Useless UNIFIL Were Hezbollah to disappear tomorrow, the world would be a safer place. Instead, thanks to UNIFIL’s failure to fulfil its mandate, the Middle East is on the precipice of a war of unprecedented destruction. Josh Feldman 3 Nov 2024 · 8 min read
Podcast #257: How Universities Should Regulate Contentious Speech Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with prolific Harvard University legal scholar Cass Sunstein about his new book, Campus Free Speech: A Pocket Guide. Quillette 2 Nov 2024 · 10 min read
College Volleyball’s Spartan Meltdown In a scathing Title IX Complaint obtained by Quillette, a San José State University women’s volleyball coach explains how her school’s aggressively enforced transgender-inclusion policy created a toxic environment for female athletes. Jonathan Kay 1 Nov 2024 · 23 min read
All Hail the New Flesh For all its decorative asides about predatory male sexuality, ‘The Substance’ is most coherently understood as a morality tale about the folly of feminist illusions. Charlotte Allen 1 Nov 2024 · 11 min read
Why Is Most Journalism About IQ So Bad? It is easy to create a negative image of intelligence research because most people know very little about the topic. But distorting intelligence research does a disservice to the field’s hard-working scientists and the general public. Russell T. Warne 30 Oct 2024 · 13 min read
Horrible Hasbara: Israel’s Poor PR Efforts The pro-Palestinian camp have spent more than 75 years perfecting their 30-second elevator pitch. It’s time for Israel to catch up. Aurele Tobelem 30 Oct 2024 · 15 min read
Racial Disparities and Child Protection The politicisation of medicine has had terrible unintended consequences. Naomi Schaefer Riley 30 Oct 2024 · 8 min read
Misinformation: A Flawed Concept “Believe those who seek the truth,” André Gide once wrote, “doubt those who find it.” The same can be said of falsehoods. Angel Eduardo / Adam Goldstein 28 Oct 2024 · 6 min read
The Shifting Sands of War A detailed look at the past year of war between Israel and its adversaries, as the battleground has shifted from Gaza to Lebanon and now to Iran. Benny Morris 28 Oct 2024 · 26 min read
DEI Without the Dogma A business-communications coach reflects on the connections between her college-era Marxist beliefs and the identity-based fixations that have come to dominate her industry. Evelina Silveira 28 Oct 2024 · 13 min read
Sonny Side Up Al Pacino’s personal life has been a bit of a train wreck, but his new memoir leaves no doubt that acting has been the most important thing in his life. Kevin Mims 28 Oct 2024 · 21 min read
Reading Nietzsche in Amsterdam Lale Gül’s autobiographical novel about a young Muslim woman living in the Netherlands has led to death threats and ostracism. But it is a work of admirable intelligence and courage. Brad Strotten 25 Oct 2024 · 7 min read
Males in the Tails? Greater male variability, biology, and bell curves. Theodore P. Hill 25 Oct 2024 · 18 min read
Podcast #256: Unreliable Sources Iona Italia talks to Jack Despain Zhou (aka Tracing Woodgrains) about the decline of standards at Wikipedia as a result of the obsessive efforts of ideologically motivated editors. Quillette 24 Oct 2024 · 49 min read