Long Read - Quillette (Page 4)

Paranoid Pop

A look back at the remarkable life and career of one of the 20th Century’s most original artists.

David Cohen

19 Dec 2022 · 19 min read

And Yet it May (Or May Not) Move

If we allow ideological campaigns to discourage controversial research, we will be making a terrible mistake.

Bryan J. Pesta

16 Dec 2022 · 21 min read

All About Dave

The tragic rise of a former comic, liberal, and Angeleno.

Ross Anderson

15 Dec 2022 · 33 min read

The Philadelphia Experiments

How an enterprising doctor, an elite university, and negligent public officials turned a city prison system into the largest human research factory in America.

Allen M. Hornblum

10 Dec 2022 · 26 min read

Fukuyama’s Victory

Liberal democracy has again proved itself capable of overcoming its internal challenges and contradictions.

Matt Johnson

7 Dec 2022 · 22 min read

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 · 26 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