Long Read - Quillette

Dogmatism, Data, and Public Health

A look back on the 2003 BMJ controversy over passive smoking and mortality.

Geoffrey C. Kabat

15 Sep 2023 · 20 min read

Should We Stay or Should We Go?

Humanity and the Final Frontier.

Joseph Grosso

28 Aug 2023 · 19 min read

‘A Dream Deferred’ Revisited

Shelby Steele’s masterful second book invites black America to reject redemptive liberalism and the helplessness it demands for a humanistic politics of advancement.

Samuel Kronen

22 Aug 2023 · 17 min read

The Lab-Leak Illusion

The laboratory accident hypothesis of COVID-19’s origins is a bust, but the popular consensus is unwilling to accept it.

Jamie Palmer

19 Aug 2023 · 53 min read

Faith Goes to Switzerland

When should we allow a person to hasten her own death?

Brent M. Kious / Margaret Pabst Battin

7 Aug 2023 · 24 min read

A Life in the Fray

A new memoir by Martin Peretz, the former owner and editor-in-chief of The New Republic, provides a timely reminder of what American journalism has lost.

Jeffrey Herf

10 Jul 2023 · 21 min read

‘The Princess Bride’ at 50

A look back at William Goldman’s bonkers metafictional novel ‘The Princess Bride,’ which later became a much-loved family film.

Kevin Mims

19 Jun 2023 · 17 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 · 44 min read

Belafonte Reappraised

Neither hagiographers nor haters of the late musician, actor, and activist have managed to get him right.

Ronald Radosh

20 May 2023 · 17 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 Man Who Invented the Modern Cop Novel

Joseph Wambaugh’s crime fiction has been much imitated but seldom equalled.

Kevin Mims

23 Apr 2023 · 20 min read

Glenn Loury and the Great Partisan Divide

Loury’s scholarship deserves particular attention because he has grappled with the issue of racial inequality from both sides of the structure-agency debate.

Aaron Hanna

13 Apr 2023 · 24 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

Heidegger’s Downfall

Richard Wolin’s reappraisal of Martin Heidegger offers both original contributions and a synthesis of critical scholarship. The result is a timely work of enduring importance.

Jeffrey Herf

22 Feb 2023 · 18 min read