Is the Great Feminisation Inevitable?
We must act quickly to reverse illiberal trends among young men and women alike.
Gideon Scopes
· 10 min read
Why Housing Is Becoming Neo-Feudal: The Collapse of Home Ownership
Why are households struggling to buy homes in advanced economies, and what does the erosion of ownership mean for inequality, family formation, and the resilience of liberal democracy?
Joel Kotkin, Zoe Booth
· 10 min read
Ignorance and Indignation
Obama veterans never understood the Middle East, and they never will.
Brian Stewart
· 16 min read
Sociobiology on Trial
Wilson wanted to apply Darwin to everything from ants to humans. In response, the media embarked on a crusade to discredit him.
Peggy Sastre
· 14 min read
Island of Spies
The British establishment is experiencing a schism over China policy and approval of a controversial new embassy.
Aaron Sarin
· 9 min read
The Conned Artist
David Mamet’s new polemic is filled with muddled prose and muddled thought.
Graham Daseler
· 11 min read
Podcast #315: Marriage and Divorce in America
Managing Editor Iona Italia talks to sociologist Nicholas Wolfinger about trends in marriage, divorce, and maternity in the US from the 1950s to the present day.
Quillette, Nicholas Wolfinger
· 27 min read
Russian Lies Won’t Bring Peace
The latest Russian “peace proposal” is a set of demands designed to enable a complete Russian takeover of Ukraine, which would otherwise be impossible to achieve.
Stephan Jensen
· 6 min read
More Vaccine Fearmongering
By spreading unproven claims that Covid-19 vaccines caused the deaths of children, Trump's FDA continues to undermine public trust in vaccines, with disturbing implications for the health of Americans.
Henry I. Miller
· 6 min read
A Brief History of Inbreeding
How kinship, culture, and genetics shaped one of humanity’s oldest taboos.
Francisco Ceballos
· 12 min read
How Antisemitism Returned: From Medieval Europe to the Free Palestine Protests
Why is antisemitism resurging? Why has support for Hamas taken hold on Western campuses? And how do Qatar, media narratives, and fading Holocaust memory feed today’s crisis?
Benny Morris, Zoe Booth
· 6 min read
Embryo Selection: A Guide for the Curious
A look at the process, history, and ethics of a potentially revolutionary new technology.
Rosalind Arden
· 22 min read
The New Speech Wars
At this year’s Global Free Speech Summit, there was a widespread sense that the US is at a perilous juncture.
Cathy Young
· 12 min read
Podcast #314: A Gay Author’s Escape from Cults, Drugs, Queer Radicalism, and ‘Scrupulosity’
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with writer Ben Appel about his new memoir, ‘Cis White Gay: The Making of a Gender Heretic.’
Ben Appel
· 72 min read
Too Much Gilbert
The author of ‘Eat Pray Love’ has returned with a new memoir, which features all the usual problems with her writing writ large.
Charlotte Allen
· 22 min read