Why Do Men Dominate Chess? FIDE’s new policy governing who can compete in women’s categories highlights the persistent sex imbalance at the game’s elite levels. Carole Hooven 22 Mar 2024 · 27 min read
Stop Dunking on Trump Supporters No one is beyond reach—unless everyone around them refuses to reach out. Julian Adorney 7 Feb 2024 · 9 min read
The Kind of Man Your Mother Warned You About Why women love true crime. Robert King 6 Nov 2023 · 10 min read
Podcast #225: Finding Strength Through Disability Quillette editor and podcast host Iona Italia talks with speaker, DJ, and quadruple amputee Tom Nash about his new book, ‘Hook, Line, and Sinner.’ Quillette 20 Oct 2023 · 2 min read
US Immigration Threatened to Separate Twin Sons Born to Gay Fathers: Quillette Cetera Episode 14 A conversation with twin expert Nancy L. Segal. Zoe Booth / Nancy L. Segal 17 Aug 2023 · 3 min read
Running Amok An empirical analysis of spree killings finds that two distinct patterns emerge. Robert King 27 May 2023 · 8 min read
The Real Challenges Facing Public Education Critical Race Theory is a distraction and 'equity' is just a buzzword. A new book by an award-winning teacher argues that the real challenges facing public education go much deeper than political ideology. Shane Trotter 1 Aug 2022 · 10 min read
When Mental Health Education Makes Us Sick There must be more in our mental health toolkit than the language and mechanisms for self-diagnosis. Clare Rowe 7 Jun 2022 · 8 min read
Anatomy of a Murder On New Year’s Eve 2021 news of my killing began to circulate on Twitter. holy shit this is a murder https://t.co/CwsF0sZ9sZ — Julia Carrie Wong (@juliacarriew) January 1, 2022 I scrolled through scores of posts before I could stop myself, pausing to read replies and retweets. Some Jonathan Gottschall 18 Mar 2022 · 10 min read
PODCAST 110: Psychiatrist Tanveer Ahmed on His New Book In Defence of Shame Quillette Editor-in-Chief Claire Lehmann talks to Dr. Tanveer Ahmed about how we should accept the presence of shame in our lives without succumbing to despair or outrage mobs. Quillette / Tanveer Ahmed 11 Sep 2020 · 1 min read
From Hegemonic to Responsive Masculinity: the Transformative Power of the Provider Role There is little evidence to justify why the provider role has been held in such low regard. Belinda Brown 11 Apr 2019 · 11 min read
Denying the Neuroscience of Sex Differences No one seems to have a problem accepting that, on average, male and female bodies differ in many, many ways. Why is it surprising or unacceptable that this is true for the part of our body that we call “brain”? Larry Cahill 29 Mar 2019 · 11 min read
What Light Does ‘Three Identical Strangers’ Throw on the Nature/Nurture Debate? It seems fitting that twins (1) come in two types, (2) are fascinating at two levels and (3) enhance understanding of human development in two ways. Nancy L. Segal 26 Mar 2019 · 10 min read
The Last Place Men Can Settle Things Like Men Men used to take pride in fighting prowess. Being able to defend yourself and your loved ones was something to celebrate. It was part of your job as a man. David Ley 5 Mar 2019 · 8 min read
How My Toxic Stoicism Helped Me Cope with Brain Cancer One of my sisters commented that I was so calm she thought the doctors must have given me a Valium. Jonathan Church 23 Jan 2019 · 12 min read
