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The grave of Hamas’s top political leader Saleh Arouri. Gravestone, flowers, a picture of Arouri.

The Pros and Cons of Targeted Killing

By striking Shukur and Haniyeh in the capital cities of Lebanon and Iran respectively, Israel has sent Iran a humiliating and painful message.

Andrew Fox

12 Aug 2024 · 11 min read

Benjamin Netanyahu, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Karim Ahmad Khan, Winston Churchill

Double Effect and Human Rights in War

The flawed moral reasoning of the ICC’s panel of legal experts would have approved the arrests of Churchill and Eisenhower.

Nigel Biggar

11 Aug 2024 · 6 min read

Podcast #246: How Gender Activists Took Over a Scottish Rape-Crisis Centre

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to writer Joan Smith about the scandals that unfolded at the Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre under the leadership of its male trans-identified CEO, Mridul Wadhwa.

Jonathan Kay

9 Aug 2024 · 22 min read

The Professor, His Nemesis, and a Scandal at Oberlin

The story of how a liberal college promoted and defended an Iranian Islamist and betrayed its own values.

Roya Hakakian

8 Aug 2024 · 31 min read

Two Wars, a Wedding, and a Funeral

In the eleventh instalment of ‘The So-Called Dark Ages,’ Herbert Bushman describes the dramatic events preceding the death of Attila the Hun.

Herbert Bushman

8 Aug 2024 · 12 min read

Disuniting Australia

What happens when the values of multiculturalism conflict with homophobic, misogynistic, and deeply anti-democratic strains of Islam?

Alan Davison

7 Aug 2024 · 17 min read

Totems and Taboos

A cancelled academic has produced a fine new book about the threat posed by progressive pieties.

John Lloyd

6 Aug 2024 · 9 min read

America’s Last Great Political Novel

In anticipation of the Democrats’ Convention in Chicago, a look back at Joe Klein’s splendid 1996 novel ‘Primary Colors’—a fascinating snapshot of Democratic Party politics at the end of the 20th century.

Kevin Mims

6 Aug 2024 · 22 min read

Image of Mridul Wadhwa in a checked sari, sitting in a chair.

Gaslighting Scottish Rape Victims in the Name of ‘Trans Inclusion’

For three years, Edinburgh’s rape-crisis centre was run by a male CEO who lectured sex-assault victims and staff about their ‘prejudice’ against the male body. How was this allowed to happen?