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Island of Spies

The British establishment is experiencing a schism over China policy and approval of a controversial new embassy.

Aaron Sarin 5 Dec 2025 · 9 min read

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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.

Stephan Jensen 4 Dec 2025 · 6 min read

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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.

Peggy Sastre 6 Dec 2025 · 13 min read

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Stephen Jay Gould, Edward O. Wilson, Richard Lewontin. Three older men in formal and casual attire against a green DNA-themed background.

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.

Peggy Sastre 6 Dec 2025 · 13 min read

Two suited men in separate outdoor close-ups, both looking ahead against blurred urban backgrounds.

Island of Spies

The British establishment is experiencing a schism over China policy and approval of a controversial new embassy.

Aaron Sarin 5 Dec 2025 · 9 min read

Ruined blue Orthodox church with damaged domes and collapsed masonry against an overcast sky.

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.

Stephan Jensen 4 Dec 2025 · 6 min read

They Don’t Believe It Either

Maarten Boudry 19 Oct 2025 · 13 min read

Protesters hold pro-Palestinian banners and an Iranian flag, including one reading “Zionism Is Racism—Victory to the Intifada.”

An Uneasy Peace

Benny Morris 15 Oct 2025 · 15 min read

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The Problem with Alt. Media

Matt Johnson 13 Oct 2025 · 14 min read

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The Melbourne Crimewave

Andrew Bushnell 11 Oct 2025 · 10 min read

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The Genocide Libel

Andrew Fox 9 Oct 2025 · 24 min read

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The Masses and the Market

Joel Kotkin 26 Sep 2025 · 11 min read

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Podcast #315: Marriage and Divorce in America

Podcast #315: Marriage and Divorce in America

Quillette, Nicholas Wolfinger 4 Dec 2025 · 27 min read

Podcast #314: A Gay Author’s Escape from Cults, Drugs, Queer Radicalism, and ‘Scrupulosity’

Podcast #314: A Gay Author’s Escape from Cults, Drugs, Queer Radicalism, and ‘Scrupulosity’

Ben Appel 30 Nov 2025 · 72 min read

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How Foreign Funding Is Shaping Australia’s Energy Debate | Quillette Cetera Ep. 58

Zoe Booth 29 Nov 2025 · 22 min read

Podcast #313: Jesse Brown’s Rude Awakening

Podcast #313: Jesse Brown’s Rude Awakening

Quillette 23 Nov 2025 · 45 min read

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How Antisemitism Returned: From Medieval Europe to the Free Palestine Protests

Benny Morris, Zoe Booth 2 Dec 2025 · 6 min read

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The Truth About South Africa’s Farm Murders & White Exodus

David Benatar 26 Nov 2025 · 9 min read

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How “Sensitivity Readers” Made Modern Fiction Boring

Adam Szetela 26 Nov 2025 · 14 min read

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Why Britain Signed a Treaty with the Māori—but Not with Australia’s Aboriginal Peoples

Zoe Booth, Sean Welsh 25 Nov 2025 · 7 min read

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The Conned Artist

Graham Daseler 4 Dec 2025 · 10 min read

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More Vaccine Fearmongering

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A Brief History of Inbreeding

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The New Speech Wars

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Too Much Gilbert

Too Much Gilbert

Charlotte Allen 30 Nov 2025 · 22 min read

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Hidden in Plain Sight

Virginia Tapscott 28 Nov 2025 · 12 min read

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“Nothing Is to Be Feared. Everything Is to Be Understood.”

Claire Lehmann 28 Nov 2025 · 14 min read

The Unwelcome Truth about Rape

The Unwelcome Truth about Rape

Peggy Sastre 27 Nov 2025 · 14 min read

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Ronan McCrea 27 Nov 2025 · 10 min read

The BPA Panic and the Distortion of Science

The BPA Panic and the Distortion of Science

Geoffrey C. Kabat 26 Nov 2025 · 10 min read

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MAGA’s Weak Gods

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