Germany’s Cozy Catastrophe
The German state has been generous to its beneficiaries—but that largesse is becoming increasingly unsustainable.
Andreas Paul John
· 18 min read
AI and the Wiki Wars
The Wikipedia knowledge monopoly is not ready for the Grokipedia threat.
Russell T. Warne
· 16 min read
Foreign Power, Local Politics
Where local collaboration is absent, foreign intervention imposes enormous costs or simply stalls. Where it exists, intervention can succeed with surprising velocity.
Pablo Policzer
· 10 min read
Podcast #333: The Search for Truth
Managing Editor Iona Italia talks to Michael Shermer, the author of a number of works on critical thinking, epistemology, and ethics, about his new book, 'Truth: What It Is, How to Find It, and Why It Still Matters.'
Quillette, Michael Shermer, Iona Italia
· 1 min read
André Gide versus George Orwell: Two Paths to Truth
More than a century after it was first published, ‘If It Die’—Gide’s shockingly candid account of his childhood and sexual awakening—remains a gripping read.
Jonathan Kay
· 16 min read
A Costly Misconception
Now that glyphosate has become a national-security issue, it’s time to revisit the source of misinformation about this controversial herbicide.
Geoffrey C. Kabat
· 10 min read
Addressing the Academic Skew
Higher education needs intellectual—not political—conservatives.
Jesse Smith
· 6 min read
Letters to the Editor
27 March – 3 April 2026
Quillette
· 7 min read
Podcast #332: The Historical Case for Israel
In a new book, US District Court Judge Roy Altman traces Jews’ indigenous presence in the holy land over the last 3,231 years.
Quillette
· 3 min read
The IOC Is Protecting Female Athletics. Canada’s Secretary of State for Sport Isn’t Happy About It
On his Facebook page, Adam van Koeverden accused the IOC’s defenders of channelling ‘stupid conservative pseudo fantasies.’
Jonathan Kay
· 8 min read
Rohmer at Camelot
Éric Rohmer’s Perceval le Gallois (1978) vividly recreates the imaginative world in which the people of the Middle Ages lived inside their heads.
Charlotte Allen
· 22 min read
Communism’s Obsolescence
The structural case for why collectivist systems fail.
Michael Aaron Cody
· 6 min read
To Meet a Chatbot
An English professor burns the midnight oil talking to Microsoft Copilot about Shakespeare, Dickinson, Hawthorne, and a play he’s been working on—and comes away deeply impressed by its literary insights.
Matthew M. Davis
· 19 min read
Searching for Structure
An autistic writer tries to make sense of his passion for trains, maps, and timetables.
Mathieu Vaillancourt
· 4 min read
Strange Bedfellows
The hard Left has once again allied itself with Islamists in the belief that they will help achieve its goals, hence repeating the mistake the communists made in 1979, in revolutionary Iran.
John Aziz
· 9 min read