Aliens...Again! This time, they always say, it could be different. Michael Shermer 8 Jun 2023 · 10 min read
The First Stone Philip Schofield and his critics could both learn a lot from Oscar Wildeâs prison memoir. Andrew Gleeson 8 Jun 2023 · 10 min read
An Egregious Misreading of History In his first book, Philip Ewell employs mistranslations and deceptively edited quotations to defame Viennese-Jewish music theorist Heinrich Schenker. Barry Wiener 7 Jun 2023 · 17 min read
America Doesnât Need Regime Change Patrick Deneen has written a book that reproduces and encourages a form of self-deception thatâs pervasive in the United States on the populist Right. Damon Linker 6 Jun 2023 · 16 min read
Up the St. Lawrence In the fifth instalment of an ongoing Quillette series on the history of Canada, Greg Koabel describes Jacques Cartierâs first encounters with the Miâkmaq and Iroquois. Greg Koabel 6 Jun 2023 · 23 min read
The Real Cost of Cheap Labour Michael Lind's 'Hell to Pay' presents a dire cautionary message to the political establishment. Sohale Mortazavi 4 Jun 2023 · 9 min read
Americaâs Failing Child-Protection System If Governor DeSantis really wants to protect children, he should forget about the death penalty and institute a âone-strike-and-youâre-outâ policy instead. Naomi Schaefer Riley 2 Jun 2023 · 7 min read
The Sardonic Inferno At its best, Amisâs fiction broke open the locked door behind which our culture tries to keep its skeletons hidden. Matt Hanson 2 Jun 2023 · 7 min read
Debating Australia's Vaping Ban: Quillette Cetera Episode 3 Is this further evidence of Australia being a nanny state? Zoe Booth 1 Jun 2023 · 1 min read
The Dualism of Duluoz An eagerly awaited new edition of Gerald Nicosiaâs splendid Kerouac biography provides the definitive portrait of a great artist and a profoundly troubled man. David S. Wills 1 Jun 2023 · 15 min read
Trans Activists Have No Right to Pervert the English Language: Quillette Cetera Episode 2 Shannon Fentiman, Queenslandâs Minister for Health, is sworn in just one week after she told reporters âanyone who identifies as a woman is a womanâ. Zoe Booth / Claire Lehmann 31 May 2023 · 1 min read
Campus Speech and Compromised Safety As universities try desperately to serve two masters (knowledge production; diversity and inclusion), they will increasingly end up sanctioning speech that should be protected. Holly Lawford-Smith 31 May 2023 · 9 min read
The Hammett and Chandler of Gay Detective Fiction How the books of George Baxt and Joseph Hansen changed the genre. Kevin Mims 30 May 2023 · 17 min read
A Declaration of Decadence Mary Jane Rubensteinâs real target in âAstrotopiaâ is not the corporate space race, but the very ideas of humanism and progress. Robert Zubrin 30 May 2023 · 7 min read
Manufacturing Dissent Activists and opinion-formers on the Left and Right have been persuaded that living under anything besides the kind of governance they want means theyâve been cheated. George Case 29 May 2023 · 9 min read
