Catching the Starship: A Breakthrough for Humanity It is now more likely than not that humans will reach Mars, which will transform life on this planet and beyond. Peter Hague 20 Oct 2024 · 8 min read
Towards a Post-Hamas Future The events of 7 October did not benefit Palestinians in any way. John Aziz 7 Oct 2024 · 8 min read
Misinformation Is Bad. Prohibiting It Is Worse A proposed Australian law aimed at blocking false content would likely be applied selectively—and thereby further erode public trust in mainstream information sources. The Quillette Editorial Board 29 Sep 2024 · 9 min read
Canada’s Faltering ‘Unmarked Graves’ Narrative Goes to Court When lawyers asked the Law Society of British Columbia to correct the false claim that ‘the bodies of 215 children’ were discovered in Kamloops, the legal regulator accused them of bigotry. Jonathan Kay 20 Sep 2024 · 11 min read
Feminism and Free Speech Victoria’s proposed hate speech legislation forces feminists to choose which is more important to them: the restriction of misogynistic speech, or the protection of their own political speech. Holly Lawford-Smith 21 Oct 2024 · 5 min read
Death of a Deluded Man Yahya Sinwar should be remembered above all as a failure whose fetish for Jewish—and Palestinian—blood turned Gaza into dust and rubble. John Aziz 19 Oct 2024 · 10 min read
Podcast #255: We Have Never Been Woke Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with scholar Musa al-Gharbi, whose acclaimed new book analyses the rise of progressive ideological orthodoxy as a means for elites to signal status and accumulate ‘cultural capital.’ Quillette 19 Oct 2024 · 11 min read
Blonde on Blonde Andrew Dominik’s much-maligned film about the life and death of a screen icon claws through the sentimental myth-making in search of terrible truths. Charlotte Allen 18 Oct 2024 · 32 min read
A Fashionable Madness: The Obsession with ‘Settler Colonialism’ The works of literary critic Adam Kirsch and of novelist and memoirist Joan Didion provide a salutary rebuttal of settler colonialist theory. Robert Huddleston 17 Oct 2024 · 14 min read
Culture of Complaint and the New Deal Murals Art in public spaces will always be scrutinised for the propriety of its iconography, and it will remain under attack as long as its guardians are willing to pander to the narcissistic impulses of the activists. Julia Friedman 16 Oct 2024 · 7 min read