The Rise and Fall of Graham Platner
Is this the far left's #MeToo moment?
Cathy Young
· 16 min read
Reshaping the Middle East
Reconsidering Israel’s wars in 1956, 1982, and 2026.
Shany Mor
· 21 min read
Strong Opinions
When critics start issuing dictates, they end up excluding broad swathes of art and culture as well as whole areas of human experience.
Stephen Akey
· 10 min read
Generation Trapped: Why Young Australians Have Given Up Hope
Parnell Palme McGuinness on the six distinct "tribes" of young Australians she uncovered—and why personal agency, not income, is the strongest predictor of happiness.
Claire Lehmann
· 25 min read
Charlie Is My Darling
Claudia Verhoeven’s new book is a valuable contribution to the crowded library of Mansonia.
George Case
· 9 min read
Why Soccer Is Boring
How the beautiful game convinced the world that boredom is sophistication.
Robert Lynch
· 10 min read
First Nations Chief, Podcast Pundit, Indigenous Gadfly
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Aaron Pete, Chief of the Chawathil First Nation, about reserve governance, residential schools, ‘unmarked graves,’ and intra-Indigenous politics.
Quillette
· 33 min read
How a Hidden Songbook Survived the Holocaust
The extraordinary story of how a fragile Holocaust songbook, hidden for decades in a Sydney cupboard, came back to the world.
Joseph Toltz, Anna Boucher
· 14 min read
The Long Road to Medical ‘Miracles’
How decades of invisible science produced two cancer breakthroughs.
Henry I. Miller
· 9 min read
What an Eighth Grader Taught Me About Status
Comparing yourself to others locks you into a contest you can never win and makes other people’s wins feel like your defeats.
Robert Lynch
· 9 min read
The Menace of a Respectable Hatred
What remains of a person, an institution, or a civilisation that dishonours itself when Jews and Israel become the targets of hatred and violence?
Yuki Zeman
· 16 min read
The Mask That Made Me
Thirty years as a high-functioning neurodivergent project manager.
Jason Sylvester
· 7 min read
Why Australia's New Capital Gains Tax Is the Best Tax Policy for Crushing the Economy
Fund manager Derek Francis tells Claire Lehmann that Treasury's modelling of Australia's new capital gains tax contains a basic error — one that could push tax rates on shares as high as 70 percent.
Claire Lehmann
· 26 min read