War Stories
Yonah Jeremy Bob and Elliot Kaufman’s account of the 7 October massacre and its aftermath is a triumph of dogged reporting and shrewd analysis.
Michael M. Rosen
· 8 min read
Life in The Grim Old Days
Chelsea Follett's new history shows how wretched life was before the industrial revolution, but our escape from it began long before the steam engine.
Robert Zubrin
· 9 min read
In Defence of Academic Standards
To rediscover the university’s true purpose, we must return to our core practice of making distinctions.
Oliver Traldi
· 8 min read
Letters to the Editor
Rabbi Daniel Lapin responds to Robert Lynch's essay on masturbation.
Quillette
· 2 min read
Danielle Haas on How Activism Took Over Human Rights | Quillette Cetera Episode 73
Former Human Rights Watch senior editor Danielle Haas on how NGO reports get made, what happens to staff who dissent, and why she wants outside oversight.
Zoe Sankey, Danielle Haas
· 29 min read
On Trauma-ism
Catherine Liu’s new book makes some valuable points, but it fundamentally misunderstands the trauma culture it critiques.
Marilyn Simon
· 11 min read
Sceptic vs. ‘Doomer’: How Scared Should We Be of Rogue AI?
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay interviews AI expert Gary Marcus about the possibility that a rogue artificial intelligence will turn us all into paper clips.
Quillette
· 34 min read
Spells that Sell
John Updike, Alice Hoffman, and the golden age of “witch lit.”
Kevin Mims
· 11 min read
Canada’s Unmarked-Graves Social Panic (2021–26): A Primer for Foreign Scholars
In a recent speech to American academics, a Quillette editor explained how Canadians convinced themselves that 215 child corpses had been discovered in an old apple orchard.
Jonathan Kay
· 32 min read
Other People's Children
Nikole Hannah-Jones put racial solidarity ahead of her daughter’s education. Her daughter—and plenty of black parents—saw the mistake more clearly than she did.
Corey Walker
· 8 min read
Lesbian Fragility, Then and Now
The tragicomic obsession with disability and disease on display at the Last Ditch bar isn’t a new phenomenon. It’s been part of militant lesbian culture since the Cold War.
Julie Bindel
· 11 min read
Trauma and Terror
If you’re not already familiar with the casus belli that ignited the Gaza war, watching the fifth season of ‘Fauda’ will be good for you, but it will also be bad for you.
Michael J. Totten
· 11 min read
An Open Letter to Scott Alexander
The dangers of AI are real, but doomerism may be counterproductive.
Steven Pinker
· 8 min read
From Atmosphere to Empire
U2 reconsidered at fifty.
David Cohen
· 12 min read