Erdogan’s Hypocrisy While routinely declaring that Israel’s behaviour toward Hamas is genocidal, Erdogan has consistently denied the real genocides carried out by Turkey. Benny Morris 22 Apr 2024 · 8 min read
American Carnage Alex Garland’s spectacular new film ‘Civil War’ is a warning of what can happen to democracies when civil society collapses. Allan Stratton 18 Apr 2024 · 6 min read
Jean-Luc Godard in Retrospect Part II: Fanaticism and Failure (1966–2022) After half a decade of critical adulation, Godard’s career slumped into doctrinaire Maoism, bitterness, incomprehensibility, and irrelevance. It never recovered. Charlotte Allen 16 Apr 2024 · 36 min read
Desire and Ambition Today, most of John Braine’s work is out of print and forgotten. But he was an underrated writer, unafraid to confront the complexities of masculine sexuality with terse precision, self-deprecation, and emotional candour. Brad Strotten 13 Apr 2024 · 10 min read
Stifling Free Speech Online: Australia’s Misinformation Bill Every censorship regime in history has claimed to be protecting the public. But no regime can have prior knowledge of what is true or good. It can only know what the approved narratives are. Toadworrier 23 Apr 2024 · 11 min read
More People, More Prosperity: The Simon Abundance Index The Simon Abundance Index 2024 finds Earth’s resources 509% more plentiful than in 1980. Marian L. Tupy 22 Apr 2024 · 5 min read
An Absurd Umbrella: Neurodiversity and the Autism Spectrum Autism has become a catchall term to explain and dismiss the problem child. But it can also be viewed as a superpower. Jason Garshfield 21 Apr 2024 · 9 min read
Investigating the Academy In a recent speech to University of Toronto scholars, a Quillette editor explained why many of his fellow journalists are reluctant to report on administrative scandals at Canadian universities. Jonathan Kay 19 Apr 2024 · 14 min read
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
From Banana Slugs to Human Beings, There Are Just Two Sexes An examination of 18 supposedly ‘trans animals’ disproves activist claims that we all live on a non-binary gender ‘spectrum.’ Emma Hilton / Jonathan Kay 17 Apr 2024 · 10 min read