The Threat of Decivilisation
During a recent dinner at the Élysée Palace, the French president was confronted with the possibility that France is slipping into murderous anarchy.
John Lloyd
· 9 min read
Gender’s Truth-Distortion Field
Across the English-speaking world, the discussion of trans rights is governed by taboos, sacred myths, and, in some cases, outright lies.
Sean Masters, Raimund Hume
· 10 min read
Episode 4: Is Quillette Far-Right?
Claire and Zoe respond to fresh claims that we are a dangerous organisation.
Zoe Booth
· 1 min read
Podcast #215: Who is the Diversity, Inclusion & Equity Industry Actually Helping?
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to Atlantic writer Conor Friedersdorf about his recent article, The DEI Industry Needs to Check Its Privilege.
Quillette
· 1 min read
Aliens...Again!
This time, they always say, it could be different.
Michael Shermer
· 10 min read
The First Stone
Philip Schofield and his critics could both learn a lot from Oscar Wilde’s prison memoir.
Andrew Gleeson
· 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
· 17 min read
America Doesn’t Need Regime Change
Patrick Deneen has written a book that reproduces and encourages a form of self-deception that’s pervasive in the United States on the populist Right.
Damon Linker
· 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 Cartier’s first encounters with the Mi’kmaq and Iroquois.
Greg Koabel
· 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
· 9 min read
America’s Failing Child-Protection System
If Governor DeSantis really wants to protect children, he should forget about the death penalty and institute a “one-strike-and-you’re-out” policy instead.
Naomi Schaefer Riley
· 7 min read
The Sardonic Inferno
At its best, Amis’s fiction broke open the locked door behind which our culture tries to keep its skeletons hidden.
Matt Hanson
· 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 min read
The Dualism of Duluoz
An eagerly awaited new edition of Gerald Nicosia’s splendid Kerouac biography provides the definitive portrait of a great artist and a profoundly troubled man.
David S. Wills
· 15 min read
Trans Activists Have No Right to Pervert the English Language: Quillette Cetera Episode 2
Shannon Fentiman, Queensland’s Minister for Health, is sworn in just one week after she told reporters “anyone who identifies as a woman is a woman”.
Zoe Booth, Claire Lehmann
· 1 min read