Politics - Quillette

Health Secretary Humza Yousaf listens as First Minister Nicola Sturgeon presents her government's Programme for Government

Very Bad Government

From the beginning, the SNP leadership has skilfully papered over its failures and absurdities with soaring rhetoric of the better life to come once Scotland is “free.”

John Lloyd

3 May 2024 · 10 min read

Demonstrators gather at the gates of Columbia University in Morningside Heights, Manhattan, NY, on Saturday, 20 April 2024.

Springtime for Sinwar

Notes on the pro-Hamas Left and its antecedents.

Jeffrey Herf

2 May 2024 · 20 min read

Men of the Royal Air Force feeding local children in the Indian famine areas

Bad History at the BBC

A new radio series about the 1943 Bengal famine favours culture-war polemic over rigorous scholarship.

Hira Jungkow

2 May 2024 · 5 min read

A poor-looking woman in a field in Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Qinghai Province.

The Great Divide

As CCP corruption and waste has run rampant, the gulf between rich and poor has widened.

Aaron Sarin

27 Apr 2024 · 9 min read

A black and white portrait of Henry Wallace with a background of colourful Soviet-era stamps.

Misadventures of a Stalinist Stooge

Benn Steil’s engrossing new biography of Henry A. Wallace is a timely cautionary tale and a masterpiece of 20th-century American history.

Ronald Radosh

25 Apr 2024 · 23 min read

People gathered at the grave of Romania's late communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu.

Nostalgia for Confinement

Why are some in Russia and Eastern Europe pining for the communist system that once oppressed them?

John Lloyd

18 Apr 2024 · 7 min read

Wilber Aguilar Bravo displaying the symbol for Libertad (Freedom)

Cuba’s Imprisoned Truth

An interview with the father of Cuban political prisoner Walnier Luis Aguilar Rivera.

Justo Antonio Triana

11 Apr 2024 · 10 min read

A child holding a world globe in front of them.

Beware Cultural Drift

Thoughts on modernity’s monoculture mistake.

Robin Hanson

11 Apr 2024 · 12 min read

Frantz Fanon and university Palestine supporters

The Prophet of October 7?

Frantz Fanon’s defenders try to distance him from the of ethos of violence he advocated, even as they embrace his anti-colonialist rhetoric to promote anti-Zionism.

Leon Hadar

6 Apr 2024 · 11 min read

Image of open mouths against a graphic backdrop.

Among the countless articles and words devoted to the expression of opinion in the last 150 years, the vast majority are forgotten endorsements of a status quo, or futile critiques from the sidelines that were soon overtaken by events.

George Case

31 Mar 2024 · 8 min read

Images of Trump, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Aquinas.

Funhouse-Mirror Fusionism

Like the traditionalists and libertarians, integralists and vitalists find themselves advancing analogous causes: one stands for a moral order and cohesive community, and the other for the exceptional individual.

Cincinnatus Smith

28 Mar 2024 · 14 min read

A young Chinese woman stands in front of a display of red lanterns

Return of the Fortune Tellers

Wary of the Abrahamic faiths and increasingly contemptuous of Karl Marx’s alternative, young Chinese are drawn instead to tarot, divination, healers, and mediums.

Aaron Sarin

26 Mar 2024 · 8 min read

Keir Starmer and the red rose symbol of the UK Labour Party.

What Is the Labour Party For?

Sir Keir Starmer looks likely to become Britain’s next prime minister at a time when the democratic centre-left everywhere is facing a crisis of definition.

John Lloyd

26 Mar 2024 · 8 min read

Pious Fraud, or the Moral Licence to Lie

Building worldviews and political movements on falsehoods destroys common sense-making, impedes effective policy design, and erodes social trust and cohesion.

Brandon McMurtrie

21 Mar 2024 · 5 min read

The author, pictured on a bridge in Amsterdam, in 1993, a few weeks before she was attacked.

Toward Ruin or Recovery?

The modern feminist response to rape is failing women, and it is failing victims of rape most of all.

Larissa Phillips

20 Mar 2024 · 34 min read

Very Bad Government

Springtime for Sinwar

Bad History at the BBC

The Great Divide

Misadventures of a Stalinist Stooge

Nostalgia for Confinement

Cuba’s Imprisoned Truth

Beware Cultural Drift

The Prophet of October 7?

Ignore This Article

Funhouse-Mirror Fusionism

Return of the Fortune Tellers

What Is the Labour Party For?

Pious Fraud, or the Moral Licence to Lie

Toward Ruin or Recovery?