Why do so many people reflexively favour social solutions to climate change while discounting the promise of technological breakthroughs? The answer lies in our evolutionary past.
Vincenzo Latronico’s prismatic novel ‘Perfection’ is a lament for the hopes and dreams of a generation reconfigured by the internet.
Classical music was one of the first fields to impose the self-censorship that now pervades so many areas of intellectual and cultural life.
Scottish feminists are angry that an accomplished male sculptor has been commissioned to make a statue of a suffragette.
A tribute to groundbreaking pop star Melanie Safka (1947–2024).
Alexandre Dumas’s novel is by turns an adventure story, a paean to bourgeois values, and a Greek epic. No wonder it continues to fascinate.
Though faith may provide comfort to some, it cannot produce reliable facts about nature that can be used to repair a divided populace.
Assuring the long-term future of Earth’s wildlife requires more economic and technological development, not less.
Quillette editor Jonathan Kay reviews three newly published history books about the Assyrian Empire, the fall of the Romanovs, and the travels of Marco Polo.
Consigned to the political wilderness, progressives and left-liberals could do a lot worse than shed their disdain for patriotism.
With ‘Emilia Pérez,’ Jacques Audiard created—intentionally or unintentionally—a subversive assault on every plank of the current transgender credo.
The current approach to energy and environmental policy isn’t just unsustainable—it has put us on a collision course with reality.
Rare is the word that has antithetical meanings depending on the speaker and listener, the intent and reception. This is one such rarity.
South Korean Nobel laureate Han Kang’s literary experimentation thwarts rather than advances her professed concern for the suffering of everyone, everywhere, all the time.
Eminem’s music helped him to cope with his own suffering. It also helped his listeners cope with theirs.