Activism - Quillette

Detail from Life of Washington (1936) by Victor Arnautoff, shows a white man in 18th-century dress, a troop of fur trappers.

Culture of Complaint and the New Deal Murals

Art in public spaces will always be scrutinised for the propriety of its iconography, and it will remain under attack as long as its guardians are willing to pander to the narcissistic impulses of the activists.

Julia Friedman

16 Oct 2024 · 7 min read

Totems and Taboos

A cancelled academic has produced a fine new book about the threat posed by progressive pieties.

John Lloyd

6 Aug 2024 · 9 min read

Students holding Israel flags in front of a banner stating "Safe Space for Jewish Students."

The Choice

Should Jewish students accept the mantle of a marginalised group or reject DEI ideology altogether?

David B Rush

18 Jun 2024 · 13 min read

A young woman in a keffiyeh wrapped around her face. She is in a crowd of pro-Palestine supporters

Something Is Wrong

It is time for leftists to forego ideology and embrace a people-centred politics.

Michael Walzer

14 Jun 2024 · 11 min read

Crackhead Barney, Deborah de Robertis, and Ava Louise

The Perfect Trifecta

The new attention economy will always privilege the lowest common denominator in performance art, as it does in everything else.

Julia Friedman

4 Jun 2024 · 8 min read

A young mum carrying a baby. Dark image with shadows, giving an intimate, almost sad tone.

Fear and the Overton Window

The movement to abolish child welfare is endangering children, but professionals are afraid to speak up.

Naomi Schaefer Riley

31 May 2024 · 8 min read

A female demonstrator offers a flower to military police on guard at the Pentagon during an anti-Vietnam demonstration

Waltzing Down the Road to Hell

The unintended consequences of the Sixties’ antiwar protests have become the farce of their 21st-century iteration.

Adam Garfinkle

27 May 2024 · 15 min read

Demonstrators gather at the gates of Columbia University in Morningside Heights, Manhattan, NY, on Saturday, 20 April 2024.

Springtime for Sinwar

Notes on the pro-Hamas Left and its antecedents.

Jeffrey Herf

2 May 2024 · 21 min read

Drew Pavlou surrounded by Putin, Xi Jing Ping, Khameini and a "triggered" woke woman meme. Linked In/Wikimedia Commons/Canva.

Defending Democracy with Drew Pavlou: Quillette Cetera Episode 34

The student activist discusses the risks that Iran, China, and Russia, and their Western sympathisers, pose to liberal democracies.

Zoe Booth

27 Apr 2024 · 1 min read

Academia Versus Civilization

The antisemitism of campus leftism may be incidental. The barbarism is the point.

Tal Fortgang / Jonathan Deluty

25 Mar 2024 · 16 min read

Pious Fraud, or the Moral Licence to Lie

Building worldviews and political movements on falsehoods destroys common sense-making, impedes effective policy design, and erodes social trust and cohesion.