Waltzing Down the Road to Hell

The unintended consequences of the Sixties’ antiwar protests have become the farce of their 21st-century iteration.

Adam Garfinkle

27 May 2024 · 15 min read

A female demonstrator offers a flower to military police on guard at the Pentagon during an anti-Vietnam demonstration. Arlington, Virginia, USA. Wikimedia.

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Quillette Editors’ Choice of 2024

Jamie, Jon, Iona, and Claire share their favourite essays from this year.

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21 Dec 2024 · 9 min read

Podcast #264: A Theory of Everyone

Iona Italia talks to cultural evolutionary theorist Michael Muthukrishna, author of ‘A Theory of Everyone,’ about the human dual inheritance—part inherited, part taught—and about how energy availability underpins everything.

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21 Dec 2024 · 39 min read

From Skies to Screens

Our experience of the world is increasingly mediated by digital technology. This is stripping us of our sense that the physical landscape is infused with meaning.