A collection of 54 posts
"That was the moment I realised I had underestimated the ideological rot inside academia."
Even those of us who sounded alarms before the November election underestimated just how unhinged the second Trump presidency would turn out to be.
Iona Italia talks to Alan Davison about censorship, self-censorship, the Online Safety Act and other threats to free speech in Australia.
Let us not confuse the freedom to speak with the freedom to mislead.
The cure may be worse than the disease.
Quillette editor-in-chief Claire Lehmann speaks with Bangladeshi-born Australian psychiatrist and journalist Tanveer Ahmed about the rise of Jew-hatred in their country.
Brady Corbet’s panoramic epic, ‘The Brutalist,’ may be technically brilliant, but it is a cheat and a fraud.
Anti-Zionist falsehoods, malicious absurdities, and self-serving martyrdom at Columbia.
If the American Historical Association formally adopts a resolution accusing Israel of “scholasticide,” it could destroy the organisation’s reputation for serious scholarship.
‘The Message’ is a lopsided, unserious, and frequently embarrassing essay, the real target of which is the very existence of Israel.
Examining Australia’s leadership vacuum in the wake of the Melbourne synagogue firebombing.
While Islam traditionally treated Jews with contempt, antisemitic conspiracy theories imported from Germany escalated this animosity by vilifying Jews as agents of diabolical evil.
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with author Paul Berman about the lingering influence of ‘Black Power’ advocate Stokely Carmichael, who once infamously claimed that ‘the only good Zionist is a dead Zionist.’
Frantz Fanon, Stokely Carmichael, and the roots of the uproar over Zionism.
Iona Italia talks to Gerfried Ambrosch about pro-Israel feeling on the German Left, antisemitism among Muslim immigrants and why Israel’s safety is “Germany’s reason of state.”