Podcast #221: Understanding Gender Radicalism and White Racial Guilt as Ersatz Religious Movements Indian-Canadian podcast host Kushal Mehra interviews Quillette’s Jonathan Kay about the radicalized beliefs and unsettling rituals that now characterize performative progressive politics in Canada and the rest of the Western world. Quillette 2 Sep 2023 · 1 min read
Killed for a Rainbow Flag: Are Critics of Trans Ideology Responsible? The inflammatory rhetoric that attempts to link hideous crimes like the recent shooting with legitimate concerns is misleading and misguided. T.M. Murray 1 Sep 2023 · 6 min read
Rise of the Goths In the inaugural instalment of ‘The So-Called Dark Ages,’ podcaster Herbert Bushman introduces readers to the Gothic civilization that would eventually help bring down the Roman Empire. Herbert Bushman 31 Aug 2023 · 18 min read
Tolerating Intolerance: The Free Speech Paradox The true power of free expression is revealed even in defenses of speech advocating against it. Angel Eduardo 31 Aug 2023 · 6 min read
When Havel Met Biden Far from being a project of US imperialism, NATO expansion has been a process driven by small and vulnerable countries. Oscar Clarke 29 Aug 2023 · 7 min read
Should We Stay or Should We Go? Humanity and the Final Frontier. Joseph Grosso 28 Aug 2023 · 20 min read
Medications Can Help Keep Alcoholics Sober. Why Are They Being Ignored? Affordable, safe, generic anticonvulsants restore homeostasis to the brains of chronic drinkers, but they are not being promoted. Frank Celia 28 Aug 2023 · 6 min read
On Marriage and Happiness It is easy for a successful writer to advise that career success isn’t that important. Would a failed writer agree? Kevin Mims 26 Aug 2023 · 9 min read
‘New France’ Stumbles Out of the Gate In the tenth instalment of an ongoing Quillette series on the history of Canada, historian Greg Koabel describes the early—and tragically unsuccessful—French efforts to create a permanent colony Greg Koabel 26 Aug 2023 · 20 min read
The Chinese Exodus Fears of a CCP sponsored invasion at the Mexican border are misplaced. People are fleeing China because its economy is in dire straits. Aaron Sarin 24 Aug 2023 · 11 min read
On Political Hatred On everything from Syrian refugees through Brexit and climate change to so-called gender-affirmative medicine, people take a totalizing approach to disagreement: either you agree with me, or you are despicable. Holly Lawford-Smith 24 Aug 2023 · 7 min read
Will Britain Get a New Right Party? If the Conservative Party slumps to defeat in next year’s election, Britain could see the rise of a populist alternative. John Lloyd 23 Aug 2023 · 9 min read
Podcast #220: Talking Science and Substacking in ‘Nash Vegas’ Host Jonathan Kay shares a Nashville breakfast with journalist Christina Buttons and her Quillette-alumnus boyfriend, Colin Wright, author of the popular Substack, Reality’s Last Stand. Quillette 23 Aug 2023 · 1 min read
‘A Dream Deferred’ Revisited Shelby Steele’s masterful second book invites black America to reject redemptive liberalism and the helplessness it demands for a humanistic politics of advancement. Samuel Kronen 22 Aug 2023 · 17 min read