The Evolutionary History of Man's Best Friend Revealed
Dogs are the only domestic species who have been with us since the Pleistocene, which ended 11,500 years ago.
Razib Khan
· 7 min read
What We Owe to ‘The Boys in the Band’—and Other Classics of Gay Film
I’m grateful to every straight director, actor, and writer who has taken up the cause over the last 60 years, and to their closeted friends and colleagues who inspired them.
Allan Stratton
· 15 min read
China’s Stateless Nations
Aaron Sarin
· 11 min read
Australia’s Population Ponzi Scheme
The environmental havoc is justified as needed for the economy, but the evidence does not support this claim.
Kelvin Thomson
· 4 min read
From “Who Gets What?” to “Who Are We?”
The culture wars revolve around highly charged, deeply personal issues that are exceedingly difficult to compromise upon.
Jonathon P. Sine
· 15 min read
PODCAST 119: Cult expert and deprogrammer Rick Ross on NXIVM, founder Keith Raniere, and the many tactics cults use to exploit the unwary
Rick Ross, executive director of the nonprofit Cult Education Institute, speaks with Quillette’s Jonathan Kay about infamous cult leader (and now convicted felon) Keith Raniere, who spent 14 years suing Ross for telling the truth about NXIVM.
Quillette, Jonathan Kay
· 1 min read
Racial Justice: Don’t Abandon the Incrementalist Approach
Another reason that many liberals have increasingly rejected incrementalism is that racial disparities appear to be unchanged.
Robert Cherry
· 7 min read
PODCAST 118: Novelist Lionel Shriver talks to Toby Young about intellectual conformity, being a lockdown sceptic, and her new book
Literary superstar Lionel Shriver talks to Toby Young about the pandemic, the rush to embrace Covid orthodoxy by politicians and scientists, and the suppression of dissenting voices by big tech and the mainstream media, including hers.
Quillette, Toby Young
· 1 min read
How Availability Cascades are Shaping our Politics
Two components make up an availability cascade: an informational cascade and a reputational cascade.
Vincent Harinam and David Kopel
· 11 min read
Antiracism, Anti-Semitism, and the False Problem of Jewish Success
There’s no such thing as too many Jews among the “faces of power.”
Daniel Friedman
· 15 min read
What Happened to America’s Soft Power?
What Marc saw as relatively smooth sailing for the CIA’s critical operations during the first two years of the Trump administration is beginning to change.
Art Keller
· 8 min read
Reflections on Solzhenitsyn's Harvard Address
This imbalance between rights and responsibilities is not only restricted to individuals, it is also affecting our governmental, societal, and cultural institutions.
Sergiu Klainerman
· 12 min read
What Divides Us Is Class, Not Race
What we need are policies—including trade and immigration policies—that help us carve up the economic pie in a way that sees all workers get their fair share, no matter what their ethnicity.
Jeff Rubin
· 10 min read
Elder Millennial Metalheads: Our Shrinking World of Dark Thoughts and Bad Jobs
We are a generation of smart, strong, caring, conscientious men, full of kinetic energy that I now see dispersed through alcoholism, drug abuse, depression, anxiety, violence, and death.
Matthew Amos
· 8 min read
Chile’s Elites Are Creating Another Latin American Populist Meltdown. Voters Must Stop Them
The main hope for Chile lies with the requirement that voters approve any new constitution.
Axel Kaiser
· 7 min read