French Nobels Dynamite, literature, and the rise of the engaged intellectual. Robert Zaretsky 30 Oct 2022 · 10 min read
Moral Toddlers Making a Mess Adult toddlers throw tantrums for the same reason as children: they desperately want something and have no idea how to get it. Robert Tracinski 30 Oct 2022 · 6 min read
Wired for Conspiracism The fact that some conspiracy theories do sometimes turn out to be true helps explain why our minds are evolutionarily programmed to catastrophize. Michael Shermer 30 Oct 2022 · 8 min read
Quillette Weekly A win for artistic expression, the problems with longtermism, and a brave citizen challenges the CCP. Zoe Booth 29 Oct 2022 · 3 min read
Benito Mussolini and the Fascist Love Affair with Soccer Embracing a sport that combines nationalism, mass spectacle, and physical refinement, Il Duce set out to make Italy a World Cup champion. Luciano Wernicke 29 Oct 2022 · 8 min read
The Problems with Longtermism The further we look into the future, the less certain we can be about our predictions and plans. Matt Johnson 27 Oct 2022 · 13 min read
FDR and the Holocaust A widely praised new series by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, and Sarah Botstein distorts the historical record to rehabilitate a flawed US president. Ronald Radosh 27 Oct 2022 · 26 min read
A Single Spark In the age of the Internet, can the Sitong Bridge Warrior’s protest make a difference? Aaron Sarin 26 Oct 2022 · 6 min read
Poetic Justice How an octogenarian artist defied curatorial bureaucracy. Julia Friedman 25 Oct 2022 · 9 min read
In the Shadow of the Mushroom Cloud Biden, Putin, and the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. Robin Ashenden 25 Oct 2022 · 15 min read
A Strange and Brutal Country Adam Curtis’s new BBC series provides a unique insight into Russia’s late-twentieth-century collapse. Christopher J. Snowdon 24 Oct 2022 · 7 min read
Podcast #200: Jonathan Kay on the State of Journalism, the Perils of Audience Capture, and the Art of Podcasting For our 200th episode, Quillette founder Claire Lehmann interviews host Jonathan Kay about the evolution of his journalistic career before and after joining Quillette. Quillette 23 Oct 2022 · 1 min read
Quillette Weekly Hyping the energy transition, Scientology and psychiatry, and Munchausen by Internet syndrome Zoe Booth 22 Oct 2022 · 5 min read
