A collection of 113 posts
In a recent speech delivered at the University of Western Ontario Faculty of Law, a Quillette editor describes lessons he learned while investigating the school’s teachers college.
Last week’s TED Talks in Vancouver featured dozens of brilliant speakers. But the earnest belief that big new ideas can save humanity from itself now feels painfully dated.
The campaign to remove Hamas from the UK’s list of proscribed organisations is not about defending free speech or political dissent. It is about legitimising jihadist warmongering.
Its ability to churn out plausible sounding explanations for historical and social phenomena is part of Marxism’s core appeal. But its grand theoretical framework simply does not hold up.
How the battle for the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act was fought, won, and nearly lost again.
My best friend had a psychotic break—our crisscrossing journeys through facts and fictions in thirteen chapters.
Arguments that patriarchy exists in the West today are largely dependent on reinventions of the concept that would be better dispensed with.
The history of Soviet totalitarianism is now being rewritten.
This week’s announcement that Saturn has 274 officially recognised ‘moons’ raises the question of whether that word needs a more restrictive definition.
Alexandre Dumas’s novel is by turns an adventure story, a paean to bourgeois values, and a Greek epic. No wonder it continues to fascinate.
The current approach to energy and environmental policy isn’t just unsustainable—it has put us on a collision course with reality.
Peter Beinart has responded to the 7 October massacre and subsequent Gaza war with a deeply duplicitous book.
Are we going to defend liberty, openness, and democracy, or are we going to allow radical theocrats and their ideological allies to try to crush our hard-won freedoms?
Remembering Don Symons (1942–2024).
What Karl Popper’s classic can teach us about the threats facing democracies today.