Power Beyond Realpolitik
In geopolitics, moral culture shapes whether influence is experienced as leadership or domination, cooperation or coercion.
Scott Atran
· 8 min read
I Used to Beat Up Sex Offenders. Now I Question the Mob.
An ex-prisoner reflects on Jeffrey Epstein, the Epstein files, Prince Andrew, and the rise of online conspiracy theories.
Ben Gunn
· 7 min read
An Hour of Reckoning
Iran has never been weaker and America has never been more poorly led.
Brian Stewart
· 7 min read
Podcast #326: Catching a Serial Killer
Managing Editor Iona Italia speaks with Maureen Callahan about her book "American Predator", which chronicles the crimes of serial killer Israel Keyes.
Quillette
· 1 min read
After Trump’s Iran Decision
The real dilemma is not between war and negotiation. It is between episodic action and sustained architecture.
Allen Zeesman
· 7 min read
Islamism: Shooting the Messenger
The British establishment tends to deflect attention from the dangers of Islamism by attempting to silence those who point them out.
John Aziz
· 8 min read
The End of Australian Exceptionalism
The surge in support for Australia’s populist right-wing party One Nation suggests that immigration restrictionism has become increasingly popular with voters: a political trajectory that echoes that of many other Western nations.
Eric Kaufmann
· 9 min read
Ezra Klein’s Feeble Liberalism
Liberals must act aggressively to uphold the values of free society.
Brian Stewart
· 10 min read
Trump’s Iranian Dilemma
President Donald Trump must choose between a military strike on Iran, whose consequences no one can predict, and a deal that would leave the Islamic Republic still able to attack its own citizens, menace Israel, and export terrorism worldwide.
Benny Morris
· 10 min read
Podcast #325: Why We Need to Talk About Transgender School Shooters
Jonathan Kay speaks with journalist Adam Zivo about the 10 February school shooting in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia—a mass murder perpetrated by a trans-identified male gunman who was initially identified by police and journalists as a woman.
Quillette
· 3 min read
Nine Intellectual Virtues
Either universities appoint and promote professors who display and disseminate intellectual virtues, or they reward those who exemplify and cultivate intellectual vices.
Nigel Biggar
· 6 min read
The Cost of Indifference
The sad and curious case of the chronic fatigue syndrome.
Samuel Kronen
· 16 min read
Bertrand Russell’s Cancellation and the Ongoing Battle Over Campus Speech
How religious conservatives cancelled philosopher Bertrand Russell in 1940, sparking academic freedom debates that echo today.
James Huffman
· 7 min read
The Gender Identity Debate
A selection of Quillette essays and interviews examining the cultural, scientific, and legal dimensions of gender identity.
Quillette
· 7 min read
Terror and Transformation
Southeast Asia in World War II, Part Two: The Japanese Occupation and Its Repercussions
Imran Said
· 12 min read