Capturing the ‘Odyssey’
Homer’s epic provides a window on to a strange, paradoxical, fascinating, beautiful, and terrifying world that is at once familiar and unfamiliar.
Mallory Young
· 8 min read
Biting the Hand
Artists increasingly insist that their work and their politics are indivisible. They should not be surprised when the institutions that fund them agree.
Juliet Moses
· 15 min read
Sex Differences Above the Neck
The evidence for innate sex differences has been accumulating for decades. Steve Stewart-Williams's new book is a welcome inventory.
Jerry A. Coyne
· 16 min read
A Beautiful Odyssey, Made Dreary By Remorse
Christopher Nolan’s creation is a big movie in every technical sense. But inside, it is diminished and faded: heroes who aren’t allowed to be heroes and gods who aren’t allowed to be gods.
Charlotte Allen
· 14 min read
Is the Pro-Palestine Movement Israel’s Unlikely Ally?
By framing terrorism and armed struggle as legitimate resistance, the pro-Palestine movement has unwittingly strengthened Israel’s case that withdrawal and concessions carry unacceptable risks.
Royee Zvi Atadgy
· 6 min read
Men Without Meaning
Men are quietly leaving the workforce—not for lack of jobs, but for lack of purpose.
Tanveer Ahmed
· 10 min read
The Rise of Sainte-Marie Among the Hurons
In the 30th instalment of ‘Nations of Canada,’ Greg Koabel describes the expanding Jesuit presence of the late 1630s—and the increasingly bitter opposition it provoked among France’s local Indigenous allies.
Greg Koabel
· 21 min read
The ‘Sex Recession’ is Real
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to Debra Soh, author of ‘Sextinction: The Decline of Sex and the Future of Intimacy,’ about neuroscience, hypergamy, elephant seals, politicised sex research, the perils of polyamory, and the sex-repellent scourge of 'phubbing.'
Blood, Progress, and Amnesia
There is real value in Noah Rothman's century-spanning chronicle of left-wing terror, but it falls short in analysis.
Jason Manning
· 9 min read
The Grift at the Gate
The Grift Industrial Complex targeted Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey—and got buried.
Giancarlo Sopo
· 8 min read
Ireland's Antisemitism Crisis with Rachel Moiselle | Quillette Cetera Episode 68
Activist Rachel Moiselle on why a country with 3,000 Jews obsesses over Israel, how antizionism became a faith, and the cost of speaking out.
Zoe Sankey
· 44 min read
On the Brink Again
A collapsed ceasefire has pushed America and Iran back towards full-scale war over the Strait of Hormuz. Now Trump must decide whether to finish the job or give Tehran one more chance.
Benny Morris
· 10 min read
They See Dead People
Following on false claims that 215 child corpses were discovered in western Canada, a First Nations chief claims that Indigenous people can communicate with departed spirits.
Jonathan Kay
· 8 min read