A Hardy Myth
A reply to Bruce Gilley.
Oliver Kamm
· 7 min read
Bodies of Evidence
When combined thoughtfully with traditional historical methods, analysis of ancient DNA can illuminate the lives, characters, and motivations of people long dead.
Patrick Whittle
· 11 min read
Authorship in an Age of Automation
The quiet erosion of responsibility in an age of machine-generated prose.
Kieran Beville
· 6 min read
The Women of January 6th
A new book details the conspiratorial thinking and dark histories of two Capitol rioters.
Claire Lehmann
· 7 min read
Stormclouds Over the Capitol
Mary Clare Jalonick’s oral history of the 6 January riot is an important corrective to the second Trump administration’s vandalism of the historical record.
Ron Capshaw
· 7 min read
Survival of the Fitting
How a set of unglamorous enzymes quietly solved biology’s biggest problem: how to create and uphold a set of rules that make meaning from molecules.
Praveen Prathapan
· 6 min read
AI and the End of Common Culture
Culture is fragmented; it is about to become atomised.
Samuel Fitoussi
· 6 min read
Precipice of Collapse
Two new books about America’s justice system paint a bleak picture of a deeply divided country.
Ron Capshaw
· 8 min read
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
· 19 min read
Tech Wants You to Believe that AI Is Conscious
Tech companies stand to benefit from widespread public misperceptions that AI is sentient despite a dearth of scientific evidence.
Nadav Neuman
· 8 min read
Can Art Convey Truth?
Ways of feeling are not ways of knowing.
Jerry A. Coyne
· 8 min read
The Gospel According to Pasolini
Pasolini's 1964 film reimagines the gospels as fundamentally Jewish stories.
Robert Huddleston
· 8 min read
Alfred Hitchcock’s Christmas Movie
‘Psycho’ deserves recognition as a classic film for the festive season.
Christian Kriticos
· 9 min read
“These Songs Are Timeless”
Forty Years on, Dire Straits’ bassist John Illsley talks to Quillette about the band’s 1985 masterpiece, ‘Brothers in Arms.’
Hannah Gal
· 9 min read
Cynicism and Cigarettes
Richard Linklater’s film about the making of Jean-Luc Godard’s ‘À Bout de Souffle’ is a delight.
Charlotte Allen
· 17 min read