Tara Freesoul and the Future of China
After decades of brainwashing, China continues to produce dissidents who absorb the same information as their classmates but reject it.
Aaron Sarin
· 7 min read
I Will Find a City
Jonathan Gould’s new Talking Heads biography recalls a once-thriving and now disintegrating independent media network that could elevate eccentrics with potential.
Matt Hanson
· 7 min read
What Is the Evolutionary Purpose of Female Orgasm? with Robert King | Quillette Cetera Ep. 56
Evolutionary psychologist Robert King joins Quillette to discuss the science of female orgasm, human sexual behaviour, and insights from his book Naturally Selective.
Zoe Booth, Robert King
· 28 min read
The Qatar Problem
Doha can change when it is forced to, and it must be forced to choose moderation.
Chama Mechtaly
· 14 min read
Algorithmic Supremacists and AI Hype
Amid all the overexcitement about artificial intelligence, there is little room for public consideration of mind-blowing findings on natural intelligence.
David Weitzner
· 10 min read
The Scandal of Ana Caldas, and the Case for Sex Screening in Female Athletics
Caldas’s tragicomic sixteen-year saga—spanning record-breaking runs in four sports—demonstrates just how far some male athletes will go to hide their true identities.
Jonathan Kay
· 17 min read
A Perfect Storm
How Muslim and Christian antisemitism have converged with anti-Israel sentiment—some of it justified—to fuel the Free Palestine protests across the West.
Benny Morris
· 10 min read
Owned by the Audience
Online audiences have become increasingly radicalised by predatory algorithms pushing conspiratorial, schizophrenic narratives and content creators are rewarded for feeding into them.
Corey Walker
· 5 min read
Quillette Podcast #308: Machetes in Melbourne
Managing Editor Iona Italia talks to criminal justice researcher Andrew Bushnell about the many causes of the recent surge in crime in Melbourne.
Quillette, Andrew Bushnell
· 27 min read
The Liberal Case against Human Rights
The philosophy that underpins the European Convention on Human Rights is undemocratic, illiberal, and incoherent.
Renie Anjeh
· 15 min read
A Self-Created Tyrant
In a new biography of Stalin, William Nester does his best to locate a human being within the monster, but those efforts eventually run aground.
Ron Capshaw
· 6 min read
Appetite for Destruction
Trump and the art of the demolition, from Bonwit Teller to the White House.
Julia Friedman
· 8 min read
The Middle East Will Not Improve
Decades of free riding has meant that many Middle East countries lack the skills and institutions necessary to maintain and build upon the favourable circumstances in which they now find themselves.
Eric Bordenkircher
· 10 min read
Inside the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’s War-Zone Aid Operation
An in-depth interview with Chapin Fay of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation on delivering aid in a war zone—and why their unconventional model has drawn both praise and criticism.
Pamela Paresky
· 27 min read
Terror’s Intelligence Apparatus
Netanel Flamer’s book about Hamas’s intelligence war on Israel could be read with equal interest by members of Western security forces, and by members of the very groups against which they struggle.
Daniel Allington
· 7 min read