Remembering Rumpole John Mortimer’s fictional barrister was—like his creator—a rogue redeemed by a fierce commitment to the presumption of innocence. Kevin Mims 1 Apr 2023 · 19 min read
The Rise of the Respectable Conspiracy Theory COVID, Trump, Brexit—everybody’s had something to break their brains in recent years and some people may never recover. Christopher J. Snowdon 31 Mar 2023 · 14 min read
Canada’s Altruistic Apartheid Sanctioned racial essentialism for Aboriginals, mandatory multiculturalism for everyone else. George Case 29 Mar 2023 · 10 min read
Podcast #210: Keeping Biological Males Out of Women’s Swimming Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to NCAA backstroke champion-turned-activist Marshi Smith about her years in the pool, the Lia Thomas controversy, and Smith’s campaign to protect the integrity of female sport. Quillette 29 Mar 2023 · 1 min read
The State of ‘Nature’ Mucking around in the messy business of political compromises and calculations puts scientists at a distance from what they really know. Oliver Traldi 29 Mar 2023 · 7 min read
An Auckland Mob Shut Down a Women’s Rights Activist—And Proved Her Point The violent treatment of Kellie-Jay Keen betrays the fanaticism and misogyny that has infected progressive gender politics. The Quillette Editorial Board 28 Mar 2023 · 8 min read
Don’t Let Cancellation Become Banal Something terrible happens when art can’t reach audiences. Nina Paley 27 Mar 2023 · 5 min read
Crisis Management Martin Wolf’s new book is a work of sombre brilliance, but it fails to grapple effectively with the postliberal analysis of what ails liberal democracies. John Lloyd 27 Mar 2023 · 9 min read
Dismantle DEI Ideology The disgraceful scenes at Stanford are a flawless embodiment of how diversity doctrine distorts academic life and constrains decision-making. Heather Mac Donald 26 Mar 2023 · 16 min read
Game, Set, Match Routinely reviled by contemporary critics as a celebration of misogyny, ‘The Taming of the Shrew’ is among Shakespeare’s most misunderstood plays. Marilyn Simon 24 Mar 2023 · 12 min read
Corporate Rainbow Marketing: Too Much of a Good Thing A recent dust-up involving NHL goalie James Reimer demonstrates the folly of pitting Pride PR against the conscience of individual actors. Allan Stratton 23 Mar 2023 · 7 min read
Professional Sedation Tenure is allowing humanities scholars to write and teach our profession into well-earned irrelevance. Robert Zaretsky 23 Mar 2023 · 6 min read
The Masks We Wear; The Faces We Present A new exhibition at London’s Museum of the Mind explores the personality masks worn by the mentally ill and by the professionals who treat them. Hannah Gal 22 Mar 2023 · 8 min read
Peer Review as Shadow Cancelling If you think academics can avoid abuses by keeping out of politics, think again. Bruce Oliver Newsome 21 Mar 2023 · 10 min read
