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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.

Brandon McMurtrie

21 Mar 2024 · 5 min read

The author, pictured on a bridge in Amsterdam, in 1993, a few weeks before she was attacked.

Toward Ruin or Recovery?

The modern feminist response to rape is failing women, and it is failing victims of rape most of all.

Larissa Phillips

20 Mar 2024 · 35 min read

Are Climate Doomers for Real?

Activists of all stripes will continue to preach that the end of the world is nigh, but that doesn’t mean that we should take them seriously.

Maarten Boudry

18 Mar 2024 · 14 min read

Environmentalism Should Not Be Intersectional

Sustainable progress requires that ecological concerns be taken seriously and addressed rationally.

Gerfried Ambrosch

15 Feb 2024 · 12 min read

The Southern Poverty Law Center’s New Enemy: Americans Who Accept Biology

A new SPLC propaganda document claims to ‘expose’ a vast ‘Anti-LGBTQ+ Pseudoscience Network’ that’s supposedly targeting trans people.

The Quillette Editorial Board

27 Dec 2023 · 12 min read

A History of Feminist Antisemitism

The story of how activists and academics exchanged the struggle for universal female improvement for a politics of division and hatred.

Kara Jesella

15 Dec 2023 · 21 min read