Law - Quillette

Victim Blaming Revisited

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

28 Nov 2023 · 6 min read

A Murder in Namibia

How two bungling American assassins travelled over 7,000 miles to settle a grudge, and then turned their trial into a nine-year circus.

Dan Kowalski

1 Nov 2023 · 14 min read

Where Does ‘Wokeness’ Come From?

Opponents of wokeness sometimes say that “facts don’t care about your feelings.” But the federal judiciary does.

Richard Hanania

22 Sep 2023 · 6 min read

The Aboriginal Voice to Parliament: Wrong in Principle, Disastrous in Practice

We should not make race the organising principle of a new chapter of our Constitution.

Ramesh Thakur

17 Aug 2023 · 18 min read

The Peculiar Silence in the Students for Fair Admissions Decision

Are racial preferences in university admissions really dead?

Ethan Blevins

16 Aug 2023 · 7 min read

It Doesn’t Make It Alright

The SCOTUS decision on affirmative action has ended a hypocritical and incoherent policy.

Andrew Hammel

3 Jul 2023 · 15 min read

Samantha Geimer and Emmanuelle Seigner in Conversation

The two women most directly affected by the 1977 Polanski scandal discuss guilt, shame, feminism, #MeToo, the media, and the search for truth and understanding.

Peggy Sastre

6 May 2023 · 29 min read

The Fragility of the Caste-Oppression Hypothesis

Empty claims of caste discrimination in the West have damaging legal, reputational, and social consequences.

Prakash Shah

29 Apr 2023 · 8 min read

Remembering Rumpole

John Mortimer’s fictional barrister was—like his creator—a rogue redeemed by a fierce commitment to the presumption of innocence.

Kevin Mims

1 Apr 2023 · 18 min read

Dismantle DEI Ideology

The disgraceful scenes at Stanford are a flawless embodiment of how diversity doctrine distorts academic life and constrains decision-making.

Heather Mac Donald

26 Mar 2023 · 15 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

Ending Discrimination by Twitter

Gender critical feminists are among those who have been excluded from Twitter for years. The time is right for a correction.

Holly Lawford-Smith

28 Nov 2022 · 8 min read

Critical Race Theory Wasn’t Always Like This

The version of CRT that I studied in the 1990s offered a useful critique of American institutions—rather than a moral condemnation of American souls.

Jonathan Kay

20 Jun 2022 · 5 min read

Why Not Polygamy?

Polygamy is a criminal offense throughout the Western world. Would making it legal be progress?

Cheryl Mendelson

28 May 2022 · 18 min read

The Acquittal of the Colston Four

On December 14th, 2021, the UK’s Justice Minister, Dominic Raab, wrote an article [https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/dominic-raab-new-bill-of-rights-will-deliver-a-healthy-dose-of-common-sense-vxj50bks6] for the Times, in which he announced plans to reform the Human Rights Act, which incorporates the European Convention on Human Rights into domestic law. It would be replaced,

Matthew Scott

25 Jan 2022 · 13 min read