The Return of History: Liberal Values and Global Realities
Only when we understand the fragility of liberal democracy will we be properly motivated to defend it.
Zak Schneider
· 9 min read
Populists Before Trump
John Ganz’s lively new book provides a valuable account of the intellectual origins of Trumpism.
Leon Hadar
· 9 min read
Melvin Lasky: Diary of a Cold Warrior
Melvin Lasky was an indefatigable defender of the liberal spirit during the recovery of postwar Germany.
Oscar Clarke
· 13 min read
New York Narcissism
Nikkitha Bakshani’s debut novel ‘Ghost Chilli’ is an ideologically confused work that seems to endorse the racial essentialism it purports to satirise.
Brad Strotten
· 5 min read
Podcast #247: Should Imane Khelif Be Allowed to Box Against Women?
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with biologist Emma Hilton about the controversy surrounding a champion women’s boxer whom critics accuse of being biologically male.
Quillette
· 16 min read
Killing for a Quiet Life
John Krasinski’s dystopian horror trilogy imagines a biblical plague visited on the din of modernity.
Thomas Larson
· 7 min read
Scaling the Heights of Physics: James D. Bjorken 1934–2024
Over the past 60 years, our understanding of the physics of elementary particles has changed radically. James Bjorken played a key role.
Lawrence M. Krauss
· 6 min read
For Competitive US Runners, a ‘Non-Binary’ Identity Has Become a Lucrative Asset
The New York Road Runners club now allows mid-grade men to earn prize money by opting into race categories reserved for athletes claiming to be neither male nor female.
George M. Perry
· 15 min read
Roman Polanski’s ‘Chinatown’ Fifty Years On
Chinatown is noir at its bleakest, yet most stylish.
Ralph Leonard
· 9 min read
Ladies in Leotards
Exploring the implications of beauty standards in women’s gymnastics.
Holly Lawford-Smith
· 5 min read
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
· 11 min read
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
· 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
· 22 min read