complete Russian takeover of Ukraine, which would otherwise be impossible to achieve.
quillette.com
December 4, 2025 at 12:25 AM
The latest Russian “peace proposal” is a set of demands designed to enable a complete Russian takeover of Ukraine, which would otherwise be impossible to achieve.
With unproven claims that Covid-19 vaccines caused the deaths of children, Trump's FDA continues to undermine public trust in vaccines, with disturbing implications for the future health of Americans.
More Vaccine Fearmongering
With unproven claims that Covid-19 vaccines caused the deaths of children, Trump's FDA continues to undermine public trust in vaccines, with disturbing implications for the future health of Americans.
quillette.com
December 3, 2025 at 3:33 AM
With unproven claims that Covid-19 vaccines caused the deaths of children, Trump's FDA continues to undermine public trust in vaccines, with disturbing implications for the future health of Americans.
Why is antisemitism resurging? Why has support for Hamas taken hold on Western campuses? And how do Qatar, media narratives, and fading Holocaust memory feed today’s crisis?
How Antisemitism Returned: From Medieval Europe to the Free Palestine Protests
Why is antisemitism resurging? Why has support for Hamas taken hold on Western campuses? And how do Qatar, media narratives, and fading Holocaust memory feed today’s crisis?
quillette.com
December 2, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Why is antisemitism resurging? Why has support for Hamas taken hold on Western campuses? And how do Qatar, media narratives, and fading Holocaust memory feed today’s crisis?
A look at the process, history, and ethics of a potentially revolutionary new technology.
Embryo Selection: A Guide for the Curious
A look at the process, history, and ethics of a potentially revolutionary new technology.
quillette.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:07 AM
A look at the process, history, and ethics of a potentially revolutionary new technology.
At this year’s Global Free Speech Summit, there was a widespread sense that the US is at a perilous juncture.
The New Speech Wars
At this year’s Global Free Speech Summit, there was a widespread sense that the US is at a perilous juncture.
quillette.com
December 1, 2025 at 12:25 AM
At this year’s Global Free Speech Summit, there was a widespread sense that the US is at a perilous juncture.
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with writer Ben Appel about his new memoir, ‘Cis White Gay: The Making of a Gender Heretic.’
Podcast #314: A Gay Author’s Escape from Cults, Drugs, Queer Radicalism, and ‘Scrupulosity’
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with writer Ben Appel about his new memoir, ‘Cis White Gay: The Making of a Gender Heretic.’
quillette.com
November 30, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with writer Ben Appel about his new memoir, ‘Cis White Gay: The Making of a Gender Heretic.’
The author of ‘Eat Pray Love’ has returned with a new memoir, which features all the usual problems with her writing writ large.
Too Much Gilbert
The author of ‘Eat Pray Love’ has returned with a new memoir, which features all the usual problems with her writing writ large.
quillette.com
November 30, 2025 at 1:52 AM
The author of ‘Eat Pray Love’ has returned with a new memoir, which features all the usual problems with her writing writ large.
From offshore funding networks to the economic costs of unreliable renewables, this episode explores how Australia’s energy policy has been shaped by overseas interests—and what’s at stake if the country doesn’t change course.
How Foreign Funding Is Shaping Australia’s Energy Debate | Quillette Cetera Ep. 58
From offshore funding networks to the economic costs of unreliable renewables, this episode explores how Australia’s energy policy has been shaped by overseas interests—and what’s at stake if the country doesn’t change course.
quillette.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:04 AM
From offshore funding networks to the economic costs of unreliable renewables, this episode explores how Australia’s energy policy has been shaped by overseas interests—and what’s at stake if the country doesn’t change course.
How sex abuse has gone undetected inside Australia’s childcare sector.
Hidden in Plain Sight
How sex abuse has gone undetected inside Australia’s childcare sector.
quillette.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:42 AM
How sex abuse has gone undetected inside Australia’s childcare sector.
An interview with Peggy Sastre
“Nothing Is to Be Feared. Everything Is to Be Understood.”
An interview with Peggy Sastre
quillette.com
November 28, 2025 at 12:53 AM
An interview with Peggy Sastre
For their research showing that rape is generally motivated by sexual desire, Randy Thornhill and Craig Palmer were subjected to death threats and hounded in their personal and professional lives. And yet, they were right.
The Unwelcome Truth about Rape
For their research showing that rape is generally motivated by sexual desire, Randy Thornhill and Craig Palmer were subjected to death threats and hounded in their personal and professional lives. And yet, they were right.
quillette.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:12 AM
For their research showing that rape is generally motivated by sexual desire, Randy Thornhill and Craig Palmer were subjected to death threats and hounded in their personal and professional lives. And yet, they were right.
The hyper-sexualized nature of many gay subcultures threatens to undo the important human-rights progress we’ve made over the course of my lifetime.
Has the Gay-Rights Revolution Gone Too Far for Our Own Good?
The hyper-sexualized nature of many gay subcultures threatens to undo the important human-rights progress we’ve made over the course of my lifetime.
quillette.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:30 AM
The hyper-sexualized nature of many gay subcultures threatens to undo the important human-rights progress we’ve made over the course of my lifetime.
The hyper-sexualized nature of many gay subcultures threatens to undo the important human-rights progress we’ve made over the course of my lifetime.
Has the Gay-Rights Revolution Gone Too Far for Our Own Good?
The hyper-sexualized nature of many gay subcultures threatens to undo the important human-rights progress we’ve made over the course of my lifetime.
quillette.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:25 AM
The hyper-sexualized nature of many gay subcultures threatens to undo the important human-rights progress we’ve made over the course of my lifetime.
Why are people fleeing the country? Is the threat of genocide being exaggerated—or ignored?
The Truth About South Africa’s Farm Murders & White Exodus
Why are people fleeing the country? Is the threat of genocide being exaggerated—or ignored?
quillette.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Why are people fleeing the country? Is the threat of genocide being exaggerated—or ignored?
A critical look at how well-intentioned editorial “sensitivity” can narrow creative risk-taking and homogenise contemporary fiction.
How “Sensitivity Readers” Made Modern Fiction Boring
A critical look at how well-intentioned editorial “sensitivity” can narrow creative risk-taking and homogenise contemporary fiction.
quillette.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:16 AM
A critical look at how well-intentioned editorial “sensitivity” can narrow creative risk-taking and homogenise contemporary fiction.
Rusty Reno and the American postliberal revolt against the postwar consensus.
MAGA’s Weak Gods
Rusty Reno and the American postliberal revolt against the postwar consensus.
quillette.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Rusty Reno and the American postliberal revolt against the postwar consensus.
Why did Britain negotiate a treaty with Māori chiefs in New Zealand but claim Australia as terra nullius—“land belonging to no one”?
Why Britain Signed a Treaty with the Māori—but Not with Australia’s Aboriginal Peoples
Why did Britain negotiate a treaty with Māori chiefs in New Zealand but claim Australia as terra nullius—“land belonging to no one”?
quillette.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Why did Britain negotiate a treaty with Māori chiefs in New Zealand but claim Australia as terra nullius—“land belonging to no one”?