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A Guest Workers’ Son in the IDF

Amit Gish’s biography ‘Cedrick’ provides a vivid depiction of the hardships and injustices faced by Israel's many guest workers.

Benny Morris 1 Sep 2025 · 12 min read

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Beautiful Visions

Van Morrison turns eighty.

David Cohen 31 Aug 2025 · 11 min read

Mahmood Mamdani on stage, in a suit, with lanyard. He is a handsome pale-skinned man in his late fifties or early sixties.

Mahmood Mamdani Wants to Dismantle America

Zohran Mamdani’s father Mahmood is a postnationalist who advocates the dissolution of all nation states, which he views as intrinsically violent and unjust.

John Aziz 2 Sep 2025 · 7 min read

A Crisis of Aid and Information

Andrew Fox 12 Aug 2025 · 15 min read

RFK Jr.’s mRNA Betrayal: How Political Ideology Trumped Nobel Prize-Winning Science

Jake Scott 8 Aug 2025 · 8 min read

A Heterodox Education

Claire Lehmann 5 Aug 2025 · 22 min read

Against Palestinian Statehood

The Quillette Editorial Board 5 Aug 2025 · 6 min read

Sexual Perversity in Ontario

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The Rise and Fall of ‘Gender-Affirming’ Therapeutic Care

Forest Romm, Kevin Waldman 24 Jul 2025 · 16 min read

Mahmood Mamdani on stage, in a suit, with lanyard. He is a handsome pale-skinned man in his late fifties or early sixties.

Mahmood Mamdani Wants to Dismantle America

Zohran Mamdani’s father Mahmood is a postnationalist who advocates the dissolution of all nation states, which he views as intrinsically violent and unjust.

John Aziz 2 Sep 2025 · 7 min read

Sad Filipino family cry next to IDF soldiers in uniform.

A Guest Workers’ Son in the IDF

Amit Gish’s biography ‘Cedrick’ provides a vivid depiction of the hardships and injustices faced by Israel's many guest workers.

Benny Morris 1 Sep 2025 · 12 min read

Van Morrison lays saxophone on stage. He wears a hat and polarised aviator sunglasses.

Beautiful Visions

Van Morrison turns eighty.

David Cohen 31 Aug 2025 · 11 min read

A Crisis of Aid and Information

Andrew Fox 12 Aug 2025 · 15 min read

Palestinians carrying food aid they received from a US aid point in Rafah walk along a street in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza Strip, on 31 July 31 2025.

RFK Jr.’s mRNA Betrayal: How Political Ideology Trumped Nobel Prize-Winning Science

Jake Scott 8 Aug 2025 · 8 min read

RFK Jr.’s mRNA Betrayal: How Political Ideology Trumped Nobel Prize-Winning Science

A Heterodox Education

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Against Palestinian Statehood

The Quillette Editorial Board 5 Aug 2025 · 6 min read

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Sexual Perversity in Ontario

Marilyn Simon 30 Jul 2025 · 12 min read

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The Rise and Fall of ‘Gender-Affirming’ Therapeutic Care

Forest Romm, Kevin Waldman 24 Jul 2025 · 16 min read

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Podcast #300: The Modular Mind

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Podcast #299: A Jewish Girl in Revolutionary Iran

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PODCAST #298: What Does It Take to Develop a ‘Scrabble-Shaped Brain’?

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Naive Protest and Calculated Terror

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Podcast #299: A Jewish Girl in Revolutionary Iran

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PODCAST #298: What Does It Take to Develop a ‘Scrabble-Shaped Brain’?

PODCAST #298: What Does It Take to Develop a ‘Scrabble-Shaped Brain’?

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Scene from a 13 October 2023 ‘Day of Resistance’ rally in Columbus, Ohio.

Against Palestinian Statehood

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