The Sorrow and the Self-Pity
Michel Houellebecq’s new memoir reveals a man quick to find fault with others but slow to accept responsibility for his woes.
RJ Smith
· 8 min read
Clash of the Titans
Politics encourages giant-building not aesthetics.
Aidan Harte
· 8 min read
Podcast #216: Learning From an Ex-White Supremacist
Iona Italia speaks with Henry Rambow, whose Hate No More podcast tells the story of “Casper,” a one-time leader of the State Prison Skinheads.
Quillette
· 1 min read
What Lies Beneath
In ‘The Hidden Spring,’ psychoanalyst Mark Solms offers a theory of consciousness and the causal mechanisms from which it arises.
Sean Welsh
· 14 min read
After College
The coming cultural collapse of American higher education.
Peter Wood
· 12 min read
In Canada, Asking for Evidence Now Counts as ‘Denialism’
Sensational 2021 claims that unmarked Indigenous child graves had been discovered in British Columbia now seem doubtful. But saying so may soon be a criminal offence
Jonathan Kay
· 10 min read
Chaucer’s Bawdy Broad
More than six centuries after The Canterbury Tales first appeared, the Wife of Bath still has lessons to teach about love, sex, marriage, and—yes—feminism
Charlotte Allen
· 24 min read
‘The Princess Bride’ at 50
A look back at William Goldman’s bonkers metafictional novel ‘The Princess Bride,’ which later became a much-loved family film.
Kevin Mims
· 18 min read
If The Findings Detract, You Must Retract
How dissent is policed in social science.
Jukka Savolainen
· 10 min read
In Praise of Gender Crits
“Gender-critical” is a jargonny way of describing the ordinary views held by the vast majority of the planet’s population.
The Quillette Editorial Board
· 9 min read
Should the DEI Industry ‘Check Its Privilege’? An Interview with Conor Friedersdorf of The Atlantic
In a May 31st article, “The DEI Industry Needs to Check Its Privilege,” Friedersdorf argued that many Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs likely do little to further the cause of social justice, even as they help enrich the DEI experts who champion them.
Jonathan Kay
· 14 min read
McMaster’s Imaginary Sex Ring
In 2020, a Canadian university tore up its psychology department in search of a non-existent network of sexual predators. Documents obtained by Quillette reveal how administrators allowed it to happen.
Jonathan Kay
· 51 min read
The Brittany Higgins Scandal: Quillette Cetera Episode 5
Some truths about sexual assault.
Zoe Booth, Claire Lehmann
· 1 min read
The Reverse Opium War
Beijing looks the other way, and the deadly medicine sails West just as its natural ancestor once sailed East.
Aaron Sarin
· 14 min read