Columbus Day: A Fraught Celebration
The world is better than it would have been had we remained isolated from each other—even for Native Americans.
Christopher J. Ferguson
· 7 min read
Quillette Weekly
Standing in solidarity with our friends in Israel.
Claire Lehmann
· 5 min read
The Disaster Artist
Was Liz Truss Britain’s first affirmative-action prime minister?
Laurie Wastell
· 10 min read
Trans Identity and the Right to Exist
This is substance metaphysics for the twenty-first century.
Holly Lawford-Smith
· 10 min read
Man Out of Time
A look back at the career of Avery Corman, who found popular success with ‘Kramer versus Kramer’ before running afoul of feminism.
Kevin Mims
· 19 min read
Towards a Brave New World
Huxley’s dystopian novel was a warning, but we are systematically moving in the direction he indicated.
Tomasz Witkowski
· 10 min read
The Insidious Lie That We Can’t Understand Each Other
And a guide for how to productively push back against the identity trap.
Yascha Mounk
· 16 min read
Howard Men
Prince Jones, Carlton Jones, and the evasions of Ta-Nehisi Coates.
Adam Gussow
· 58 min read
Sculpture and Story
Narrative art has been deeply unfashionable for about a century. But aren’t art and stories inextricable?
Aidan Harte
· 20 min read
Podcast #224: Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans-Identified Children
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to psychotherapist and book author Stella O’Malley, and parent “Josie A.,” about the need to heed parents’ voices before “affirming” a child’s desire for gender-transition therapies.
Quillette
· 1 min read
King of the Goths
In the third instalment of ‘The So-Called Dark Ages,’ podcaster Herbert Bushman describes the rise of Alaric I, whose Gothic armies roamed Greece and the Balkans before marching on Rome itself.
Herbert Bushman
· 20 min read
A Country in the Making
Sean Penn’s surprising new documentary explores “extreme history” in war-torn Ukraine.
Brian Stewart
· 6 min read
Clearing Out My Father’s Office
Reflections on a vibrant scientific career cut short.
Geoffrey C. Kabat
· 15 min read