Ghosts of Electricity
The magisterial incomprehensibility of Bob Dylan’s ‘Visions of Johanna.’
Thomas Larson
· 9 min read
Jimmy Carter: Human Rights Champion
When we examine the entirety of his long life, we see that Jimmy Carter was among the very best of us.
Jamie Paul
· 7 min read
Printing the Legend: A Review of A Complete Unknown
The naysayers are dead wrong about James Mangold’s remarkable new film about Bob Dylan and the Greenwich Village folk scene of the early 1960s.
Ronald Radosh
· 15 min read
Madonnas in the Louvre
A Christmas Message from the Editor-in-Chief
Claire Lehmann
· 5 min read
Podcast #265: Did Oliver Cromwell Really Kill Christmas?
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with David Crowther about seventeenth-century puritan attitudes toward yuletide debauchery—and about his acclaimed History of England podcast.
Quillette
· 15 min read
Green Acceleration
It is time to take environmentalism away from the environmentalists.
Craig DeLancey
· 7 min read
Iran’s Two Ticking Clocks
While the nuclear breakout clock ticks, time may also be expiring on the Ayatollah regime’s grip on the region. The two countdowns are interconnected.
Joseph Nichol
· 8 min read
Moral Permission to Murder
Dostoevsky and the case of Luigi Mangione.
Julia Friedman, David Hawkes
· 6 min read
Quillette Editors’ Choice of 2024
Jamie, Jon, Iona, and Claire share their favourite essays from this year.
Quillette
· 9 min read
Podcast #264: A Theory of Everyone
Iona Italia talks to cultural evolutionary theorist Michael Muthukrishna, author of ‘A Theory of Everyone,’ about the human dual inheritance—part inherited, part taught—and about how energy availability underpins everything.
Quillette, Iona Italia
· 39 min read
From Skies to Screens
Our experience of the world is increasingly mediated by digital technology. This is stripping us of our sense that the physical landscape is infused with meaning.
Robert Huddleston
· 9 min read
Quillette’s Most Read—2024
Our most popular essays of 2024.
Quillette
· 3 min read
Jesus Wasn’t Palestinian
Palestinians’ history, culture, and connection to the land are valid in their own right. We don’t need to appropriate or falsify Jewish history.
John Aziz
· 6 min read