Institutional Self-Renunciation Is Making Us Lonely
Human identity is inextricably tied to group affiliation. So what happens when all the groups we know and love become ‘problematic’?
N. Russell
· 5 min read
Quillette Weekly
Rushdie's moral heroism and a walkout at a free speech event.
Claire Lehmann
· 4 min read
Rushdie’s Moral Heroism
The attempt on the great writer’s life illustrates the dedication with which fanatics pursue the objects of their hatred.
The Quillette Editorial Board
· 7 min read
The Roads Not Taken
A new book by Orlando Figes explores the role of Russian history in the Ukranian war.
John Lloyd
· 10 min read
Podcast # 195: Meet the 80-Year-Old Feminist Who Got Banned From the YMCA for Protesting Male Bodies in the Women’s Locker Room
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks to Port Townsend, WA-area swimmer Julie Jaman, the octogenarian whose efforts to keep biological men out of a changing area reserved for girls and women led to accusations of transphobia, a visit with the police, multiple town-council debates, and an ongoing Twitter campaign called
Quillette
· 1 min read
False Accusations and Ideological Bias
Amnesty International, Ukraine, and the Illusion of NGO Fact-Finding Expertise.
Gerald M. Steinberg
· 13 min read
Apple’s Depressing Denouement
A review of ‘After Steve: How Apple Became a Trillion-Dollar Company and Lost Its Soul,’ by Tripp Mickle (Morrow/HarperCollins, 2022).
Jonathan Kay
· 9 min read
Liberal When We Can; Conservative When We Must
Don’t expect the politics of tomorrow to be any less turbulent than the politics of today.
Stephen Martin Fritz and Denise Morel
· 11 min read
Walkout at Milton Academy
When high-school students can’t tolerate hearing the name of a book title, we know there’s a problem in education.
Randall Kennedy and Harvey Silverglate
· 4 min read
Quillette Weekly
Terry Glavin on the unmarked-graves saga, Tavistock's demise, and Chappelle's triumph.
Zoe Booth
· 3 min read
The Limits of Radical Protest
Those fighting for social change today would do well to heed Bayard Rustin’s advice about how to build sustainable and effective political movements.
Matt Johnson
· 12 min read
Shuttering the Tavistock
The closure of Britain’s scandal-plagued youth gender clinic could help protect distressed children from unnecessary medicalisation.
Bernard Lane
· 10 min read
Death From Above
Ayman al-Zawahiri’s reign of pious terror is now over.
Brian Stewart
· 6 min read
Podcast # 194: Canada’s Unmarked-Graves Social Panic: How Did the Media Get This Blockbuster Story So Wrong?
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to National Post reporter (and popular Substack author) Terry Glavin about the blockbuster 2021 claim that hundreds of murdered Indigenous children had been found in unmarked graves, the process by which that story began to unravel in the year that followed, and what the
Quillette
· 1 min read
Dave Chappelle vs. the New Puritans
As the legendary comedian chalks up prestigious awards and plays to packed houses, his progressive critics look increasingly ridiculous.
Allan Stratton
· 9 min read