Podcast #300: The Modular Mind
Managing Editor Iona Italia talks to evolutionary psychologist Rob Kurzban about his book 'Why Everyone (Else) Is a Hypocrite: Evolution and the Modular Mind.'
Quillette
· 56 min read
Censoring John and Yoko
A new boxset edits out one of John Lennon’s most controversial songs.
Christian Kriticos
· 13 min read
Even in Failure, Nicola Sturgeon Has Learned Nothing
After championing a failed independence campaign and viciously denigrating women seeking to protect female spaces, Scotland’s ex-first minister insists that she’s the real victim.
Joan Smith
· 16 min read
Naive Protest and Calculated Terror
The Australian security services have confirmed that Iran orchestrated antisemitic attacks in Sydney and Melbourne. This is not the first time leftist causes have been hijacked by Islamists. It is time we confronted this danger.
The Quillette Editorial Board
· 5 min read
The Bronze Age Energy Crisis
How a supply chain failure brought down an ancient civilisation: a tale with disturbing implications for present day societies with their brittle energy logistics.
Joseph Zeller
· 9 min read
The Heterofatalism Trap
Essays about contemporary dating are mistaking cruelty for liberation.
Daniel Lehewych
· 14 min read
A Baseless Attack on Groundbreaking RSV Therapies
A member of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices is spreading misinformation about new antibody treatments that protect children from serious Respiratory Syncytial Virus infections.
Jake Scott
· 9 min read
The Geopolitical Thriller: A Right-Wing Genre
Other plots may attract both right and left-wing authors, but successful geopolitical thrillers are always informed by a conservative view of the world.
Stewart Slater
· 10 min read
How Cancel Culture and Sensitivity Readers Are Shaping the Publishing Industry and Silencing Dissent | Quillette Cetera Ep. 51
As literary gatekeeping intensifies in the age of social media, author and Harvard fellow Adam Szetela joins Zoe to unpack how moral panics, elite ideology, and institutional cowardice are transforming publishing—and why the culture wars are being fought sentence by sentence.
Zoe Booth
· 27 min read
Podcast #299: A Jewish Girl in Revolutionary Iran
Managing Editor Iona Italia talks to Roya Hakakian about her extraordinary memoir, Journey from the Land of No: A Girlhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran.
Roya Hakakian, Quillette
· 41 min read
Skewing the Overton Window
The double standard in the way in which fascism and communism, the extremist ideologies of the Right and Left, are regarded distorts political discourse.
Tomislav Kardum
· 6 min read
The Neo-Romantic Revolt
The rise of a three-pronged politics of unreason.
Shalom Lappin
· 14 min read
Sarin Is Also Wrong on China
Aaron Sarin’s misreadings of my essay support my thesis and show why we need to think more carefully about China.
D. Marshall
· 9 min read
The Sensitivity Era
Amid literary subcultures, competition has always been fierce and unrelenting and has become even more so in our age of elite overproduction. On social media, these embittered rivalries play out in public amid a chorus of backbiting worthy of Chekhov.
Robert Huddleston
· 8 min read
The Deformist Tendency
A new book presents a cogent diagnosis of the ills plaguing American society, but also reactionary prescriptions for ameliorating them.
Brian Stewart
· 8 min read