Narrated - Quillette (Page 2)

The Seven Laws of Pessimism

If life is better than ever before, why does the world seem so depressing?

Maarten Boudry

26 Jan 2024 · 16 min read

The Return of the Progressive Atrocity

It is the responsibility of Western activists to know who and what they support, and to separate themselves—openly and decisively—from programs and regimes that are predicated on violence and repression.

Susie Linfield

18 Nov 2023 · 21 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

For a Time, a Pit Bull Gave Me Back My Son

If I couldn’t openly love him, I would love what he loved.

Steve Salerno

8 Sep 2023 · 12 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

A Conspiracy Theory of Connotations

The obsessive policing of language in the name of progress relies on magical thinking.

Oliver Traldi

24 Feb 2023 · 7 min read

America’s Forgotten Crisis

A terrific new account of America’s social and political turmoil during the 1910s and ’20s provides some much-needed perspective on the problems afflicting the country today.

Michael J. Totten

17 Dec 2022 · 14 min read

NARRATED: In Defense of Decency

Greg Ellis reads In Defense of Decency, Robert McLeod’s essay arguing for more civility when we disagree with each other about politics and social justice. It was published in Quillette on July 10, 2019.

Quillette / Robert McLeod

20 Sep 2019 · 1 min read

NARRATED: Coming Together to Honor a Dead Rock Star

Greg Ellis reads Coming Together to Honor a Dead Rock Star—And Ward Off Our Demons, Neil Gray’s essay about the suicide of Scott Hutchinson of Frightened Rabbit. It was published in Quillette on July 21, 2019.

Quillette / Neil Gray

12 Sep 2019 · 1 min read

NARRATED: How Due Process Fell Victim to Good Intentions

Greg Ellis reads How Due Process Fell Victim to Good Intentions: A Veteran Court Reporter Looks Back, Christie Blatchford’s essay about how due process has been eroded by the insistence that we should believe victims. It was published in Quillette on July 14, 2019.

Quillette

4 Sep 2019 · 1 min read

NARRATED: What They Don't Teach You at the University of Washington's Ed School

Greg Ellis reads What They Don’t Teach You at the University of Washington’s Ed School, Nick Wilson’s account of spending a year at what turned out to be Neo-Marxist madrasa. It was published in Quillette on April 5, 2019.

Quillette

23 Aug 2019 · 1 min read

NARRATED: Ideology and Facts Collide at Oberlin College by Daniel McGraw

Greg Ellis reads Ideology and Facts Collide at Oberlin College, Daniel McGraw’s essay on the legal dispute between a bakery and the liberal arts college that ended with a $33 million payout to the small business. It was published in Quillette on June 20, 2019.

Quillette

1 Aug 2019 · 1 min read

Listen to Cometh the Hour, Cometh the Man: A Profile of Boris Johnson by Toby Young

Toby Young reads Cometh the Hour, Cometh the Man, his profile of Boris Johnson, Britain’s new Prime Minister. The piece was published in Quillette on 23rd July.

Quillette

29 Jul 2019 · 1 min read

NARRATED: Watching My Own Excommunication—on a Facebook Video by Sky Gilbert

Greg Ellis reads Watching My Own Excommunication—on a Facebook Video, Sky Gilbert’s essay about being expelled from a theater company that he founded for being insufficiently woke. It was published in Quillette on 1st June 2019.

Quillette

25 Jul 2019 · 1 min read

A MeToo Mob Tried to Destroy My Life as a Poet by Joseph Massey

Greg Ellis reads A MeToo Mob Tried to Destroy My Life as a Poet, Joseph Massey’s harrowing account of being targeted by a Social Justice outrage mob. It was published in Quillette on 28th June 2019.

Quillette / Joseph Massey

11 Jul 2019 · 1 min read