Making Fiction Boring
The ideological capture of college writing programs has ushered in an age of didactic, anodyne, and tedious books.
Adam Szetela
· 14 min read
Narrated
A collection of 165 posts
Israel’s Hard-Won Victory
The Jewish state has secured its borders, recovered all living hostages, and put its enemies on notice as to what awaits them if they attempt a reprise of 7 October.
The Quillette Editorial Board
· 6 min read
We Need to Talk About Trans-Identified Killers
The list of violent criminals who imagine they were ‘born in the wrong body’ is growing.
Forest Romm, Kevin Waldman
· 12 min read
All at Sea
Greta Thunberg’s sailing trip to Gaza was a confused piece of activist theatre of a kind that is sadly very much in vogue.
John Aziz
· 8 min read
The Malpractice of Menopausal Medicine Reveals a Broken Medical System
Healthcare for menopause and perimenopause is the single most patient-betraying area of medicine—but it has plenty of company.
Amy Alkon
· 14 min read
No, You Don’t Have a Disorder, You Have Feelings
When we construe normal feeling as illness, we offer people an understanding of themselves as disordered. This encourages people to be stuck in a limiting narrative.
Lisa Marchiano
· 8 min read
The Art of Middle Eastern Pillow Talk
Amir and I had very different ideas about which side had committed a ‘genocide.’ But it didn’t stop us from being civil.
David Christopher Kaufman
· 6 min read
Pride and Prejudice
The self-esteem movements that once deranged America’s school curricula have since deranged the realm of identity activism.
Steve Salerno
· 16 min read
Brainrot, Not Ideology
The assassination of Charlie Kirk shows how Discord, memes, and “online brainrot” may motivate disaffected youth more than ideology.
Claire Lehmann
· 5 min read
The 100 Million Killed Under Communist Regimes Matter
The death toll under Communist regimes is of incredible magnitude. Yet whenever I attack Communism for being an evil ideology, I get a serious number of rebuttals.
Razib Khan
· 6 min read
Gaza and the Collapse of Truth-Seeking
The Gaza aid-site controversy and a crisis of journalism.
Gary Geipel
· 8 min read
Fragments Against the Ruins
In his deliberately archaic new rendition of Homer’s epic, Jeffrey Duban takes a defiant stand against the modernisation of classical literature in defence of a disappearing tradition.
Jaspreet Singh Boparai
· 17 min read
Mahmood Mamdani Wants to Dismantle America
Zohran Mamdani’s father Mahmood is a postnationalist who advocates the dissolution of all nation states, which he views as intrinsically violent and unjust.
John Aziz
· 7 min read
Naive Protest and Calculated Terror
The Australian security services have confirmed that Iran orchestrated antisemitic attacks in Sydney and Melbourne. This is not the first time leftist causes have been hijacked by Islamists. It is time we confronted this danger.
The Quillette Editorial Board
· 5 min read
The Sensitivity Era
Amid literary subcultures, competition has always been fierce and unrelenting and has become even more so in our age of elite overproduction. On social media, these embittered rivalries play out in public amid a chorus of backbiting worthy of Chekhov.
Robert Huddleston
· 8 min read