James Cameron Goes Native
‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’ is a Rousseau-esque oikophobic fantasy of evil humans and noble savage aliens.
William Barker
· 8 min read
Art and Culture
A collection of 834 posts
The Original Ladies of Letters
A new book by Elizabeth Scott-Baumann examines the female poets and literary critics who challenged seventeenth-century England’s male literary establishment.
Joan Smith
· 17 min read
On Truth and Beauty
Why art and science serve different ends.
Megan Gafford
· 10 min read
The Soft Disinformation Contagion
How we learned to reason poorly with accurate data.
Jorge Iniesta Cases
· 7 min read
Out on the Wily, Windy Moors...
Emerald Fennell’s misbegotten adaptation of ‘Wuthering Heights’ destroys the very structure of Emily Brontë’s classic story.
Charlotte Allen
· 20 min read
Arrest and Moral Pageantry
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, Mick Jagger, and the theatre of degradation.
Julia Friedman
· 8 min read
The Gender Identity Debate
A selection of Quillette essays and interviews examining the cultural, scientific, and legal dimensions of gender identity.
Quillette
· 7 min read
The End of the Middlebrow Movie
Middlebrow movies weren’t just two-hour escape pods, they functioned as a civic glue, a source of shared language, cross-generational references, and indeed, contemporary American myth.
Harrison Kass
· 7 min read
The Artemis Project
The race is on to build a base for permanent human habitation on the Moon.
Peter Hague
· 7 min read
Why We Still Love the Bomb
Stanley Kubrick’s comic masterpiece ‘Dr Strangelove’ remains a potent allegory for our times.
William Barker
· 9 min read
Shakespeare in Love and Grief
It appears that people now find comfort in the idea that the life of even the greatest of writers is no more satisfying than their own.
Mallory Young
· 10 min read
Strange Delight
Radley Metzger’s 1975 hardcore adaptation of a celebrated literary hoax is a vast improvement on the cynical source material.
Marilyn Simon
· 15 min read
Self-Defeating “Sustainability”
The sustainable agriculture movement’s ideological opposition to biotechnology undermines genuine environmental progress and food security.
Henry I. Miller
· 6 min read
The Canadian Paediatric Society Is Trapped in a Pre-Cass Time Warp
While other jurisdictions adopt balanced, evidence-based protocols for treating gender dysphoria, the CPS has doubled down on an obsolete policy instructing doctors to reflexively ‘affirm’ trans-identified youth.
Chan Kulatunga Moruzi, Peter Sim, Ian Mitchell, Darrell Palmer, Ari R. Joffe
· 30 min read
Murder Most Foul
William J. Mann’s new book about the notorious Black Dahlia case is a valuable corrective to the cottage industry of speculative theories that proliferated after her murder in 1947.
Ron Capshaw
· 10 min read