The German Left’s Jewish Dilemma Many German leftists, mindful of the country’s past, still support Israel. But they risk being outnumbered by antisemitic Muslim immigrants and by decolonialist radicals. Gerfried Ambrosch 25 Jul 2024 · 11 min read
Unbowed but Gravely Wounded Salman Rushdie’s new memoir, ‘Knife,’ describes the assassination attempt its author survived and offers a moving contemplation of mortality. Paul Berman 3 Jun 2024 · 15 min read
How French Intellectuals Ruined the West Postmodernism and Its Impact, Explained. Helen Pluckrose 7 May 2024 · 18 min read
Misadventures of a Stalinist Stooge Benn Steil’s engrossing new biography of Henry A. Wallace is a timely cautionary tale and a masterpiece of 20th-century American history. Ronald Radosh 25 Apr 2024 · 23 min read
Jean-Luc Godard in Retrospect Part II: Fanaticism and Failure (1966–2022) After half a decade of critical adulation, Godard’s career slumped into doctrinaire Maoism, bitterness, incomprehensibility, and irrelevance. It never recovered. Charlotte Allen 16 Apr 2024 · 36 min read
Jean-Luc Godard in Retrospect Part I: Abstraction Hero (1930–65) A brief five-year period produced nearly all the Godard movies that film aficionados still remember, but even these celebrated works have dated poorly. Charlotte Allen 10 Apr 2024 · 33 min read
Toward Ruin or Recovery? The modern feminist response to rape is failing women, and it is failing victims of rape most of all. Larissa Phillips 20 Mar 2024 · 35 min read
History Matters A restoration of history, in all its complexity, is critical to escaping the polarized, rigid, and often insane political environment we now inhabit. Joel Kotkin 14 Sep 2023 · 16 min read
Ending the Hunger Games New pharmaceuticals appear to offer a genuine solution to the problem of excess appetite, that uncontrollable urge to eat more than we need to that keeps so many of us fat. Iona Italia 7 Sep 2023 · 25 min read
NARRATED: My Misspent Years of Conspiracism Greg Ellis reads My Misspent Years of Conspiracism, Jamie Palmer’s essay about his obsession with the JFK assassination. It was published in Quillette on 22nd November 2018. Quillette 22 Nov 2019 · 1 min read
NARRATED: Video Games and the (Male) Meaning of Life Greg Ellis reads Video Games and the (Male) Meaning of Life, Presidential candidate Andrew Yang’s essay on why so many men prefer gaming to real life. It was published in Quillette on 14th December 2018. Quillette 21 Nov 2019 · 1 min read
NARRATED: Feast and Drink For Our Community’s Health Greg Ellis reads Feast and Drink For Our Community’s Health, Claire Lehmann’s essay about the meaning of Christmas. It was published in Quillette on 25th December 2018. Quillette / Claire Lehmann 7 Nov 2019 · 1 min read
NARRATED: The Defenestration of Domingo Greg Ellis reads The Defenestration of Domingo, Heather Mac Donald’s essay about how the famous opera singer fell victim to the #MeToo movement. It was published in Quillette on 18th October 2019. Quillette 31 Oct 2019 · 1 min read
NARRATED: Are Canadians Becoming More Racist? Greg Ellis reads Are Canadians Becoming More Racist? This Week’s Election Proved the Opposite, Jonathan Kay’s essay about the recent election in Canada. It was published Quillette on 22nd October 2019. Quillette / Jonathan Kay 23 Oct 2019 · 1 min read
NARRATED: How David Graeber Cancelled a Colleague Greg Ellis reads How David Graeber Cancelled a Colleague, Claire Lehmann’s article on how a prominent anthropologist and self-styled anarchist tried to ruin the reputation of a former collaborator. It was published in Quillette on 9th September 2019. Quillette / Claire Lehmann 17 Oct 2019 · 1 min read
