Literary Prozac
Matthew Gasda’s new novel unfolds in a haze of empty dialogue and overwrought introspection.
Brad Strotten
· 7 min read
Podcast #290: The Wars Before the War
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay interviews Jonathan Spyer, director of research at the Middle East Forum, about how Israel laid the groundwork for its war with Iran by confronting threats in Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen.
Quillette
· 14 min read
Destroying Iran’s Nuclear Arsenal
Israel faces two major challenges: destroying the Iranian enrichment plant at Fordow and locating and eliminating the country’s stockpile of enriched uranium. For the first, it will need US assistance.
Benny Morris
· 13 min read
Discussing the Iran–Israel War with an Iranian Dissident | Quillette Cetera Ep. 48
As missiles fly between Tehran and Tel Aviv, Iranian dissident Danial Taghaddos joins Zoe to explain what the West gets wrong about the regime, the nuclear threat, and the future of his homeland.
Zoe Booth
· 23 min read
Theatre of Blood
Seduction and submission in the work of the Marquis de Sade.
Yuki Zeman
· 19 min read
Education’s Elephant in the Room
We devote a lot of resources to trying to equalise student outcomes, but under ideal learning conditions, individual differences in student achievement widen.
Russell T. Warne
· 21 min read
It Should Never Have Come to This
If we hadn’t spent so long pretending that ‘trans women are women,’ the growing political movement to align our laws with biological reality wouldn’t have been necessary.
Robert Wintemute
· 16 min read
Beheading the Snake
The Israeli attack on Iran is in line with its longstanding policy of never allowing its neighbouring enemies to acquire nuclear weapons. But it is also the latest episode in the wider war against Israel launched in late 2023 by Iran’s proxies.
Benny Morris
· 11 min read
Podcast #289: The Catastrophe Hour
Writer Meghan Daum talks to Iona Italia about her new essay collection, The Catastrophe Hour.
Quillette, Meghan Daum
· 45 min read
The Rise and Fall of Liberal Internationalism
The post-Cold War democratic wave has receded and the free world now appears to be learning from authoritarian regimes instead of the other way around.
Matt Johnson
· 23 min read
Falling Fertility: A Crisis We Refuse to Face
Fertility decline is not merely a demographic curiosity—it is a structural challenge with civilisational implications. So why are people so reluctant to take it seriously?
Andrew Glover
· 7 min read
The Truth About Narcissistic Personality Disorder with Giancarlo Dimaggio | Quillette Cetera Ep. 47
A leading expert in narcissism explains why it’s so often misunderstood—and why narcissists deserve more empathy, not armchair diagnosis on social media.
Zoe Booth
· 20 min read
Playing with Helpless Dead Puppets
‘Ragtime,’ E.L. Doctorow’s forgotten novel of Progressive Era New York, is a reminder of how much American politics have changed over the past century.
Josh Allan
· 9 min read
The Globalised Intifada
For at least some, globalising the Intifada means exporting the tactics of Hamas to the West, thus threatening peaceful liberal societies everywhere.
John Aziz
· 8 min read
It’s No Longer 1937...
Disney’s awful new Snow White adaptation fails to recreate or even understand the story it is trying to tell.
Charlotte Allen
· 18 min read