Troubadour at War Leonard Cohen’s visit to Israel in its darkest hour. Ari David Blaff 7 Jul 2022 · 8 min read
Podcast #192: James Kirchick on ‘Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington’ Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to author James Kirchick about the closeted lives of gay men living and working in America’s capital during the Cold War. Quillette 6 Jul 2022 · 1 min read
Dear Americans: Your Politics Don’t Have to Be This Toxic America’s narrowing two-party system is poisoning the greatest democracy in the world. Stephan Jensen 6 Jul 2022 · 18 min read
Imagining What a (Real) ‘Pro-Life’ Agenda Would Look Like Now is the time for a pro-life approach to be mobilized in defense of all human life, not just zygotes, blastocysts, embryos, and fetuses. The Quillette Editorial Board 5 Jul 2022 · 5 min read
What a Survivalist Reality TV Show Can Teach Us About the Human Condition What makes 'Alone' endlessly fascinating and deeply moving is the mirror it holds up to our broken lives. Jacob Howland 5 Jul 2022 · 9 min read
Male Bodies Don’t Belong in Female Football ‘This nagging feeling that she had an unfair advantage arose every time we hit each other in practice. For me, it was like hitting a brick wall.’ Kate Miechkowski 4 Jul 2022 · 10 min read
The Opposite of Junk A dozen journals left to us by my wife’s Scottish grandmother were destined for the recycling bin—until we took a look at what was inside. Herman Goodden 2 Jul 2022 · 11 min read
Science and Civil Liberties: The Lost ACLU Lecture of Carl Sagan Around 1987, Sagan gave an uncannily prescient lecture to the Illinois state chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union. Steven Pinker / Harvey Silverglate 1 Jul 2022 · 15 min read
We Need to Do Hard Things We’ve lost the ability to navigate our inner worlds, to sit with or navigate anything uncomfortable. We avoid, push away, or lash out because we don’t know how to handle discomfort. Steve Magness 30 Jun 2022 · 12 min read
The Emptiness of Constructivist Teaching In teaching students that all knowledge is constructed through their own interactions, we fail to give them satisfying answers about the world and its meaning. Patricia Rice Doran 29 Jun 2022 · 9 min read
Warp Speed: Inside the Operation that Beat COVID—A Review While the overall U.S. response to the pandemic was tragically deficient, we can learn a lot from the public-private partnership that sped vaccine development. Josh Morrison 28 Jun 2022 · 7 min read
Underneath the Sun Written 70 years ago, Sun and Steel is Mishima’s hero narrative from frail, cave-dwelling, intellectual into a master of his own body. Joe Lombardo 27 Jun 2022 · 11 min read
Myth-making Isn’t the Right Way to ‘Indigenise’ Our Universities Too often, the noble goal of reconciliation is being co-opted by those seeking to invent fake histories and advance politicized narratives. Terry Moore and Carol Pybus 26 Jun 2022 · 16 min read
