Quillette

The Real Cost of Cheap Labour

Michael Lind's 'Hell to Pay' presents a dire cautionary message to the political establishment.

Sohale Mortazavi

4 Jun 2023 · 9 min read

Art & Culture

The Sardonic Inferno

At its best, Amis’s fiction broke open the locked door behind which our culture tries to keep its skeletons hidden.

Matt Hanson

2 Jun 2023 · 6 min read

The Dualism of Duluoz

An eagerly awaited new edition of Gerald Nicosia’s splendid Kerouac biography provides the definitive portrait of a great artist and a profoundly troubled man.

David S. Wills

1 Jun 2023 · 15 min read

The Hammett and Chandler of Gay Detective Fiction

How the books of George Baxt and Joseph Hansen changed the genre.

Kevin Mims

30 May 2023 · 16 min read

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America’s Failing Child-Protection System

If Governor DeSantis really wants to protect children, he should forget about the death penalty and institute a “one-strike-and-you’re-out” policy instead.

Naomi Schaefer Riley

2 Jun 2023 · 6 min read

Campus Speech and Compromised Safety

As universities try desperately to serve two masters (knowledge production; diversity and inclusion), they will increasingly end up sanctioning speech that should be protected.

Holly Lawford-Smith

31 May 2023 · 9 min read

A Declaration of Decadence

Mary Jane Rubenstein’s real target in “Astrotopia” is not the corporate space race, but the very ideas of humanism and progress.

Robert Zubrin

30 May 2023 · 6 min read

Manufacturing Dissent

Activists and opinion-formers on the Left and Right have been persuaded that living under anything besides the kind of governance they want means they’ve been cheated.