Lost in Transition The popularity of Harry Potter reveals a yearning for rites of passage that no longer exist. John Carroll 3 Jul 2023 · 10 min read
Celebrating the Legacy of Canada’s First Prime Minister Far from being an ‘architect of genocide,’ John A. Macdonald championed policies that were humane by 19th-century standards Greg Piasetzki 1 Jul 2023 · 11 min read
Animal Liberation Later Most consumers of meat know that animals matter, but they choose to act as if this isn’t the case. Matt Johnson 30 Jun 2023 · 13 min read
The Instagram Panopticon Exhibitionism, voyeurism, and the cycle of judgement. Ed Smith 29 Jun 2023 · 16 min read
Land of Frost and Scurvy In the sixth instalment of an ongoing Quillette series on the history of Canada, Greg Koabel describes France’s disastrous first attempt to set up a permanent colony in Quebec. Greg Koabel 29 Jun 2023 · 30 min read
The Retreat from Moscow Prigozhin’s coup attempt raises a number of questions to which there are no reassuring answers. John Lloyd 27 Jun 2023 · 8 min read
What Does She See In Him? The strange phenomenon of hybristophiles. Robert King 26 Jun 2023 · 6 min read
What Even Is ‘Trans’? A new book on gender leaves no space for gender non-conformity that is not defined as 'trans' Holly Lawford-Smith 26 Jun 2023 · 7 min read
It's Hip to Be "Trad": Quillette Cetera Episode 6 Is being traditional or conservative now counter-culture? Zoe Booth / Claire Lehmann 26 Jun 2023 · 1 min read
The Sorrow and the Self-Pity Michel Houellebecq’s new memoir reveals a man quick to find fault with others but slow to accept responsibility for his woes. RJ Smith 26 Jun 2023 · 8 min read
Clash of the Titans Politics encourages giant-building not aesthetics. Aidan Harte 24 Jun 2023 · 8 min read
Podcast #216: Learning From an Ex-White Supremacist Iona Italia speaks with Henry Rambow, whose Hate No More podcast tells the story of “Casper,” a one-time leader of the State Prison Skinheads. Quillette 24 Jun 2023 · 1 min read
What Lies Beneath In ‘The Hidden Spring,’ psychoanalyst Mark Solms offers a theory of consciousness and the causal mechanisms from which it arises. Sean Welsh 23 Jun 2023 · 14 min read
After College The coming cultural collapse of American higher education. Peter Wood 21 Jun 2023 · 12 min read
In Canada, Asking for Evidence Now Counts as ‘Denialism’ Sensational 2021 claims that unmarked Indigenous child graves had been discovered in British Columbia now seem doubtful. But saying so may soon be a criminal offence Jonathan Kay 20 Jun 2023 · 10 min read