Art and Culture
A collection of 759 posts
Genes, Environment, and Luck: What We Can and Cannot Control
Michael Shermer
· 14 min read
Malaysia's Struggle to Preserve Religious Pluralism
Residing in Malaysia in the final years of the Najib administration, one could be forgiven for thinking society had somehow collectively lost its mind.
Imran Said
· 12 min read
Glimpsing Our Own Health Secrets: The Coming Revolution in Health-Care Transparency
Does more transparency mean that patients will become responsible for catching errors that doctors themselves should have prevented?
Amitha Kalaichandran
· 7 min read
The New War on Comedy
Once you make it acceptable to tell the jester what is off limits in one context, you enable those who would seek to silence him elsewhere.
Konstantin Kisin
· 5 min read
Headline Rhymes
Graham Verdon
· 1 min read
The 2018 Free Thought Awards
Quillette’s success comes from a group of writers compelled to express the truth as they see it. We couldn’t be prouder of our association with so many inspiring, talented free thinkers. From the dozens, we give a special nod to these five for their stellar contribution in 2018.
Quillette
· 4 min read
Reversing the Descent of Man
It is easy to see what satisfaction the institution of the dependent family gives to all sorts and conditions of men – to the tyrannous man what opportunities to tyranny
Geoff Dench
· 12 min read
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Graham Verdon
· 1 min read
Aristophanes’ Orphans: A Disabled Trans Woman Surveys the Grey Zone Between Love and Fetish
Everyone found themselves feeling empty and longing for their other half, be it the woman you were attached to or the man you were attached to.
Emma McAllister
· 10 min read
Don't Deny Girls the Evolutionary Wisdom of Fairy-Tales
Yet, this is the sort of hysteria used to justify yanking away the wonderful fun of watching Disney princess films. Remember fun?
Amy Alkon
· 7 min read
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Graham Verdon
· 1 min read
A Night Out with a Muslim and an Atheist
What is Islam and how does it differ from Islamism? And is this a hard and fast distinction for the majority of Muslims?
Andy Ngo
· 5 min read
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Graham Verdon
· 1 min read
Take It from Someone Who Has Suffered Real Physical Abuse: Words Aren't Violence
The ordinary challenges of life now are being reinvented as trauma, and words are conflated with violence.
Alexandra Berryhill
· 10 min read