Crime - Quillette

Victim Blaming Revisited

Exploring biases and criticisms in the perception of crime victims, from robbery to rape.

28 Nov 2023 · 6 min read

Killed for a Rainbow Flag: Are Critics of Trans Ideology Responsible?

The inflammatory rhetoric that attempts to link hideous crimes like the recent shooting with legitimate concerns is misleading and misguided.

T.M. Murray

1 Sep 2023 · 6 min read

The Wrongful Exoneration of Adnan Syed Part II: The Legal and Media Circus

Adnan Syed would never have been released had ‘Serial’ not been made, and why advocacy journalism must be treated with caution.

Andrew Hammel

22 May 2023 · 53 min read

The Wrongful Exoneration of Adnan Syed Part I: A Straightforward Murder Case

A serious reexamination of this case must begin by setting out the evidence that led the jury to convict.

Andrew Hammel

22 May 2023 · 45 min read

Chicago’s Criminal Irresponsibility

Progressive thinking on urban violence is so unrealistic it is dystopian.

Jukka Savolainen

29 Apr 2023 · 8 min read

How New Orleans Became a Hive of JFK Conspiracism

Jim Garrison’s theory of the presidential assassination was based on false evidence and homophobic paranoia. Yet many still believe he was right.

Michel Jacques Gagné

22 Nov 2022 · 15 min read

Guilty and Insane

Dissociative Identity Disorder and the riddle of human responsibility.

Daniel Kriegman

29 Jul 2022 · 20 min read

Lost Soul Behind Bars

The untold story of Upheaval, a prison band that recorded one of the most sought-after soul singles of the 1970s.

Max Wilson

28 Jul 2022 · 21 min read

“I Believe in America”

Fifty Years of ‘The Godfather‘

Graham Daseler

22 Jul 2022 · 14 min read

Honorable Men

Falcone, Borsellino, and the legacy of Italy’s long and bitter war on organized crime.

Maura Cremin

17 Jul 2022 · 21 min read

The Cause of America’s Gun-Death Epidemic? It’s Guns

When comparing state to state, and nation to nation, more firearms usually means more firearms-related deaths

Michael Shermer

15 Jun 2022 · 11 min read

When my mother called me in from play one afternoon to meet the man seated in our living room, her introduction was redundant—I immediately knew who he was. And, right off, I did not like him. His absence had been a painful matter in my life. The house that

John Washington

21 Mar 2022 · 13 min read

The Transmogrification of Harvey Weinstein

I was a good friend of Harvey Weinstein during his early years as a concert promoter, before he became Harvey Weinstein, movie mogul. We subsequently drifted apart, and while Harvey went on to find astronomic success in Hollywood, I worked as the chief psychologist at the Massachusetts Treatment Center for

Daniel Kriegman

20 Feb 2022 · 36 min read

Madness for Decivilization

Mental hospitals emerged at a time, Foucault argued, when the state was seeking to impose rational order on societies.

Michael Shellenberger

31 Oct 2021 · 14 min read

Louise Penny’s Armand Gamache: Quebec’s Too-Perfect Police Officer

Detective stories are so popular in our culture that those of us lacking experience of the real life variety sometimes have difficulty telling fact and fiction apart

John Allore

4 Oct 2021 · 9 min read