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Letters to the Editor
· 3 min read
Podcast #327: Will Post-Islamist Iran Get a Royal Restoration?
· 2 min read
Podcast #326: Catching a Serial Killer
· 1 min read

Jonathan Kay

Canada’s Unmarked-Graves Farce Continues Apace
· 8 min read
Stop Pretending the Tumbler Ridge Killer Was Female
· 10 min read
Podcast #317: Sri Lankan by Birth, Tamil by Heritage, Canadian by Choice
· 3 min read

Claire Lehmann

Epstein Mania on the Digital Borderlands
· 6 min read
The Women of January 6th
· 7 min read
On Ten Years
· 4 min read

Zoe Booth

Oikophobia and the Crisis of Western Democracy with Shany Mor | Quillette Cetera Ep. 62
· 32 min read
The Thornhill and Palmer Affair: When Evolutionary Biology Challenged Rape Orthodoxy
· 8 min read
Cousin Marriage and Inbreeding: A Genetic History
· 7 min read

John Lloyd

A Shrivelling Continent
· 12 min read
The New Antisemitism
· 11 min read
A Haven for Racists?
· 12 min read

Brian Stewart

Melania at the Mic
· 5 min read
An Hour of Reckoning
· 7 min read
Ezra Klein’s Feeble Liberalism
· 10 min read

Iona Italia

A Justified Assassination
· 6 min read
The Gentle Wildness of Tasmania
· 13 min read
Australia and the Clash of Worlds
· 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

Aaron Sarin

A Strike Against Beijing
· 7 min read
The Fall of Zhang Youxia
· 8 min read
Stranded in History
· 8 min read

Benny Morris

Toppling a Tyrant
· 12 min read
Trump’s Iranian Dilemma
· 10 min read
“No Friends but the Mountains”
· 10 min read

Matt Johnson

American Liberalism and Illiberalism
· 15 min read
MAGA’s Weak Gods
· 23 min read
The Problem with Alt. Media
· 14 min read

Joel Kotkin

The Housing Crisis
· 17 min read
Why Housing Is Becoming Neo-Feudal: The Collapse of Home Ownership
· 10 min read
The Masses and the Market
· 11 min read

Lawrence M. Krauss

The Price of the Epstein Frenzy
· 10 min read
The War on Science
· 1 min read
Trump’s War on Science
· 5 min read

Graham Verdon

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

Holly Lawford-Smith

The Uninvited Sermon
· 8 min read
Defaming the Dead
· 6 min read
The Best Kind of Political Art
· 7 min read

Cathy Young

A Story Spiked
· 18 min read
The New Speech Wars
· 12 min read
Russiagate Redux
· 23 min read

Greg Koabel

That Other Greenland Standoff
· 22 min read
Dawn of the Beaver Wars
· 23 min read
Godly Missionaries—or Evil Sorcerers?
· 25 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

Sean Welsh

Keep Calm and Adapt
· 10 min read
A Lucky History
· 12 min read
Risky, Costly, and Extremely Cold
· 9 min read

Marilyn Simon

Strange Delight
· 15 min read
Sexual Perversity in Ontario
· 13 min read
Scandalous Monogamy and Faithful Infidelity
· 13 min read

Charlotte Allen

Out on the Wily, Windy Moors...
· 20 min read
Cynicism and Cigarettes
· 17 min read
Too Much Gilbert
· 22 min read

Ben Sixsmith

Britain Must Be More Honest With Itself
· 9 min read
Shawls, Books, and Bombs
· 8 min read
How Trump Missed His, and America's, Best Chance on Coronavirus
· 6 min read

Pamela Paresky

Israel’s Ministry of Truth? An Interview with Gadi Taub
· 29 min read
Inside the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’s War-Zone Aid Operation
· 27 min read
The Media War on Israel
· 13 min read

George Case

Heterodox Orthodoxy
· 9 min read
Rage Is Now the Machine
· 7 min read
It’s All Too Much
· 7 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

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

Allan Stratton

Another Tiresome Trans-Activist Power Play
· 9 min read
Greta Thunberg’s Fifteen Minutes
· 11 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

John Aziz

Islamism: Shooting the Messenger
· 8 min read
The Warmth of Collectivism
· 6 min read
The Infinite Reopening of History
· 7 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

The Cost of Indifference
· 16 min read
Joys Known Only to the Insane
· 11 min read
Slim Shady’s Blues
· 10 min read

The Quillette Editorial Board

Editors’ Choice 2025
· 10 min read
Israel’s Hard-Won Victory
· 6 min read
Naive Protest and Calculated Terror
· 5 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

Michael Shermer

The Truth About Free Will
· 9 min read
The New Holocaust Deniers
· 14 min read
An Unscientific American
· 12 min read

Steve Salerno

Pride and Prejudice
· 16 min read
Purity, Profit, and Politics
· 23 min read
The Worst Racial Slur, In Context
· 16 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

Maarten Boudry

The Ingratitude of the Well-Fed
· 13 min read
The Enlightenment's Gravediggers
· 1 min read
They Don’t Believe It Either
· 13 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

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

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

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

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

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

Julia Friedman

Arrest and Moral Pageantry
· 8 min read
Appetite for Destruction
· 8 min read
The Art of Social Engineering
· 6 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

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

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

Ronald Radosh

Ballad of a Song and Dance Man
· 20 min read
Sol Stern 1935–2025
· 14 min read
Buckley’s Blind Spots
· 25 min read

Razib Khan

The 100 Million Killed Under Communist Regimes Matter
· 6 min read
Why There Will Not Be a Beige Future
· 5 min read
Demographics Are Not Destiny, After All
· 8 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

Jeffrey Herf

The Central Dichotomy
· 7 min read
An Evening in Neukölln
· 10 min read
Agitprop at the AHA
· 15 min read

Eric Kaufmann

The End of Australian Exceptionalism
· 9 min read
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

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

Jaspreet Singh Boparai

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

Gideon Scopes

Is the Great Feminisation Inevitable?
· 10 min read
New Title IX Regulations Protect the Innocent
· 9 min read
Towards a Worker's Bill of Rights
· 9 min read

Graham Daseler

God of the Yawning Gaps
· 13 min read
The Conned Artist
· 11 min read
The Jewel in the Crown
· 21 min read

Hannah Gal

The Destruction and the Resurrection
· 11 min read
“These Songs Are Timeless”
· 9 min read
Invisible Disability and Hidden Potential
· 16 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

Adam Wakeling

A Self-Conscious Nation
· 15 min read
The New Political Christianity
· 9 min read
Anti-Enlightenment Thinking, Past and Present
· 9 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

David Cohen

Folk, Feedback, and Fury
· 16 min read
Beautiful Visions
· 11 min read
Talking Nick Cave Blues
· 13 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

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

Helen Dale

Liberalism v The Rule of Law
· 21 min read
Surviving the Woke Workplace
· 9 min read
Taking on the Offendotrons: a review of Russell Blackford's 'The Tyranny of Opinion'
· 15 min read

Ralph Leonard

England’s Founding Father
· 14 min read
The Strange Death of English Justice
· 13 min read
Setting Man Free from Men
· 11 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

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

Ron Capshaw

Murder Most Foul
· 10 min read
Stormclouds Over the Capitol
· 7 min read
Precipice of Collapse
· 8 min read

Marian L. Tupy

A Vindication of Bjorn Lomborg
· 7 min read
The Ancient Roots of Western Self-Criticism
· 7 min read
Why We Distrust Technology
· 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

David S. Wills

A Subterranean Celebration
· 13 min read
The Dualism of Duluoz
· 15 min read
Murakami On Writing
· 11 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

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

Imran Said

Terror and Transformation
· 12 min read
The Moral Collapse of Empire
· 22 min read
Thai Colonialism in the Malay World
· 15 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

Vincent Harinam

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

Robert Zubrin

Musk Is Enticed by the Lunar Siren
· 18 min read
What We Can Create on Mars
· 18 min read
Why We Should Settle Mars
· 13 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

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

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

Geoffrey C. Kabat

The BPA Panic and the Distortion of Science
· 10 min read
Pre-Existing Convictions
· 13 min read
RFK, Jr. and the End of Expertise
· 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

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

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

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

Lisa Marchiano

No, You Don’t Have a Disorder, You Have Feelings
· 8 min read
How Women Can Become Worthy Opponents
· 8 min read
The Ranks of Gender Detransitioners Are Growing. We Need to Understand Why
· 8 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Colin Wright

Eager to ‘Affirm,’ Yet Unwilling to Debate
· 7 min read
I Got Thrown Off Etsy and PayPal for Expressing My Belief in Biological Reality
· 8 min read
Weekly Roundup
· 6 min read

Kathrine Jebsen Moore

Support for Scottish Independence Wanes as the SNP Is Engulfed in Scandal
· 7 min read
Meet Critical Theorists' Latest Target: Critical Theorists
· 10 min read
Fearful Norwegians Wonder: Are 'Swedish Conditions' Coming to the Streets of Oslo?
· 7 min read

Benjamin Kerstein

American Surrealist
· 8 min read
Unmasked and Anonymous
· 18 min read
Sex and Smashed Steel
· 25 min read