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Editors’ Choice 2025

Quillette’s editors choose their favourite essays of the year.

The Quillette Editorial Board 31 Dec 2025 · 10 min read

Margaret Mead, a white woman with short hair and glasses, speaks to a dark-skinned mother and child.

The Sexual Paradise That Never Was

How Margaret Mead’s romanticised account of Samoan life became the founding myth of cultural determinism—and why it endures despite having been thoroughly debunked.

Patrick Whittle 30 Dec 2025 · 19 min read

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On Ten Years

A speech marking the tenth anniversary of Quillette, delivered by founder and editor-in-chief Claire Lehmann in Sydney.

Claire Lehmann 31 Dec 2025 · 4 min read

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Claire Lehmann is a 40-year-old woman with blonde hair and pale skin. She stands at a microphone, smiling.

On Ten Years

A speech marking the tenth anniversary of Quillette, delivered by founder and editor-in-chief Claire Lehmann in Sydney.

Claire Lehmann 31 Dec 2025 · 4 min read

A female librarian with spectacles sitting among a pile of books.

Editors’ Choice 2025

Quillette’s editors choose their favourite essays of the year.

The Quillette Editorial Board 31 Dec 2025 · 10 min read

Margaret Mead, a white woman with short hair and glasses, speaks to a dark-skinned mother and child.

The Sexual Paradise That Never Was

How Margaret Mead’s romanticised account of Samoan life became the founding myth of cultural determinism—and why it endures despite having been thoroughly debunked.

Patrick Whittle 30 Dec 2025 · 19 min read

They Don’t Believe It Either

Maarten Boudry 19 Oct 2025 · 13 min read

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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 #318: Christmas in Byzantium

Podcast #318: Christmas in Byzantium

Quillette 24 Dec 2025 · 3 min read

Podcast #317: Sri Lankan by Birth, Tamil by Heritage, Canadian by Choice

Podcast #317: Sri Lankan by Birth, Tamil by Heritage, Canadian by Choice

Jonathan Kay, Roy Ratnavel 19 Dec 2025 · 3 min read

Podcast #316: The Genius of Jane Austen

Podcast #316: The Genius of Jane Austen

Quillette 17 Dec 2025 · 38 min read

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Corey Walker on Audience Capture, Identity Politics, and Anti-Israel Hysteria | Quillette Cetera Ep. 59

Zoe Booth, Corey Walker 12 Dec 2025 · 36 min read

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How Doctors Without Borders Became a Political Actor in Gaza

Gerald M. Steinberg, E. Levenson, Zoe Booth 29 Dec 2025 · 7 min read

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The Chanukah Terror Attack in Australia—and the Antisemitism Behind It

Iona Italia 24 Dec 2025 · 5 min read

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What the Bondi Attack Reveals About Australia’s Immigration Policy

Claire Lehmann 23 Dec 2025 · 5 min read

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Bondi Was Not a Surprise: How Antisemitism Was Normalised in Australia

Jack Pinczewski 18 Dec 2025 · 5 min read

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Among Savage Tribes

Peggy Sastre 28 Dec 2025 · 10 min read

Tech Wants You to Believe that AI Is Conscious

Tech Wants You to Believe that AI Is Conscious

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Sudan Between Two Middle Easts

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Can Art Convey Truth?

Jerry A. Coyne 26 Dec 2025 · 8 min read

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Quillette’s Most Read—2025

Quillette 24 Dec 2025 · 3 min read

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The Gospel According to Pasolini

Robert Huddleston 23 Dec 2025 · 8 min read

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The Strange Death of English Justice

Ralph Leonard 23 Dec 2025 · 13 min read

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Australia’s Selective Blindness

Alan Davison 23 Dec 2025 · 7 min read

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The Hatred We Must Name

Iona Italia 22 Dec 2025 · 4 min read

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Alfred Hitchcock’s Christmas Movie

Christian Kriticos 22 Dec 2025 · 8 min read

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The Infinite Reopening of History

John Aziz 20 Dec 2025 · 7 min read

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From the Goldberg’s to the Icebergs

Tim Harcourt 19 Dec 2025 · 3 min read

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