The Gentle Wildness of Tasmania
Tasmania has all the majesty of other windswept high-latitude places, but it has always been less barren, more hospitable, more generous in its beauty.
Iona Italia
· 13 min read
Stranded in History
China’s over-reaction to a measured remark about Taiwan made by the Japanese prime minister is an attempt to move the Overton Window.
Aaron Sarin
· 8 min read
Podcast #321: Understanding Journalistic Groupthink
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to Graham Majin about the recent scandal at the BBC, and the need for reporters to prevent the ‘poison of narrative’ from corrupting their craft
Quillette, Graham Majin
· 2 min read
Authorship in an Age of Automation
The quiet erosion of responsibility in an age of machine-generated prose.
Kieran Beville
· 6 min read
Francesca Albanese’s Campaign Against Israel
The UN Rapporteur’s latest report channels a single-minded contempt for the Jewish state.
Brian Stewart
· 7 min read
The Women of January 6th
A new book details the conspiratorial thinking and dark histories of two Capitol rioters.
Claire Lehmann
· 7 min read
Stormclouds Over the Capitol
Mary Clare Jalonick’s oral history of the 6 January riot is an important corrective to the second Trump administration’s vandalism of the historical record.
Ron Capshaw
· 7 min read
The Alliance Labour Needs?
Could a Labour-Liberal Democrat pact save Starmer’s collapsing government?
Renie Anjeh
· 21 min read
Adam Louis-Klein on Why He Founded the Movement Against Antizionism | Quillette Cetera Ep. 60
From settler‑colonial theory to Soviet propaganda, this episode examines how antizionism evolved into a structured anti‑Jewish ideology—and why liberal democracies struggle to name it.
Zoe Booth
· 26 min read
Survival of the Fitting
How a set of unglamorous enzymes quietly solved biology’s biggest problem: how to create and uphold a set of rules that make meaning from molecules.
Praveen Prathapan
· 6 min read
The Uninvited Sermon
Why artists, academics and others should not exploit the presence of a captive audience.
Holly Lawford-Smith
· 8 min read
Guarding the Gates of Our Language
One hundred years after the publication of Fowler’s ‘Dictionary of Modern English Usage,’ it is more important than ever to uphold standards of correct English.
Bruce Gilley
· 10 min read
Atlas No More
It is difficult to overstate just how reactionary Trump’s 2025 National Security Strategy is.
Brian Stewart
· 24 min read
Can the Ayatollahs Fall?
Amid the darkness of a communications blackout, Iranians are fighting for their freedom and the totalitarian theocracy under which they have lived since 1979 seems more threatened than ever before.
Benny Morris
· 9 min read
The Warmth of Collectivism
Zohran Mamdani wants to institute “collectivist” governance, but NYC already has a collectivist problem—a coordinated veto system that blocks development and progress.
John Aziz
· 6 min read