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Podcast #300: The Modular Mind
· 56 min read
PODCAST #298: What Does It Take to Develop a ‘Scrabble-Shaped Brain’?
· 30 min read
Podcast #297 Parsi: A Fiercely Contested Identity
· 35 min read

Jonathan Kay

An Uproar Over Facts
· 14 min read
Podcast #292: Social Work Without Stereotypes
· 21 min read
Class Struggle Meets Game Night
· 9 min read

Claire Lehmann

The Next Generation of Wokeness
· 10 min read
A Heterodox Education
· 22 min read
When Women Are Radicalised
· 8 min read

Zoe Booth

How Cancel Culture and Sensitivity Readers Are Shaping the Publishing Industry and Silencing Dissent | Quillette Cetera Ep. 51
· 27 min read
Can We Regulate Online Hate Without Killing Free Speech? With Dr Andre Oboler | Quillette Cetera Ep. 50
· 31 min read
Masculinity and Political Extremism with Sociologist Josh Roose | Quillette Cetera Ep. 49
· 12 min read

John Lloyd

From Welfare to Warfare
· 7 min read
A Disunited Kingdom
· 6 min read
Out with the Old...
· 7 min read

Kevin Mims

‘Bright Lights, Big City’ at Forty
· 16 min read
Sonny Side Up
· 21 min read
America’s Last Great Political Novel
· 22 min read

Brian Stewart

The Deformist Tendency
· 8 min read
American Power in an Embattled World Order
· 27 min read
Deprograming Patriotism
· 11 min read

Aaron Sarin

Getting China Right
· 11 min read
In Defence of Jiang Yurong
· 9 min read
The Rare Earth Wars
· 7 min read

Matt Johnson

Trump and the Necessity of Democratic Struggle
· 15 min read
“Social Trust Has Really Eroded”
· 29 min read
After Liberal Internationalism
· 21 min read

Benny Morris

A Guest Workers’ Son in the IDF
· 12 min read
Half-Time for Hamas
· 17 min read
The Most Corrupt Government in the West
· 10 min read

Joel Kotkin

The Changing Politics of Oligarchy
· 10 min read
The Return of Realpolitik
· 10 min read
The Puzzle of Generational Politics
· 11 min read

Graham Verdon

Headline Rhymes
· 1 min read
Headline Rhymes
· 1 min read
Headline Rhymes
· 1 min read

Lawrence M. Krauss

Trump’s War on Science
· 5 min read
The Mars Vanity Project
· 10 min read
Too Many Moons
· 6 min read

Holly Lawford-Smith

The Best Kind of Political Art
· 7 min read
Identity and Conflicts of Interest
· 10 min read
Corporate Cancellations
· 9 min read

Sumantra Maitra

“War Is the Least Conservative Undertaking”—An Interview with Dr William Ruger
· 7 min read
Timely Return to Battle for a Veteran of the Culture Wars
· 7 min read
'If I Want to Hold Seminars on the Topic of Empire, I Will Do So Privately': An Interview with Nigel Biggar
· 5 min read

Cathy Young

One Hundred Days of Ineptitude
· 13 min read
The MAGA War on Ukraine
· 13 min read
Election Reflections
· 15 min read

Greg Koabel

Godly Missionaries—or Evil Sorcerers?
· 25 min read
Wendake or Bust
· 20 min read
New France 2.0
· 26 min read

Marilyn Simon

Sexual Perversity in Ontario
· 12 min read
Scandalous Monogamy and Faithful Infidelity
· 12 min read
Shakespeare Versus the Girlboss
· 14 min read

Ben Sixsmith

Shawls, Books, and Bombs
· 8 min read
How Trump Missed His, and America's, Best Chance on Coronavirus
· 6 min read
The Decadent Society—A Review
· 7 min read

Brian Boutwell

A Risk Not Worth Taking: An Open Letter to My Colleagues in The Academy
· 4 min read
Is It Ever Better Not to Know?
· 7 min read
Epigenetics Has Become Dangerously Fashionable
· 6 min read

Matt McManus

The Frankfurt School and the Allure of Submission
· 9 min read
The Argument for Equality and Fairness
· 11 min read
Human Dignity and Human Rights
· 8 min read

George Case

It’s All Too Much
· 7 min read
Disco Inferno
· 10 min read
Who Are the Snowflakes Now?
· 8 min read

Allan Stratton

Another Tiresome Trans-Activist Power Play
· 9 min read
Greta Thunberg’s Fifteen Minutes
· 10 min read
A Joke Too Far?
· 11 min read

Bo Winegard

Conservatism in an Era Of Populist Revolt
· 11 min read
Religious Permanence
· 10 min read
Misunderstanding Equality
· 11 min read

Charlotte Allen

The Mediocrity Feedback Loop
· 15 min read
It’s No Longer 1937...
· 18 min read
All Men Behaving Badly
· 23 min read

Toby Young

The Case Against Lockdown: A Reply to Christopher Snowdon
· 8 min read
PODCAST 90: John Lloyd on the Geopolitical Fall-Out From the Coronavirus Crisis
· 1 min read
Britain's Labour Party Got Woke—And Now It's Broke
· 11 min read

Uri Harris

On the IDW: A Response to Eric Weinstein
· 7 min read
Caricaturing the Left Doesn’t Benefit the Intellectual Dark Web
· 9 min read
Is the 'Intellectual Dark Web' Politically Diverse?
· 8 min read

Samuel Kronen

Joys Known Only to the Insane
· 11 min read
Slim Shady’s Blues
· 10 min read
The Psychologisation Pandemic
· 18 min read

Sean Welsh

Stealing Australia and Buying New Zealand
· 16 min read
Truth Telling and Colonial History
· 16 min read
Australia Day Dreaming
· 11 min read

Jonathan Anomaly

Effective vs. Pathological Altruism
· 5 min read
What’s Wrong with the American Academy
· 6 min read
Libel of Jordan Peterson by the Forward—A Story of Journalistic Failure
· 4 min read

The Quillette Editorial Board

Naive Protest and Calculated Terror
· 5 min read
Against Palestinian Statehood
· 6 min read
Misinformation Is Bad. Prohibiting It Is Worse
· 9 min read

Pamela Paresky

How to Build a Better Society—One School at a Time
· 29 min read
Blasphemy, Censorship, and the Future of Free Expression in Britain
· 16 min read
Israel’s Fight for Survival with Gadi Taub
· 18 min read

Steve Salerno

Purity, Profit, and Politics
· 22 min read
The Worst Racial Slur, In Context
· 15 min read
The Baby Gate. A Memoir.
· 23 min read

Coleman Hughes

Do COVID-19 Racial Disparities Matter?
· 5 min read
Reflections on Intersectionality
· 7 min read
Why Do Progressives Hate Gentrification?
· 7 min read

Jamie Palmer

The Lab-Leak Illusion
· 53 min read
Does Christine Brown Deserve to Burn in Hell?
· 12 min read
Romance and Retribution
· 34 min read

Michael Shermer

An Unscientific American
· 12 min read
Aliens...Again!
· 10 min read
Left or Right, Politicians Shouldn’t Be Telling Academics What They’re Allowed to Teach
· 7 min read

Jeffrey Tayler

'Luciferina': An Interview with Amanda Knox
· 8 min read
Resolving the Venezuela Crisis: Is There a Case for Outside Military Intervention?
· 8 min read
Speaking Out About Islam – Lubna Ahmed, Rebel With a Cause
· 13 min read

John Aziz

Mahmood Mamdani Wants to Dismantle America
· 7 min read
Glamourising Violence at Glastonbury
· 8 min read
Gentrifying the Intifada
· 8 min read

Michael Shellenberger

Madness for Decivilization
· 14 min read
I Was Invited to Testify on Energy Policy. Then Democrats Didn't Let Me Speak
· 6 min read
Why I Believe Climate Change Is Not the End of the World
· 37 min read

Andy Ngo

Denmark's Blaspheming Mother
· 9 min read
A Night Out with a Muslim and an Atheist
· 5 min read
A Racial Shakedown in Portland
· 6 min read

Maarten Boudry

The Enlightenment’s Gravediggers
· 17 min read
Israel Up Close
· 10 min read
Fania Oz-Salzberger on Israel’s Current Turmoil
· 11 min read

Christopher J. Ferguson

Columbus Day: A Fraught Celebration
· 7 min read
Uncomfortable History
· 5 min read
Stuck in the Middle (of Academia)
· 12 min read

Spencer Case

‘Dissident Philosophers’—A Review
· 10 min read
The Journal of Controversial Ideas Is Here
· 11 min read
Beyond the Hypatia Affair: Philosophers Blocking the Way of Inquiry
· 12 min read

Robin Ashenden

Milan Kundera: The Nobel Prize for Literature Winner We Never Had
· 12 min read
Thoughtful Aesthete or Cheerful Philistine?
· 9 min read
Low Life and High Style
· 14 min read

Daniel Friedman

Will Elon Musk Take Over Twitter?
· 11 min read
Antiracism, Anti-Semitism, and the False Problem of Jewish Success
· 15 min read
Is the My Little Pony Fan Community Really Full of Nazis?
· 7 min read

Heather Mac Donald

Trump and the Academic Cocoon
· 12 min read
A Kiss Is Just a Kiss
· 9 min read
Bastardizing Beethoven
· 10 min read

Julia Friedman

The Art of Social Engineering
· 6 min read
Moral Permission to Murder
· 6 min read
Culture of Complaint and the New Deal Murals
· 7 min read

Jaspreet Singh Boparai

Fragments Against the Ruins
· 17 min read
Epic Failure
· 14 min read
Master of Cinema
· 24 min read

Rob Henderson

Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment—A Review
· 16 min read
When Men Behave Badly—A Review
· 12 min read
Persuasion and the Prestige Paradox: Are High Status People More Likely to Lie?
· 13 min read

Zaid Jilani

George Makari's ‘Of Fear and Strangers’—A Review
· 6 min read
Stop Sensationalizing the Threat of Right-Wing Political Violence
· 7 min read
How The Intercept Abandoned Its Truth-Seeking Mission—And Lost Its Best Journalist
· 9 min read

Ronald Radosh

Sol Stern 1935–2025
· 14 min read
Buckley’s Blind Spots
· 25 min read
Red Spies and Lies
· 23 min read

Iona Italia

Because the Night Belongs to Lovers
· 8 min read
Podcast #293: The First Journalists
· 60 min read
A New Year’s Message from the Managing Editor
· 6 min read

Razib Khan

Why There Will Not Be a Beige Future
· 5 min read
Demographics Are Not Destiny, After All
· 8 min read
Destiny of Earth
· 6 min read

Jeffrey Herf

An Evening in Neukölln
· 10 min read
Agitprop at the AHA
· 15 min read
Kamala Harris’s Very Big Tent
· 10 min read

Eric Kaufmann

If ‘Woke’ Puritanism Is the Disease, Trump’s Amoral Populism Isn’t the Cure
· 7 min read
Progressivism, Sexuality, and Mental Illness
· 12 min read
The Threat to Academic Freedom: From Anecdotes to Data
· 24 min read

Louise Perry

The Dishonest and Misogynistic Hate Campaign Against J.K. Rowling
· 7 min read
Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family—A Review
· 9 min read
Are Contemporary Feminists Too Agreeable?
· 9 min read

Gideon Scopes

New Title IX Regulations Protect the Innocent
· 9 min read
Towards a Worker's Bill of Rights
· 9 min read
The Pitfalls of Too Much Security
· 10 min read

Greg Ashman

Direct Instruction Works. So Why Is It Controversial?
· 7 min read
What's Wrong With the New Australian Curriculum?
· 7 min read
Can You Teach Children to be Anti-Racist?
· 6 min read

Andrew Glover

Falling Fertility: A Crisis We Refuse to Face
· 7 min read
Reverse Sexism in Australian Research
· 6 min read
Vaccine Hesitancy and the Paradox of Choice
· 4 min read

Clay Routledge

From Academia to Hollywood: An Interview with Tony Tost
· 21 min read
Religious Faith and the Family: An Interview with Dr. W. Bradford Wilcox
· 6 min read
Meaning Matters
· 8 min read

Herbert Bushman

Two Wars, a Wedding, and a Funeral
· 12 min read
Showdown in Champagne
· 18 min read
Under Attila’s Gaze
· 28 min read

Matthew Blackwell

Outback Australia and the Information Wars
· 14 min read
An Outback Conspiracy
· 13 min read
Black Lives Matter and the Mechanics of Conformity
· 17 min read

Mazelit Airaksinen

Tyranny of the Ethnography: How Lived Experience Corrupts the Social Sciences
· 6 min read
Why Colleges Should Stop Teaching “Toxic Masculinity”
· 4 min read
Review: Paying the Price: College Costs, Financial Aid, and the Betrayal of the American Dream — Sara Goldrick-Rab
· 4 min read

Sky Gilbert

The Sad Spectacle of ‘Drag Queen Story Hour’
· 11 min read
With Theatres Shuttered, I Tried to Stage a 'Zoom Play.' (It Didn't Work)
· 8 min read
R.M. Vaughan (1965–2020): A Beautiful Mind Silently Extinguished in a Time of Fear
· 8 min read

Oliver Traldi

The Pervert’s Guide to Philosophy
· 19 min read
Civil Rights and Wrongs
· 16 min read
The State of ‘Nature’
· 7 min read

Vincent Harinam

Simping and the Sexual Marketplace
· 12 min read
Mate Selection for Modernity
· 17 min read
Is Woke Capitalism Profitable?
· 14 min read

Bernard Lane

Banning the Blockers
· 9 min read
How Australia’s Press Council Has Been Used to Stifle the Gender Debate
· 17 min read
Four Corners' Failure
· 11 min read

Naomi Schaefer Riley

Racial Disparities and Child Protection
· 8 min read
Fear and the Overton Window
· 8 min read
Philanthropy and Pluralism
· 5 min read

David C. Geary

The WEF’s Gender Disinformation Campaign
· 14 min read
The Great Divergence
· 8 min read
Sex Differences in the Brain and the Mind
· 12 min read

Hannah Gal

Invisible Disability and Hidden Potential
· 16 min read
A Love Letter to the Theatre
· 12 min read
Sir Roger Deakins—An Englishman in LA
· 6 min read

Adam Wakeling

The New Political Christianity
· 9 min read
Anti-Enlightenment Thinking, Past and Present
· 9 min read
Cancelling Comedians While the World Burns—A Review
· 7 min read

David Cohen

Beautiful Visions
· 11 min read
Talking Nick Cave Blues
· 13 min read
Born to Boss
· 14 min read

Helen Dale

Surviving the Woke Workplace
· 9 min read
Taking on the Offendotrons: a review of Russell Blackford's 'The Tyranny of Opinion'
· 15 min read
The Divided Kingdom
· 15 min read

Debra Soh

How the Nonbinary Trend Hurts Those with Real Gender Dysphoria
· 6 min read
The Boy Scouts' Bankruptcy, and the Scourge of Childhood Sex Abuse
· 5 min read
Intersectionalism Is Nonsense. But the Backlash Against It Is Very Real
· 5 min read

Ari David Blaff

What Adolescence Gets Wrong
· 8 min read
When Anti-Racism Training Becomes ‘Vexatious’ Abuse
· 32 min read
Rebalancing the Gender Narrative
· 7 min read

Jonathan Church

Why Culture Matters for Racial Disparities
· 19 min read
Robin DiAngelo’s Misreading of Michel Foucault
· 5 min read
The Truth According to Social Justice—A Review of 'Cynical Theories'
· 8 min read

Gregory Gorelik

The Ironies of Sex
· 8 min read
Alternative, Scientifically-Literate Guidelines for Psychological Practice with Boys and Men
· 12 min read
Traditionalists and Activists are Both Wrong About Sex and Gender
· 8 min read

Alexander Blum

Disorder in Heaven
· 7 min read
Democratic Socialism or Social Democracy?
· 7 min read
Religions, Nations, and Other Useful Fictions
· 7 min read

David S. Wills

The Dualism of Duluoz
· 15 min read
Murakami On Writing
· 11 min read
Napoleon in Rags
· 13 min read

Irene Ogrizek

The Dishonesty of #MeToo in Canada's Literary Scene
· 9 min read
Campus Counsellors and the Politicization of Sexual Assault
· 9 min read
Laura Kipnis, Camille Paglia and the Redefinition of Sex
· 6 min read

Emma C Williams

In Defence of Private Tuition
· 6 min read
On Opinions and Entitlement
· 5 min read
Taking the Wonder Out of Science Education
· 7 min read

James D. Miller

It’s Time to Start Treating High School Math Like Football
· 6 min read
Machine Learning, Deep Fakes, and the Threat of an Artificially Intelligent Hate-Bot
· 6 min read
The Apocalyptic Threat from Artificial Intelligence Isn’t Science Fiction
· 11 min read

Brad Polumbo

No, There’s No ‘Epidemic’ of Anti-Transgender Violence
· 8 min read
The Outing of 'Lady G': Humiliating a Closeted Gay Republican in the Name of LGBT Rights
· 6 min read
Press Censorship Has Always Hurt Democracy. In the Age of COVID-19, It's Also Killing People
· 5 min read

Christopher J. Snowdon

George Orwell’s Error
· 13 min read
The Rise of the Respectable Conspiracy Theory
· 14 min read
How Do They Know This?
· 6 min read

Jared Marcel Pollen

Piketty’s Progress
· 10 min read
A World of Waste, Stripped of Transcendence: James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’ at 100
· 13 min read
‘Woke Racism’—A Review
· 12 min read

Marian L. Tupy

The Ancient Roots of Western Self-Criticism
· 7 min read
Why We Distrust Technology
· 5 min read
Anti-Colonialism's Bad History
· 6 min read

Ralph Leonard

Setting Man Free from Men
· 11 min read
Against the Death Penalty
· 9 min read
Roman Polanski’s ‘Chinatown’ Fifty Years On
· 9 min read

Robert C. Thornett

Fentanyl in America: Geography of a Crisis
· 11 min read
Searching for Presidential Rhetoric
· 13 min read
Siberia: Russia’s Neglected Heartland
· 9 min read

Wilfred Reilly

The Accomplishments of Black Conservative Thought
· 7 min read
One ‘Maverick’ Documents Another—Jason Riley’s Biography of Thomas Sowell
· 10 min read
Facts Don’t Care About Your Diversity Training Certificate—A Critique of Credentialism
· 10 min read

Noah Carl

The Petulant Campaign Against Eric Kaufmann
· 5 min read
Britain's Academic Free Speech Bill
· 13 min read
Lockdown Scepticism Was Never a ‘Fringe’ Viewpoint
· 11 min read

Neema Parvini

A Tale of Two Cities: The Modern Soothsayers
· 5 min read
What We Talk About When We Talk About Immigration
· 11 min read
Individuals and Symbols
· 7 min read

Robert Zubrin

What We Can Create on Mars
· 18 min read
Why We Should Settle Mars
· 13 min read
How Accurate is Christopher Nolan’s ‘Oppenheimer’?
· 10 min read

Rumy Hasan

From Playboy Sports Star to Islamist Politician: The Strange Turn of Imran Khan
· 6 min read
Masochistic Nationalism—A Review
· 7 min read
The Suffocation of Academic Freedom by the Research Excellence Framework
· 5 min read

RJ Smith

Gaza, Islam, and the West
· 7 min read
The Sorrow and the Self-Pity
· 8 min read
Céline, Literary Antichrist
· 9 min read

Matthew Mott

Is It Time to Regulate Social Media?
· 8 min read
Online Hate Speech and the Nazi Pug
· 6 min read
The Internet Is Not a Children’s TV Channel
· 6 min read

Stephen Elliott

Without and Within, a Fin-de-Siècle Moment
· 8 min read
‘Nobody Likes the Other Guy’: On the Road With Donald Trump’s Diehards
· 20 min read
‘Things You Should Be Aware Of’: A Pandemic Prose Poem
· 5 min read

Paulina Neuding

Sweden Has Resisted a Lockdown. But That Doesn't Make it a Bastion of Liberty
· 6 min read
Scandinavian Airlines: Get Woke, Cry Wolf
· 5 min read
Saint Lucia—Darkness Has Not Overcome The Light
· 2 min read

Thomas Doherty

A Perfectly Charming Chinese Girl
· 11 min read
American Assassinations
· 10 min read
An Eye for the Jugular
· 11 min read

Patrick Lee Miller

Francis Fukuyama’s Master Concept
· 13 min read
Between Discipline and Chaos
· 11 min read
Liberalism Can Succeed
· 24 min read

Michael Aaron

Evergreen State and the Battle for Modernity Part 2: True Believers, Fence Sitters, and Group Conformity
· 9 min read
A Tale of Two Europes
· 9 min read
Evergreen State and the Battle for Modernity
· 8 min read