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
Campus Speech and Compromised Safety
As universities try desperately to serve two masters (knowledge production; diversity and inclusion), they will increasingly end up sanctioning speech that should be protected.
Holly Lawford-Smith
· 9 min read
The Hammett and Chandler of Gay Detective Fiction
How the books of George Baxt and Joseph Hansen changed the genre.
Kevin Mims
· 17 min read
A Declaration of Decadence
Mary Jane Rubenstein’s real target in “Astrotopia” is not the corporate space race, but the very ideas of humanism and progress.
Robert Zubrin
· 7 min read
Manufacturing Dissent
Activists and opinion-formers on the Left and Right have been persuaded that living under anything besides the kind of governance they want means they’ve been cheated.
George Case
· 9 min read
Left is Not Woke: An Interview with Susan Neiman
In undermining universalism and moral progress, "wokeism" is inherently reactionary.
Maarten Boudry
· 14 min read
Running Amok
An empirical analysis of spree killings finds that two distinct patterns emerge.
Robert King
· 8 min read
The New Right’s Political Insurgency
Liberals have been slow to understand the frustrations fuelling the rise of the New Right.
John Lloyd
· 8 min read
Campus Puritans Come for an Astronomer—And His Byline
By demanding that morality tests be imposed on scientific journal authorship, Geoff Marcy’s critics are creating a dangerous precedent.
Lawrence M. Krauss
· 13 min read
Victimhood Ideology and Feminism: Quillette Cetera Episode 1
Quillette's candid new podcast with a feminine voice.
Zoe Booth, Claire Lehmann
· 2 min read
The Wrongful Exoneration of Adnan Syed Part II: The Legal and Media Circus
Adnan Syed would never have been released had ‘Serial’ not been made. Advocacy journalism must be treated with caution.
Andrew Hammel
· 53 min read
The Wrongful Exoneration of Adnan Syed Part I: A Straightforward Murder Case
A serious reexamination of this case must begin by setting out the evidence that led the jury to convict.
Andrew Hammel
· 45 min read
Belafonte Reappraised
Neither hagiographers nor haters of the late musician, actor, and activist have managed to get him right.
Ronald Radosh
· 18 min read