Promises Made and (Eventually) Kept
The Declaration of Independence at 250.
Michael M. Rosen
· 8 min read
Gloomy Optimist
Jefferson emerges as a man who doubted democracy's permanence yet placed his faith in future generations. Onuf and Cogliano rescue him from caricature—even if one dimension of his thought remains in shadow.
Ron Capshaw
· 6 min read
Abolish Everything, Replace It With What?
Zohran Mamdani's allies want to abolish the police, prisons, borders, and capitalism. None of them have said what comes next.
John Aziz
· 6 min read
The Truth Does Not Belong to Eight Billion People
Total disclosure, as Spielberg imagines it, is a beautiful thing to watch. It is also a fantasy.
Yaniv Regev
· 6 min read
How Canada Jumped the Rails on ’Gender-Affirming Care’: A Quillette Investigation
The career arc of Canadian Paediatric Society president Natasha Johnson helps explain why her country has become such an outlier in the treatment of trans-identified children.
Jonathan Kay
· 24 min read
In Bad Faith
The US vice president’s new memoir leaves an unflattering impression of its author.
Graham Daseler
· 12 min read
Letters to the Editor
Replies to Jonathan Kay and Maarten Boudry.
Quillette
· 2 min read
Dangerous Liaisons and the #MeToo Wars
Nearly 250 years on, Laclos’s novel of seduction and treachery continues to scandalise.
Cathy Young
· 21 min read
The Crisis in the Humanities Is Not About Money
Critical theory did not merely politicise scholarship. It made scholarship easier to produce.
Abraham Wyner
· 12 min read
How Brexit Made Britain European
Keir Starmer is just the latest victim of a political reality created by Brexit—one that has, counterintuitively, turned Britain into a European country.
Luke Hallam
· 5 min read
Agency and Adaptation
Humans have not merely been shaped by evolution—we have shaped it too, through the environments we chose to inhabit and the lives we chose to lead.
Tristan S. Rapp
· 8 min read
How Europe Became the World Champion of Heat Deaths
The continent with the lowest number of hot days leads the world in heat mortality. Europe’s self-inflicted aversion to air conditioning betrays a deeper hostility to energy and to progress itself.
Maarten Boudry
· 6 min read
State of Failure
Trump ignored Clausewitz, and disaster ensued.
Brian Stewart
· 10 min read
The Great Canadian Unmarked-Graves Social Panic (2021–2026)
Mia Hughes and Stella O’Malley of the ‘Beyond Gender’ podcast interview Quillette’s Jonathan Kay about the progressive ideological manias spawned during the Justin Trudeau years.
Jonathan Kay
· 35 min read