Gay Not Queer Gay identities are based on biological sex; gender identities erase biological sex and replace it with gender. Peter Gajdics 25 Nov 2022 · 11 min read
Murakami On Writing In his new book, Murakami attempts to set the limits of what he wants people to know about him—and that isn’t much. David S. Wills 24 Nov 2022 · 11 min read
Twitter is Not the Town Square Refashioning the private company as a legitimate town square would require more change than we realize. Angel Eduardo 23 Nov 2022 · 6 min read
How New Orleans Became a Hive of JFK Conspiracism Jim Garrison’s theory of the presidential assassination was based on false evidence and homophobic paranoia. Yet many still believe he was right. Michel Jacques Gagné 22 Nov 2022 · 15 min read
Podcast #202: How Dubious Racism Accusations Brought Down the Guggenheim Museum’s Top Curator Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Atlantic writer Helen Lewis about the fate of Nancy Spector, who lost her job at the pinnacle of the Manhattan art world amidst a flurry of unsubstantiated accusations by independent scholar Chaédria LaBouvier. In America, the summer of 2020 was revolutionary: noble goals Quillette 22 Nov 2022 · 1 min read
Startling Intimations of Greatness As we await the release of Woody Allen’s 50th feature film, his biographer looks back on the career of one of America’s great cinematic artists. David Evanier 21 Nov 2022 · 26 min read
Quillette Weekly Homelessness and deinstitutionalization, a skewed school census, and the months the Earth stood still. Claire Lehmann 20 Nov 2022 · 4 min read
The Months the Earth Stood Still Did humanity defeat a potentially devastating plague with relatively modest losses, or did the greater devastation come from the victory itself? George Case 19 Nov 2022 · 9 min read
Will It Be Different This Time? It is starting to look like a question of when, not if, the Islamic Republic of Iran will fall. Brian Stewart 19 Nov 2022 · 9 min read
The Erasure of Women From Online Pregnancy Literature After lugging around two fetuses that won’t stop kicking my bladder, I have no patience left for gender activists who pretend that men can give birth. Elizabeth Emery 18 Nov 2022 · 10 min read
Religious Permanence The human brain evolved to be religious, but religion also evolved to appeal to the human brain. Bo Winegard 18 Nov 2022 · 10 min read
Extraordinary Destiny In a newly published book, a motivational speaker who works with female prisoners reflects on the life lessons she’s learned behind bars. Phyllis Taylor 17 Nov 2022 · 10 min read
Affirming Your Inner Fursona For some, gender transition is just a way station en route to more exotic (and furrier) trans-species identities. Steven Tucker 16 Nov 2022 · 11 min read
