World War Z
A new book by historian Ian Garner investigates how the war in Ukraine is transforming Russia into a fascist society.
John Lloyd
· 10 min read
Art’s Gender Hustle
Any critic unable to tell great from good, passable from poor, is incompetent. The critic who refuses to do so for ideological reasons is compromised.
Aidan Harte
· 10 min read
A Mixture of Pride and Shame
The left’s refusal to frame the British Empire as anything but a force for pure evil makes for effective culture-war politics. But it also makes for bad history.
Nigel Biggar
· 11 min read
Podcast #213: Meghan Murphy on Sex, Feminism, Sports, Fast Food, The Walking Dead, Mexico, and Some Like It Hot
The Same Drugs podcaster Meghan Murphy and Quillette’s Jonathan Kay explore how COVID, gender bending, and progressive politics have combined to shape a new kind of social tribe.
Quillette
· 1 min read
Samantha Geimer and Emmanuelle Seigner in Conversation
The two women most directly affected by the 1977 Polanski scandal discuss guilt, shame, feminism, #MeToo, the media, and the search for truth and understanding.
Peggy Sastre
· 29 min read
The Unbearable Whiteness of Being
The American Physical Society views the existence of White Privilege in physics as being both scientific and not scientific.
Lawrence M. Krauss
· 5 min read
Fear and Self-Censorship in Higher Education
Unless we can conquer our anxiety and restructure the way we interact, dreams of social unification will remain dead on arrival.
Ash Kahn
· 11 min read
The World of the Iroquois
In the third instalment of an ongoing Quillette series, historian Greg Koabel describes the revolution in agriculture, politics, and war that would transform many Indigenous societies before the arrival of French explorers.
Greg Koabel
· 28 min read
The Auckland Mobbing of Kellie-Jay Keen Was Fuelled by Media-Peddled Misinformation
Why are journalists at Stuff, The Spinoff, and other New Zealand outlets promoting propaganda on behalf of trans-rights activists?
Laura López
· 12 min read
Fictionalizing Māori History in the Name of Gender Ideology
Around the world, trans activists are cynically attempting to drape their faddish colonial theories in the garb of timeless Indigenous wisdom.
Dianne Landy
· 8 min read
Disquiet on the Western Front
Edward Berger’s award-winning film is a deeply flawed adaptation that replaces the book’s complexity and humanity with hyperbolic surrealism and misanthropy.
Alan S. Rome
· 14 min read
What Is a Woman? Many Philosophers Know, But Aren’t Allowed to Say
An April 17 Quillette article about sex and gender by MIT scholar Alex Byrne prompted yet another round of debate and denunciation among his contemporaries.
Thomas Palmer
· 18 min read
ChatGPT, Lobster Gizzards, and Intelligence
Chat knows more, gizzards are more complex, and you’re more intelligent.
Frederick R. Prete
· 10 min read
A Party in Turmoil
Only more pragmatic leadership can renew the SNP and help repair Scotland.
John Lloyd
· 9 min read
Chicago’s Criminal Irresponsibility
Progressive thinking on urban violence is so unrealistic it is dystopian.
Jukka Savolainen
· 8 min read