Claire Lehmann

My speech from Wednesday night quillette.com/2026/06/19/the…

@DavidShoebridge Populist slop. Do better.

The average ASX100 CEO was paid 55 times more than the average wage earner last year. They have designed a system to steal the world’s wealth from everyone else and they pay politicians to keep it that way. Time to take back control of our economy, and politics.

@jonobri Very bad

@clairlemon Would it upset you to learn that Adelaide is the only city in the country with a single-storey zone, and that said zone is mostly located right next to the CBD

Explains why house prices in my hometown of Adelaide are now resembling that of Sydney. zoning.org.au/cities/adelaide

I remember when I had this moment. I was in my mid-20s explaining a basic concept to an elected representative and realized, "oh. i am the adult in the room."

@loobah_l Great pubs too

@clairlemon it has good wine and an undergraduate medical school

@DrewPavlou But they bring their families, including elderly parents, so it doesn't work out that way anyway.

"This is not some minor point. The claim that wealth inequality is exploding is the central premise of Gary Stevenson’s entire economic theory, &, by extension, of this documentary. Take that away, and there is nothing left" --@K_Niemietz for @Quillette quillette.com/2026/07/14/gar…

For @Quillette I wrote about Israel's three wars of choice in 1956, 1982, 2026. In all three cases, a devastating opening blow was supposed to set in a motion a chain of events which would solve a pressing security concern as well as reshape the entire regional diplomatic order.

Quite a few people said this, actually! x.com/katrinagullive…

Women have been going off to minor parties for a long time—they lost trust, they didn't feel represented. Now, with the rise of One Nation, they've been in lockstep with the men... just slightly ahead the entire time. - @parnellpalme

In just two sentences, my friend Shany Mor (@ShMMor) captures the utter cluelessness of so much supposedly "learned" discourse about Israel's strategic predicament in both Gaza and the West Bank: "Israel can neither continue to occupy the West Bank nor consider withdrawing from it—as it must do if it is to remain a Jewish state and a democratic one—without radically disincentivising any further operations like the 7 October massacre. An enormous amount of learned discourse over the last three years has pretended not to understand the importance of this war aim, while simultaneously demanding measures that would make it unachievable." The real "problem"—in fact it is an extraordinary blessing—is that most liberal democracies in the West (with the notable exception of Ukraine) have not faced an existential military threat for more than eight decades. As a result, many have completely lost the ability to think about war in strategic terms: incentives, deterrence, trade-offs, military objectives. It's not just antisemitism or hostility toward Israel. It's also just historical amnesia and the luxury of having zero skin in the game. Shany's essay draws fascinating parallels with the 1956 Suez Crisis, exploring the double-edged nature of superpower involvement. Yet another reminder of why a @Quillette subscription is essential for understanding the world today. quillette.com/2026/07/13/res…

Companies rely on investors risking their cash to grow. Growth companies build our economy. This is not good news for Australia's economic growth.

New to Quillette Narrated 🎧 The Menace of a Respectable Hatred, written by Yuki Zeman, narrated by @William_Laing. quillette.com/2026/07/06/the…

New from me at @Quillette: The rise and fall of Graham Platner. And: What about claims that the charges against Platner are a #MeToo witch-hunt? quillette.com/2026/07/13/ris…

This is the clearest example yet of the inmates having taken over the asylum. This person is the PRESIDENT of the American Anthropological Association, the leader of her field, but she doesn't understand the most fundamental definition of sex in biology (based on gamete types, of which there are exactly two). These sex differences have literally existed for a billion years, are binary across the entire living world, and have absolutely nothing to do with rare chromosomal anomalies in humans. h/t @RichardHanania #selection-3025.444-3025.498" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">archive.is/FKjSk#selectio…

@TheAnnaGat Same! On my birthday.

I am watching the Odyssey in 3 days. NO SPOILERS

A compelling deep dive into the rise and fall of Graham Platner--including the veracity of sexual assault allegations--from #MeToo skeptic @CathyYoung63 quillette.com/2026/07/13/ris…

Not saying that the country’s housing crisis is symbolised by a journalist-cum-politician who has bought her *fourth house* with loans from her parents, but it certainly doesn’t help!

The rise and fall of wokeness: DEI commitments in corporate securities disclosures filed with the SEC. To me this seems a trailing indicator; most other measures of wokeness take off well before 2019 and peak in 2020 or 2021. But the shape! That's what a moral fashion looks like.