Zohran Mamdani’s brand of socialism appeals to the luxury beliefs of New York’s middle classes. If his preferred policies are implemented, New Yorkers will suffer—and the poorest of them will be most impacted.
The assumption that once drove creative writing—that interior life deserves as much respect and interest as the latest bump in relations at the White House—no longer obtains.
Iona Italia talks to Professor Kendall Clements of the University of Auckland about attempts to conflate traditional Maori knowledge with science, which, he argues, debases both.
The Chinese student has become the face of Western academia’s Chinese corruption problem, but her critics are missing something more important.
In Hereditary and Midsommar, Aster's characters search for their place in the world—and can only find it by embracing evil.
The Israel-Iran conflict may already be over, following the destruction of Iran’s nuclear facilities. But the future is deeply uncertain.
Before Han Solo and Indiana Jones, there was another Harrison Ford, a star of silent cinema.
In ‘Hegemony,’ board-gamers take on the role of wage workers and plutocrats fighting for societal supremacy.
From the Iliad to Mission: Impossible, creators have wrestled with the question of how much universe-building is too much.
Twenty years after his death, what Hunter S. Thompson’s legacy—or lack of it—tells us about literature and manhood in our current moment.
When Westerners hate the West.
Matthew Gasda’s new novel unfolds in a haze of empty dialogue and overwrought introspection.
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay interviews Jonathan Spyer, director of research at the Middle East Forum, about how Israel laid the groundwork for its war with Iran by confronting threats in Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen.
Israel faces two major challenges: destroying the Iranian enrichment plant at Fordow and locating and eliminating the country’s stockpile of enriched uranium. For the first, it will need US assistance.
As missiles fly between Tehran and Tel Aviv, Iranian dissident Danial Taghaddos joins Zoe to explain what the West gets wrong about the regime, the nuclear threat, and the future of his homeland.