The U.S. and the Holocaust—A Review
Ken Burns’s new six-hour documentary is a work of extraordinary synoptic power and intelligence.
Thomas Doherty
· 16 min read
Our Glorious Unhead of State
The idea of an Australian republic is attractive to some, but there's a strong case for a humble head of state.
Harry Lehmann
· 4 min read
Should the GOP Continue to Embrace Populism? Two Responses
Quillette readers Joe Benning and Charles N.W. Keckler give their responses.
Quillette
· 8 min read
Quillette Weekly
The late Peter Straub, defending truth-seeking in history, and the young Queen Elizabeth.
Claire Lehmann
· 3 min read
Lessons from Hannah Arendt on Arresting Our ‘Flight From Reality’
Fascism, communism, and transhumanism all lure us into rejecting the real human condition in favor of ideological constructs.
Roger Berkowitz
· 13 min read
Horseshoe Theory Comes to Ukraine
Putin’s Western apologists don’t reflect the usual conflict between Left and Right—but rather comprise an example of both poles making common cause against the center.
The Quillette Editorial Board
· 7 min read
Child Welfare Is Becoming a Joke
The field is mired in risible theory and impenetrable jargon, and increasingly divorced from concern with the welfare of children.
Naomi Schaefer Riley
· 6 min read
Math for Future Scientists: Require Statistics, Not Calculus
The case for ending calculus requirements for science majors.
Robert C. Thornett
· 8 min read
The Young Elizabeth, Seen Through a Child’s Eyes
The diaries of Elizabeth’s wartime companion illustrates the special burdens faced by royalty—and Elizabeth’s fitness to bear them
Barbara Kay
· 13 min read
Never Apologize for Trying to Tell the Truth
Those who repress inconvenient facts or produce fictitious evidence to nourish a politically convenient story are simply not historians.
Jeffrey Herf
· 8 min read
Peter Straub, 1943–2022
Farewell to another of the Big Six novelists from the Golden Age of American horror fiction.
Kevin Mims
· 13 min read
Quillette Weekly
Ukraine takes back territory, and remembering Queen Elizabeth II 1926 - 2022
Claire Lehmann
· 5 min read
Reject the Rules of the Social Media Game
The only winning move is not to play.
Niamh Jiménez
· 20 min read