Quillette Weekly
A "problematic" film about Guantanamo, the legacy of the Freedom Convoy, and the dead-end of Putinism.
Zoe Booth
· 3 min read
Revolt Against the Modern World
Putin is the offspring of a political culture based on insuperable adversity to democracy.
Vladimir Tismaneanu
· 6 min read
Social Panic at Sundance
Meg Smaker’s film about the rehabilitation of former Guantanamo terror suspects was nuanced and sympathetic. But the mob didn’t care.
M. Pollino
· 8 min read
Building a Progressive Tower of Babel
An American Jewish community leader describes how puritanical ideologues are co-opting charitable organizations and activist groups.
David Bernstein
· 14 min read
The Real Star of M*A*S*H
A personal tribute to the overlooked genius of writer W.C. Heinz.
Kevin Mims
· 13 min read
Podcast #199: Andrew Lawton on the Legacy of Canada’s 2022 ‘Freedom Convoy’
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with True North journalist Andrew Lawton about his new Sutherland House book, The Freedom Convoy: The Inside Story of Three Weeks that Shook the World.
Quillette
· 1 min read
Quillette Weekly
Sex and the academy, three paths to despotism, and 200 years of Stendhal
Claire Lehmann
· 4 min read
Three Paths to Despotism
To halt the rise of authoritarianism, liberal democracies must restore hope of economic improvement, particularly among the young.
Joel Kotkin
· 14 min read
Reckon with This
We cannot rethink history to console those it embarrasses.
George Case
· 9 min read
Sex and the Academy
The inclusion of women in higher education is a great achievement for Western liberal societies. How is this changing academic culture?
Cory Clark, Bo Winegard
· 14 min read
Robert Trivers and the Riddle of Evolved Altruism
Survival of the fittest versus compassion and cooperation in evolutionary theory and politics.
Daniel Kriegman
· 24 min read
Svante Pääbo and the Human Story
Not so long ago, he taught us, there were at least three distinct hominin lineages roaming large parts of the planet.
The Quillette Editorial Board
· 4 min read
Infidelity Reconsidered
As a society, we should not presume to judge the relationships of others based on our own moral code.
Limor Gottlieb
· 7 min read
Two Hundred Years of Stendhal
2022 marks the bicentennial of the pseudonym’s transformation from literary dabbler into one of the greatest novelists of the modern age.
Robert Zaretsky
· 11 min read