The Ceasefire Deal As Israel and Hamas begin to implement the ceasefire deal, both the immediate and the longer term future remain unclear. Benny Morris 20 Jan 2025 · 12 min read
Podcast #268: The Power of Nuclear Quillette podcast host Iona Italia talks to Dutch writer Marco Visscher, author of ‘The Power of Nuclear: The Rise, Fall and Return of Our Mightiest Energy Source.’ Quillette 18 Jan 2025 · 26 min read
Fighting Fire with Fire We know how to prevent catastrophic bushfires. For more than half a century, Western Australia has been reducing forest fuel loads through a systematic program of ‘prescribed burns.’ Brad Barr 16 Jan 2025 · 9 min read
Shakespeare Versus the Girlboss Jodi Picoult’s latest novel is a ham-fisted expression of cultural rage, embodying the most anodyne values of corporate human-resources departments. Marilyn Simon 16 Jan 2025 · 14 min read
Jihadist at a Crossroads Syria’s new leader will have to balance his Islamist beliefs with the more pressing tasks of state-building and economic development. Sean Welsh 16 Jan 2025 · 11 min read
Agitprop at the AHA If the American Historical Association formally adopts a resolution accusing Israel of “scholasticide,” it could destroy the organisation’s reputation for serious scholarship. Jeffrey Herf 15 Jan 2025 · 15 min read
Syrian Torture, Then and Now The atrocities committed by the Assad regime were no secret—but they were met with Western inaction. Susie Linfield 14 Jan 2025 · 7 min read
Memorial Daze Notions of injury or exclusion are often based on shifting cultural sensitivities and political pressures, rather than on any permanent, universal measure of good and evil. George Case 14 Jan 2025 · 7 min read
The Tyranny of Fragility How Alexis de Tocqueville foretold the rise of victimhood culture. Samuel Veissière 13 Jan 2025 · 8 min read
Three Hard Truths About California’s Fire Crisis Climate change makes fires more dangerous. Government competence matters. And preventing catastrophic fires requires expensive, unpopular measures. Claire Lehmann 12 Jan 2025 · 7 min read
Podcast #267: The Tragedy of California’s Wildfires Jonathan Kay speaks with University of Southern California scholar William Deverell about what he calls the ‘new fire regime in the American West.’ Quillette 12 Jan 2025 · 13 min read
A Perfectly Charming Chinese Girl Against long odds and in the face of exclusionary casting, Anna May Wong bequeathed us an extraordinary cinematic legacy. Thomas Doherty 9 Jan 2025 · 11 min read
The (First) Conquest of Quebec In the 24th instalment of ‘Nations of Canada,’ Greg Koabel describes how British adventurers briefly seized Quebec and Acadia following the Anglo-French War of 1627–29. Greg Koabel 8 Jan 2025 · 29 min read
