Politics - Quillette (Page 2)

Justice in Stockholm

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.

Roya Hakakian

7 Feb 2023 · 19 min read

Beijing in Retreat

A plunging birthrate, deepening socioeconomic divisions, and the chaos produced by China’s failed Zero-COVID policy prove that Xi Jinping and the Party do not have the measure of the nation.

Aaron Sarin

28 Jan 2023 · 11 min read

Child Welfare and the Cash Panacea

Poverty is not the cause of abuse and neglect.

Naomi Schaefer Riley

24 Jan 2023 · 6 min read

Fables of the Deconstruction

Rejection may sting. But it’s not the same as being ripped off.

George Case

10 Jan 2023 · 7 min read

Democracy’s Trenches

The idea that the war in Ukraine is not our business is seductive but dangerously mistaken.

John Lloyd

4 Jan 2023 · 11 min read

Rebalancing the Gender Narrative

Richard Reeves’s new book is a valuable contribution to a gender debate stuck on outdated axioms.

Ari David Blaff

30 Dec 2022 · 6 min read

Politics and the English Language, 2023

The continued relevance of George Orwell’s landmark 1946 essay.

George Case

28 Dec 2022 · 8 min read

On Conservative Socialism

Far from being a phantom in the imaginations of a handful of writers and scholars, conservative socialism is a real phenomenon.

Seamus Flaherty

27 Dec 2022 · 16 min read

Prisoners of Ideology

A more reasoned politics is critical to the future of society.

Joel Kotkin

22 Dec 2022 · 13 min read

The White Paper Revolution

China’s population has learned that its voice has real power.

Aaron Sarin

21 Dec 2022 · 13 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.