Long Read - Quillette

Startling Intimations of Greatness

As we await the release of Woody Allen’s 50th feature film, his biographer looks back on the career of one of America’s great cinematic artists.

David Evanier

21 Nov 2022 · 25 min read

FDR and the Holocaust

A widely praised new series by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, and Sarah Botstein distorts the historical record to rehabilitate a flawed US president.

Ronald Radosh

27 Oct 2022 · 25 min read

‘The Dawn of Everything’ and the Politics of Human Prehistory

David Graeber and David Wengrow’s tendentious assault on the Enlightenment and its modern defenders is a bust.

Dennis J. Junk

22 Oct 2022 · 21 min read

Rethinking Authenticity

It is not a destination. It’s our ongoing life’s work as responsible adults.

Niamh Jiménez

21 Oct 2022 · 19 min read

Robert Trivers and the Riddle of Evolved Altruism

Survival of the fittest versus compassion and cooperation in evolutionary theory and politics.

Daniel Kriegman

7 Oct 2022 · 24 min read

Reject the Rules of the Social Media Game

The only winning move is not to play.

Niamh Jiménez

10 Sep 2022 · 19 min read

Fate, Faith, and Suffering

Coping is not enough. We must strive to live.

Samuel Kronen

5 Sep 2022 · 26 min read

Go Ask Beatrice: Notes on a Dishonest Decade

An outstanding new book tells the story of a wildly successful literary hoax. But it was just one of many.

Kevin Mims

2 Aug 2022 · 28 min read

Guilty and Insane

Dissociative Identity Disorder and the riddle of human responsibility.

Daniel Kriegman

29 Jul 2022 · 19 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

The Delia Demolition

Why is the Atlantic slinging mud at the 72-year-old author of ‘Where the Crawdads Sing’ on the eve of the film’s release?

Kevin Mims

19 Jul 2022 · 19 min read

Cognitive Distortions

How the culture wars came for Wikipedia’s articles about human intelligence.

Shuichi Tezuka

18 Jul 2022 · 23 min read

Honorable Men

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

Maura Cremin

17 Jul 2022 · 20 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

Roya Hakakian and How to Speak About What No One Wants to Hear

I. Roya Hakakian is an American writer from Iran who commands a distinctive ability to speak about large and horrific events in a chipper tone that appears to underplay the horrific quality and, by apparently underplaying, ends up subtly underlining. It is an artful tone. It is cagey, charming, disarming,

Paul Berman

27 May 2022 · 33 min read