Obituary - Quillette

Frans de Waal (29 October 1948 – 14 March 2024) Alamy

Of Monkeys and Men

The Extraordinary Life and Work of Frans de Waal

Lawrence M. Krauss

23 Mar 2024 · 7 min read

Alexei Navalny 1976–2024

The life and death of a complex and courageous dissident.

John Lloyd

23 Feb 2024 · 14 min read

Robert Kemp Adair (1924–2020)—Notes on a Friendship

Reflections on the life and work of a superb scientist, for whom integrity and rigor were paramount.

Geoffrey C. Kabat

12 Jan 2024 · 19 min read

In Memoriam, 2023

A tribute to three pop-fiction authors who passed away this year.

Kevin Mims

19 Dec 2023 · 14 min read

In Memoriam

A tribute to five pop fiction writers we lost in 2022.

Kevin Mims

20 Dec 2022 · 12 min read

The thing about PJ O’Rourke, who passed away on Tuesday at the age of 74, was that everyone wanted to be around him. By “everyone,” I don’t just mean the right-wingers I hang out with, most of whom share PJ’s classical-liberal politics, but also neoconservatives like Bill

Charles Murray

16 Feb 2022 · 2 min read

Farewell, Alex Trebek

On Friday, November 6th, between 1 and 2pm Pacific Daylight Time, I participated in an audition for the TV game-show Jeopardy!. Normally auditions are conducted in person at various regional locations around the US. As a Northern Californian, I should have been attending a live audition in San Francisco. But

Kevin Mims

13 Nov 2020 · 14 min read

On Remembrance Day, Celebrating Two Canadian Prisoners Who Took Down an Entire Shipyard

The need for secrecy was therefore paramount. But as he began to plot his sabotage, Clark realized he’d need at least one trusted accomplice.

George MacDonell

11 Nov 2020 · 10 min read

R.M. Vaughan (1965–2020): A Beautiful Mind Silently Extinguished in a Time of Fear

We were Oscar Wilde’s great-grand-nephews, dandy aesthetes obsessed as much with the curl of our hair as with art or politics.

Sky Gilbert

6 Nov 2020 · 8 min read

Remembering My Friend Peter Beard

Peter is no longer here to tell us the truth of the matter.

Geoffrey Clarfield

28 May 2020 · 8 min read

Death of an Old-Fashioned Clown

Willard was a kind of Holy Fool even among fools.

Simon Evans

21 May 2020 · 7 min read

So Here's to You, Buck Henry

Most of us are distant spectators to the roped-off paintings that line the museums inside our aesthetic imaginations. Some of the pieces have been removed; others don’t have appropriate labels.

Art Tavana

28 Jan 2020 · 10 min read

Remembering Roger Scruton, Defender of Reason in a World of Postmodern Jackals

Scruton did not entertain petty prejudices, and had no wish to tell anyone how to live or who to love.

Barbara Kay

14 Jan 2020 · 8 min read

The Million-Petalled Flower

He had the gift of producing them by inverting or adapting cliché to give it new life.

Andrew Gleeson

4 Dec 2019 · 15 min read

On the Passing of Oberlin Plaintiff David Gibson

David Gibson has not lived to see the end of this distressing saga. In late 2018, he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and, on November 16 of this year, he passed away aged 65.

Daniel McGraw

2 Dec 2019 · 11 min read

Of Monkeys and Men

Alexei Navalny 1976–2024

Robert Kemp Adair (1924–2020)—Notes on a Friendship

In Memoriam, 2023

In Memoriam

PJ O’Rourke—A Tribute

Farewell, Alex Trebek

On Remembrance Day, Celebrating Two Canadian Prisoners Who Took Down an Entire Shipyard

R.M. Vaughan (1965–2020): A Beautiful Mind Silently Extinguished in a Time of Fear

Remembering My Friend Peter Beard

Death of an Old-Fashioned Clown

So Here's to You, Buck Henry

Remembering Roger Scruton, Defender of Reason in a World of Postmodern Jackals

The Million-Petalled Flower

On the Passing of Oberlin Plaintiff David Gibson