A collection of 104 posts
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.
Adnan Syed would never have been released had ‘Serial’ not been made. Advocacy journalism must be treated with caution.
A serious reexamination of this case must begin by setting out the evidence that led the jury to convict.
While claims of skill transfer may be overblown, there is still benefit to be had in the tiny, claustrophobic world of the game.
Like Substack, Quillette is hoping to provide readers with more engagement, and less anger.
Something terrible happens when art can’t reach audiences.
A Review of Hannah Barnes’s ‘Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock’s Gender Service for Children’
The obsessive policing of language in the name of progress relies on magical thinking.
The urge to censor is based on a misunderstanding of what makes literature valuable.
Thirty-four years after the massacre of political prisoners in Iran, the conviction of Hamid Noury in Sweden has been a victory for accountability and for the truth.
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.
What caused L. Ron Hubbard to turn on a discipline he had once accepted?
The idea of an Australian republic is attractive to some, but there's a strong case for a humble head of state.
Two strands of Mill's philosophy were profoundly in conflict.
Every generation or so (i.e., roughly every 25 years) a woman (it’s always a woman) writes a book about kinky sex—and a very specific type of kinky sex.