Remembering Rumpole
John Mortimer’s fictional barrister was—like his creator—a rogue redeemed by a fierce commitment to the presumption of innocence.
Kevin Mims
· 19 min read
The Rise of the Respectable Conspiracy Theory
COVID, Trump, Brexit—everybody’s had something to break their brains in recent years and some people may never recover.
Christopher J. Snowdon
· 14 min read
Canada’s Altruistic Apartheid
Sanctioned racial essentialism for Aboriginals, mandatory multiculturalism for everyone else.
George Case
· 10 min read
Podcast #210: Keeping Biological Males Out of Women’s Swimming
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to NCAA backstroke champion-turned-activist Marshi Smith about her years in the pool, the Lia Thomas controversy, and Smith’s campaign to protect the integrity of female sport.
Quillette
· 1 min read
The State of ‘Nature’
Mucking around in the messy business of political compromises and calculations puts scientists at a distance from what they really know.
Oliver Traldi
· 7 min read
An Auckland Mob Shut Down a Women’s Rights Activist—And Proved Her Point
The violent treatment of Kellie-Jay Keen betrays the fanaticism and misogyny that has infected progressive gender politics.
The Quillette Editorial Board
· 8 min read
Don’t Let Cancellation Become Banal
Something terrible happens when art can’t reach audiences.
Nina Paley
· 5 min read
Crisis Management
Martin Wolf’s new book is a work of sombre brilliance, but it fails to grapple effectively with the postliberal analysis of what ails liberal democracies.
John Lloyd
· 9 min read
Dismantle DEI Ideology
The disgraceful scenes at Stanford are a flawless embodiment of how diversity doctrine distorts academic life and constrains decision-making.
Heather Mac Donald
· 16 min read
Game, Set, Match
Routinely reviled by contemporary critics as a celebration of misogyny, ‘The Taming of the Shrew’ is among Shakespeare’s most misunderstood plays.
Marilyn Simon
· 12 min read
Corporate Rainbow Marketing: Too Much of a Good Thing
A recent dust-up involving NHL goalie James Reimer demonstrates the folly of pitting Pride PR against the conscience of individual actors.
Allan Stratton
· 7 min read
Professional Sedation
Tenure is allowing humanities scholars to write and teach our profession into well-earned irrelevance.
Robert Zaretsky
· 6 min read
The Masks We Wear; The Faces We Present
A new exhibition at London’s Museum of the Mind explores the personality masks worn by the mentally ill and by the professionals who treat them.
Hannah Gal
· 8 min read
Peer Review as Shadow Cancelling
If you think academics can avoid abuses by keeping out of politics, think again.
Bruce Oliver Newsome
· 10 min read