Lists, Damn Lists, and Critical Correctness
Love them or hate them, lists are now firmly established—along with cats and porn—among the apex predators of the modern internet.
Dave Thompson
· 12 min read
Why Epstein, But Not Jackson?
We judge sex crimes according to archetype, not evidence.
Claire Lehmann
· 5 min read
Letters to the Editor
Mark Entwistle replies to Shalom Lappin.
Quillette
· 3 min read
The Enhanced Games: How to Take Drugs and Still Lose to High Schoolers
It's hard to convey to a non-track person how slow this meet was. Even for people past their prime.
Steve Magness
· 6 min read
Manosfear
Theroux’s documentary on the Manosphere tells half the story—the loudly accessible, politically convenient half.
Robert King
· 17 min read
Anti-Zionism as Redemptive Racism
Contemporary anti-Zionism encodes a totalising worldview that blends the tributaries of Nazi, communist, and Islamist anti-Zionism into a single stream.
Shalom Lappin
· 15 min read
Treacherous Men
A fabulous new history of the Cambridge Five by Antonia Senior provides the definitive account of Britain’s most famous traitors.
Ronald Radosh
· 12 min read
Never Neverland
The new Michael Jackson biopic and the campaign to whitewash the King of Pop’s reputation.
Andrew Hammel
· 32 min read
Homeric Heresies
Outrage over a black Helen of Troy misunderstands the long Western tradition of radically reinventing classical myths.
Cathy Young
· 11 min read
Australia's Broken Justice System: Andrew Bushnell | Quillette Cetera Ep. 64
From the murder of a five-year-old Aboriginal girl to Melbourne's tobacco wars, Andrew Bushnell joins Zoe Sankey to examine the human cost of Australia's broken justice system.
Zoe Sankey, Andrew Bushnell
· 31 min read
Canada’s Newspaper of Record Asks: ‘What If They Ultimately Find Nothing?’
Five years after it helped promote a nationwide social panic over ‘unmarked graves,’ the Globe & Mail admits those graves might not actually exist—while also suggesting that it doesn’t really matter anyway.
Jonathan Kay
· 10 min read
Kingdom Come
A new book about Stephen King’s early novels will only appeal to hardcore fans, but its very existence is a reminder of its subject’s incalculable cultural impact.
Kevin Mims
· 26 min read
Letters to the Editor
May 23 2026
Quillette
· 1 min read