A Guest Workers’ Son in the IDF
Amit Gish’s biography ‘Cedrick’ provides a vivid depiction of the hardships and injustices faced by Israel's many guest workers.
Benny Morris
· 12 min read
Beautiful Visions
Van Morrison turns eighty.
David Cohen
· 11 min read
It’s All Too Much
The Beatles phenomenon is being mined for more meaning than the people at its centre ever intended to convey.
George Case
· 7 min read
The Next Generation of Wokeness
Wokeness has not retreated—it has simply shapeshifted.
Claire Lehmann
· 10 min read
Setting Man Free from Men
Tiffany Jenkins’ new book is a passionate defence of the value of privacy. The ability to keep some things private is at the heart of human creativity, freedom, and happiness, she argues. Perhaps even this does not go far enough.
Ralph Leonard
· 11 min read
Podcast #300: The Modular Mind
Managing Editor Iona Italia talks to evolutionary psychologist Rob Kurzban about his book 'Why Everyone (Else) Is a Hypocrite: Evolution and the Modular Mind.'
Quillette
· 56 min read
Censoring John and Yoko
A new boxset edits out one of John Lennon’s most controversial songs.
Christian Kriticos
· 13 min read
Even in Failure, Nicola Sturgeon Has Learned Nothing
After championing a failed independence campaign and viciously denigrating women seeking to protect female spaces, Scotland’s ex-first minister insists that she’s the real victim.
Joan Smith
· 16 min read
Naive Protest and Calculated Terror
The Australian security services have confirmed that Iran orchestrated antisemitic attacks in Sydney and Melbourne. This is not the first time leftist causes have been hijacked by Islamists. It is time we confronted this danger.
The Quillette Editorial Board
· 5 min read
The Bronze Age Energy Crisis
How a supply chain failure brought down an ancient civilisation: a tale with disturbing implications for present day societies with their brittle energy logistics.
Joseph Zeller
· 9 min read
The Heterofatalism Trap
Essays about contemporary dating are mistaking cruelty for liberation.
Daniel Lehewych
· 14 min read
A Baseless Attack on Groundbreaking RSV Therapies
A member of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices is spreading misinformation about new antibody treatments that protect children from serious Respiratory Syncytial Virus infections.
Jake Scott
· 9 min read
The Geopolitical Thriller: A Right-Wing Genre
Other plots may attract both right and left-wing authors, but successful geopolitical thrillers are always informed by a conservative view of the world.
Stewart Slater
· 10 min read
How Cancel Culture and Sensitivity Readers Are Shaping the Publishing Industry and Silencing Dissent | Quillette Cetera Ep. 51
As literary gatekeeping intensifies in the age of social media, author and Harvard fellow Adam Szetela joins Zoe to unpack how moral panics, elite ideology, and institutional cowardice are transforming publishing—and why the culture wars are being fought sentence by sentence.
Zoe Booth
· 27 min read
Podcast #299: A Jewish Girl in Revolutionary Iran
Managing Editor Iona Italia talks to Roya Hakakian about her extraordinary memoir, Journey from the Land of No: A Girlhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran.
Roya Hakakian, Quillette
· 41 min read