Podcast #198: Kushal Mehra on the Explosive Growth of YouTube in India Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Indian podcaster and YouTuber Kushal Mehra about the raucous, angry, informative, and often hilarious world of Indian YouTube. Helpful links for episode listeners Quillette / Kushal Mehra 22 Sep 2022 · 1 min read
The U.S. and the Holocaust—A Review Ken Burns’s new six-hour documentary is a work of extraordinary synoptic power and intelligence. Thomas Doherty 21 Sep 2022 · 16 min read
Our Glorious Unhead of State The idea of an Australian republic is attractive to some, but there's a strong case for a humble head of state. Harry Lehmann 21 Sep 2022 · 4 min read
Should the GOP Continue to Embrace Populism? Two Responses Quillette readers Joe Benning and Charles N.W. Keckler give their responses. Quillette 21 Sep 2022 · 8 min read
Quillette Weekly The late Peter Straub, defending truth-seeking in history, and the young Queen Elizabeth. Claire Lehmann 19 Sep 2022 · 3 min read
Lessons from Hannah Arendt on Arresting Our ‘Flight From Reality’ Fascism, communism, and transhumanism all lure us into rejecting the real human condition in favor of ideological constructs. Roger Berkowitz 19 Sep 2022 · 13 min read
Horseshoe Theory Comes to Ukraine Putin’s Western apologists don’t reflect the usual conflict between Left and Right—but rather comprise an example of both poles making common cause against the center. The Quillette Editorial Board 16 Sep 2022 · 7 min read
Child Welfare Is Becoming a Joke The field is mired in risible theory and impenetrable jargon, and increasingly divorced from concern with the welfare of children. Naomi Schaefer Riley 16 Sep 2022 · 6 min read
Math for Future Scientists: Require Statistics, Not Calculus The case for ending calculus requirements for science majors. Robert C. Thornett 15 Sep 2022 · 8 min read
The Young Elizabeth, Seen Through a Child’s Eyes The diaries of Elizabeth’s wartime companion illustrates the special burdens faced by royalty—and Elizabeth’s fitness to bear them Barbara Kay 14 Sep 2022 · 13 min read
Never Apologize for Trying to Tell the Truth Those who repress inconvenient facts or produce fictitious evidence to nourish a politically convenient story are simply not historians. Jeffrey Herf 13 Sep 2022 · 8 min read
Peter Straub, 1943–2022 Farewell to another of the Big Six novelists from the Golden Age of American horror fiction. Kevin Mims 12 Sep 2022 · 13 min read
Quillette Weekly Ukraine takes back territory, and remembering Queen Elizabeth II 1926 - 2022 Claire Lehmann 11 Sep 2022 · 5 min read