Human Rights - Quillette

Bias and Betrayal

The extensive rot at the heart of Human Rights Watch.

6 Dec 2023 · 14 min read

Justice in Stockholm

Thirty-four years after the massacre of political prisoners in Iran, the conviction of Hamid Noury in Sweden has been a victory for accountability and for the truth.

Roya Hakakian

7 Feb 2023 · 19 min read

The Loneliness of the ‘Bridge Man’ Generation

China’s dissenters are isolated. But they are not as isolated as they once were.

Aaron Sarin

27 Nov 2022 · 9 min read

China in the Age of Surveillance

China’s security apparatus may not be able to see into the minds of the people, but it can make their lives a misery in the attempt.

Aaron Sarin

25 Sep 2022 · 11 min read

The Road to Genocide

The Uyghurs have the potential to threaten China's national unity, which is the real reason we are seeing the largest incarceration of an ethnic or religious minority since the Holocaust.

Aaron Sarin

31 May 2022 · 17 min read

The Acquittal of the Colston Four

Both the right to freedom of expression and the institution of trial by jury came under intense scrutiny just three weeks after Raab’s article, when a Bristol jury acquitted four young people of criminal damage, even though they had all admitted tearing down a city centre statue.

Matthew Scott

25 Jan 2022 · 14 min read

Burgis on Hitchens—Getting Radicalism Wrong

I anticipated a more thoughtful exploration of Christopher Hitchens’s political history and relevance than what Ben Burgis provided.

Matt Johnson

2 Jan 2022 · 15 min read

Zemmour’s Final Word

The danger—or opportunity, depending on your view—is that two radical candidates like Mélenchon and Zemmour win the first round.

RJ Smith

25 Nov 2021 · 10 min read

Gulags Are for Artists Like Me

The role that journalists must play to uphold our democratic values is integral to democracy and social cohesion. Journalists hold governments and their agencies to account.

Peter Mousaferiadis

18 Oct 2021 · 6 min read

Time for Less Long-Term Thinking About China

Normalization of US-Chinese diplomatic relations in turn led to the biggest exercise in corporate continence in American business history.

Erik D'Amato

5 Sep 2021 · 8 min read

Revisiting Kirkpatrick

Constructive relationships with dictatorships will be key to protecting US interests without direct military involvements.

Niranjan Shankar

24 Aug 2021 · 16 min read

The Language of Totalitarian Dehumanization

A week before the massive protests erupted in Cuba, I was celebrating Fourth of July at a friend’s house in Oakland, California, and listening to her tell me stories about her adventures there. She is a Jewish red diaper baby and today seems to identify as some sort of

Clifton Ross

14 Jul 2021 · 6 min read

On the Dangers of Big COVID

One need not posit some secret cabal of illuminati lizard people or the creation of a clandestine 5G-COVID bioweapon to make sense of the rise and potential dangers of Big COVID.

Michael Robillard

3 Jul 2021 · 14 min read

The Prophet of Dystopia at Rest: Margaret Atwood in Cuba

Canada has never supported the US embargo, and the countries’ good relations are for many Canadians a symbol of our independence.

Yvon Grenier

2 Jul 2021 · 13 min read

The Route to Re-Enchantment

Moving from Cain and Abel to Christ’s Sermon on the Mount, with some Egyptian myths thrown in, he reconnects his young audience to the religious tradition that was always theirs to inherit, but from which they have been estranged by their modern education.

Harrison Pitt

26 Jun 2021 · 9 min read