The Paranoid Style in Shakespeare Denialism Against conspiracist trends, there is an obligation on defenders of a liberal society to uphold the integrity of its intellectual methods. Oliver Kamm 2 May 2024 · 25 min read
Disorder in Heaven The end of greatness in heavyweight combat sports. Alexander Blum 30 Apr 2024 · 7 min read
The Wendat World In the nineteenth instalment of ‘Nations of Canada,’ Greg Koabel describes how Indigenous societies greeted the French influx of the early seventeenth century. Greg Koabel 29 Apr 2024 · 23 min read
The Cass Effect A landmark report properly emphasises the application of science, not slogans, in establishing treatment protocols for trans-identified children. The Quillette Editorial Board 29 Apr 2024 · 14 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 · 7 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
Peter Higgs (1929–2024): A Gentle Giant of Science We have lost an important scientist; we have also lost a wonderful man. Lawrence M. Krauss 14 Apr 2024 · 7 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 · 11 min read
Jean-Luc Godard in Retrospect Part I: Abstraction Hero (1930–65) A brief five-year period produced nearly all the Godard movies that film aficionados still remember, but even these celebrated works have dated poorly. Charlotte Allen 10 Apr 2024 · 33 min read
Reflections on the Eclipse In the modern world, it is easy to forget our connection to celestial objects and how important that connection has been throughout human history. Lawrence M. Krauss 9 Apr 2024 · 5 min read
The Delta Variant John Landis’s 1978 comedy classic ‘Animal House’ is a time capsule from an era when humor and campus politics were very different. George Case 8 Apr 2024 · 9 min read
Under Attila’s Gaze In the ninth instalment of ‘The So-Called Dark Ages,’ Herbert Bushman describes a Roman diplomat’s famous fifth-century journey into the heart of Hunnic territory. Herbert Bushman 5 Apr 2024 · 28 min read
Against Agency Attending to Shakespeare on his own terms may allow us to reclaim the erotic warmth that is latent in our human condition. Marilyn Simon 4 Apr 2024 · 8 min read
Sex and Smashed Steel A look back at J.G. Ballard's ‘Crash’—one of the the 20th century’s greatest and most disturbingly prophetic novels. Benjamin Kerstein 2 Apr 2024 · 25 min read
Narcissism for All Forty-five years ago, Christopher Lasch identified what has become a defining feature of modern activism—“the ever-present, neurotic need to be recognized and affirmed.” Julia Friedman 30 Mar 2024 · 10 min read
