book review - Quillette (Page 2)

Easy Rider: 50 Years Looking for America—A Review

Bingen is right about one thing, though: Easy Rider really is an important movie—much more important than a simple measure of its quality would suggest—which is probably why the American Film Institute, among others, continues to rate it so highly.

Graham Daseler

21 Apr 2020 · 14 min read

Woody Allen's 'Apropos of Nothing'—A Review

He cannot help being true to himself. In this calm, blithe, and objective memoir, Allen emerges, at wild odds with his comedic persona, as a very tough, independent artist, a passionate lover of women, avowing his innocence of the one and only charge ever leveled against him in 84 years.

David Evanier

21 Apr 2020 · 12 min read

Farewell, My Lovely

Chinatown is a remarkable blend of screenwriter Robert Towne and director Roman Polanski’s antipodal sensibilities.

Graham Daseler

9 Apr 2020 · 14 min read

‘10% Less Democracy’—A Review

Books like 10% Less Democracy help us consider what republican solutions might look like today.

Adam Wakeling

2 Apr 2020 · 10 min read

Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family—A Review

Full Surrogacy Now makes a feminist argument for, as the author puts it, “abolishing the family” by no longer attaching any importance to biological relationships between people.

Louise Perry

30 Mar 2020 · 9 min read

'Against Democracy'—A Review

Against Democracy is an interesting and engaging read.

Adam Wakeling

22 Mar 2020 · 15 min read

The Knowledge Gap—A Review

This is a dimension where knowledge of the world—that same prior knowledge that needs activating—is the last thing that it would occur to anyone to actually teach children in schools.

Greg Ashman

8 Aug 2019 · 7 min read

The Hell of Good Intentions—A Review

Walt is always thinking of ways to blame the most vexing international problems on liberal hegemony. From proliferation to terrorism to Trump, he sees its malignant influence everywhere he looks.

Matt Johnson

6 Aug 2019 · 14 min read

Superior: The Return of Race Science—A Review

It is reasonably entertaining to read, and does make some valid points about the misuse of “race science.” Unfortunately, it is also tendentious, dogmatic, and seriously misleading about the current state of scientific knowledge.

Bo Winegard and Noah Carl

5 Jun 2019 · 21 min read

Why We Should Read Machiavelli

Machiavelli focused his analysis of power not on ideals, but on the feasible. In affairs of state, virtue was a matter of efficacy, not piety.

Jonathan Church

1 Jun 2019 · 8 min read

Timely Return to Battle for a Veteran of the Culture Wars

While Hanson is good in setting out the causes of Trump’s victory, he falls short when it comes to making recommendations for the future.

Sumantra Maitra

22 Apr 2019 · 7 min read

George Faludy: Hungarian Poet and Hero for Our Times

Faludy’s greatest weapon—what really allows him to swat away the mosquitoes of passing ideologies—is his delight in sensual pleasures.

Robin Ashenden

19 Apr 2019 · 6 min read

Politics and the Practice of Warm-Heartedness

Brooks blames America’s bitter politics on the “outrage industrial complex”: the media, politicians and commentators who entice voters, attract television viewers, and sell books and event tickets premised on hatred of the other side.