The Kremlin’s Bots, Trolls, and Influencers Russia’s information war against the West is a comprehensive, coordinated effort to manipulate the information ecosystems of entire societies. Sonny Loughran 24 Nov 2024 · 10 min read
Donald Trump and the Great Man Theory of History As with Napoleon Bonaparte, one cannot confidently state that if Trump had never been born, someone like him would have done what he did. Jason Garshfield 22 Nov 2024 · 10 min read
An Unscientific American Editor-in-chief Laura Helmuth’s departure from ‘Scientific American’ last week is an object lesson in the dangers of mixing facts and ideology. Michael Shermer 21 Nov 2024 · 12 min read
Nuclear Power Is Already Great When “nuclear-loving greens” demand innovation, they imply something is wrong with current reactors, and slow down climate policy. This needs to stop. Marco Visscher 20 Nov 2024 · 9 min read
The Church at a Crossroads Whoever becomes the next Archbishop of Canterbury will face the arduous task of uniting the now-radicalised wings of the Church of England. John Lloyd 20 Nov 2024 · 10 min read
Podcast #260: Making Britain Great Again Iona Italia talks to Sam Bowman about how to combat the economic stagnation and excess bureaucracy that are currently preventing the UK from reaching its full potential. Quillette 20 Nov 2024 · 53 min read
A Rose-Tinted View of Immigration Hein de Haas’s new book has been billed as a balanced, fact-based approach to the immigration debate. In fact, it is just another Pollyannaish pro-immigration polemic. Steije Hofhuis 19 Nov 2024 · 10 min read
Brainwashing and Blood Feuds The Communist Party bears responsibility for the outbursts of Chinese hatred against Japan and its citizens. Aaron Sarin 18 Nov 2024 · 9 min read
I Thought Being a Gay Man Would Save Me From Womanhood (It Didn’t) Queer theory transformed me from a depressed, weird, intellectually curious child into a brainwashed teen who disfigured her body. Laura Becker 18 Nov 2024 · 11 min read
Anti-Zionism’s German Roots While Islam traditionally treated Jews with contempt, antisemitic conspiracy theories imported from Germany escalated this animosity by vilifying Jews as agents of diabolical evil. Gerfried Ambrosch 18 Nov 2024 · 11 min read
Podcast #259: The Campaign Against ‘Settler Colonialism’ Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to author Adam Kirsch about the growing corps of academics and activists seeking to demonise ‘settler colonialists’ in North America, Australia—and especially Israel. Quillette 14 Nov 2024 · 23 min read
Savage Entertainment A new version of Tinto Brass and Bob Guccione’s notorious 1979 film ‘Caligula’ provides a valuable record of one of the most fascinating disasters in cinema history. Jaspreet Singh Boparai 14 Nov 2024 · 30 min read
Decline and Folly ‘Megalopolis’ and the rise and fall of Francis Ford Coppola. Oliver Jia 13 Nov 2024 · 13 min read
The Centre Must Rise No centrist who understands the current moment has ever truly laid out their case to the Democratic Party base in the context of a serious political campaign. It’s time to change that. Jack Despain Zhou 13 Nov 2024 · 8 min read