Civility Isn’t Weakness—It’s How We Win A commitment to civility is first and foremost about not becoming what we oppose. Julian Adorney / Angel Eduardo 14 Jul 2023 · 4 min read
Milan Kundera: The Nobel Prize for Literature Winner We Never Had Few writers in our time were more committed to the novel or had more idealism about the heights the form could scale. Robin Ashenden 11 Jul 2023 · 12 min read
A Life in the Fray A new memoir by Martin Peretz, the former owner and editor-in-chief of The New Republic, provides a timely reminder of what American journalism has lost. Jeffrey Herf 10 Jul 2023 · 22 min read
The Ever-Expanding Definition of Trauma In diluting the word's meaning mental health professionals are creating a generation of victims. Alastair Mordey 10 Jul 2023 · 7 min read
The Pseudoscience of Critical Race Theory Critical Race Theory is not a hard science. It’s not even a soft science. Julian Adorney 9 Jul 2023 · 10 min read
Podcast # 218: McMaster’s Imaginary Sex Ring: Uncovering Administrators’ Role in Inflaming a Campus Social Panic Lawrence Krauss, host of The Origins Podcast, interviews Jonathan Kay about his Quillette investigation into the spread of false rape allegations on a Canadian university campus in 2020—and the lessons that can be learned. Quillette 9 Jul 2023 · 1 min read
Come for the Whales. Stay for the Fur In the seventh instalment of an ongoing Quillette series on the history of Canada, Greg Koabel describes how 16th-Century Basque whalers created a thriving industry in the waters off Newfoundland Greg Koabel 8 Jul 2023 · 23 min read
Episode 7: No, Your Child's Feelings Aren't 100% Valid. Claire & Zoe discuss the rise in school refusal and childhood anxiety, and how helicopter parenting might be making it worse. Zoe Booth / Claire Lehmann 7 Jul 2023 · 1 min read
Eight Hundred Years of Russian Despotism: An Interview with Orlando Figes In a new book, the historian traces modern Russian aggression to an apocalyptic mythology rooted deep in the nation’s past. Jonathan Kay 7 Jul 2023 · 10 min read
Humanity Should Split More Atoms The cure for poverty and climate change is nuclear. Lea Booth 7 Jul 2023 · 8 min read
A State of Parental Dysphoria They say it takes a village to raise a child. What happens when that ‘village’ tries to convince your autistic daughter she was ‘born in the wrong body’? Anonymous 6 Jul 2023 · 9 min read
It Doesn’t Make It Alright The SCOTUS decision on affirmative action has ended a hypocritical and incoherent policy. Andrew Hammel 3 Jul 2023 · 15 min read
Podcast #217: Eight Hundred Years of Russian Despotism Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to acclaimed historian Orlando Figes, whose new book traces Russia’s political dysfunction back to the age of Byzantium and the Mongol invasion. This podcast is also available on YouTube. Quillette 3 Jul 2023 · 1 min read
