The Best Kind of Political Art
Chimamanda Adichie’s new novel is refreshingly defiant of liberal orthodoxies.
Holly Lawford-Smith
· 7 min read
Snakes in the Backyard
Pakistan is failing to control the terrorist groups that are headquartered within its borders and pose a serious threat to both India and the West.
Aneela Mirchandani
· 6 min read
A Minority of One
A valuable new collection of wartime letters written by Leslie Fiedler shows how politically astute the budding literary critic was about communism.
Ron Capshaw
· 7 min read
The Problem With ‘Harvard Derangement Syndrome’
Harvard professor Steven Pinker tells Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay why Donald Trump’s campaign against his university’s ‘woke’ policies goes too far.
Jonathan Kay, Steven Pinker
· 19 min read
An Evening in Neukölln
On 10 May, US historian Jeffrey Herf spoke at a small café in Berlin established to discuss antisemitism and the Western Left’s growing hostility to the state of Israel.
Jeffrey Herf
· 10 min read
The Zero-Sum Squid Game
What the Korean hit gets wrong about capitalism and right about government.
Ilya Levine
· 9 min read
Religious Reasoning
The first and largest mistake Douthat makes in his new book is to argue that faith and rationality are mutually supportive.
Graham Daseler
· 15 min read
Ancient DNA and the Return of a Disgraced Theory
This is a story of some of the greatest findings in modern research, and of the dismal narrow-mindedness and motivated reasoning displayed by scholars who ought to know better.
Tristan S. Rapp
· 14 min read
How The Blues Brothers Saved American Music
The Blues Brothers (1980) fostered a renewed appreciation of some of the best music America has ever produced.
Jacob Bielecki
· 12 min read
Unholy Alliance
Douglas Murray’s new book looks at the dangers posed by the burgeoning coalition of radical leftists and Islamists in the wake of 7 October.
Michael M. Rosen
· 9 min read
The Biggest Taboo in Academia: Israel, with Maarten Boudry | Quillette Cetera Ep. 46
"That was the moment I realised I had underestimated the ideological rot inside academia."
Zoe Booth, Maarten Boudry
· 21 min read
Is the University Of Austin Betraying Its Free-Speech Principles?
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Ellie Avishai—who recently lost her affiliated position at UATX after she pushed back against the school’s strident anti-DEI messaging.
Quillette
· 3 min read
Plotting Lives of Quiet Contentment
Modern literature’s tiresome preoccupation with misery and victimhood is neglecting whole swathes of the human experience.
Mallory Young
· 7 min read
AI and the Death of Literary Criticism
The discipline of English literature seems unlikely to survive the coming technological tsunami—and maybe it doesn’t deserve to. And I say this as a professor of English, who believes in the power of the written word.
Thomas P. Balazs
· 8 min read
Poised to Strike
Israel prepares for a final push into Gaza—but will it be stymied by criticism from abroad and discontent at home?
Benny Morris
· 11 min read