Why Soccer Is Boring
How the beautiful game convinced the world that boredom is sophistication.
Robert Lynch
· 10 min read
Psychology
A collection of 113 posts
The Mask That Made Me
Thirty years as a high-functioning neurodivergent project manager.
Jason Sylvester
· 7 min read
Playing Gad
Gad Saad’s new book tackles an interesting topic. Unfortunately, the author’s narcissistic ramblings make it almost impossible to read.
Ben Sixsmith
· 8 min read
Criminal Research
European jurists should not seek to arbitrate controversial matters best settled by science.
Rosalind Arden
· 14 min read
The Soft Disinformation Contagion
How we learned to reason poorly with accurate data.
Jorge Iniesta Cases
· 7 min read
Podcast #326: Catching a Serial Killer
Managing Editor Iona Italia speaks with Maureen Callahan about her book "American Predator", which chronicles the crimes of serial killer Israel Keyes.
Quillette, Iona Italia
· 1 min read
The Gender Identity Debate
A selection of Quillette essays and interviews examining the cultural, scientific, and legal dimensions of gender identity.
Quillette
· 7 min read
The New Medievals
The bones of our conspiracies haven’t changed, though their details are different.
Claire Lehmann
· 7 min read
No, You Don’t Have a Disorder, You Have Feelings
When we construe normal feeling as illness, we offer people an understanding of themselves as disordered. This encourages people to be stuck in a limiting narrative.
Lisa Marchiano
· 8 min read
Pride and Prejudice
The self-esteem movements that once deranged America’s school curricula have since deranged the realm of identity activism.
Steve Salerno
· 16 min read
Leaving the Woke Cult with Anthony Rispo | Quillette Cetera Ep. 52
Heterodox psychology grad Anthony Rispo joins Zoe Booth to unpack leaving woke ideology and the psychology behind identity, conformity, and belief.
Zoe Sankey
· 27 min read
The Truth About Narcissistic Personality Disorder with Giancarlo Dimaggio | Quillette Cetera Ep. 47
A leading expert in narcissism explains why it’s so often misunderstood—and why narcissists deserve more empathy, not armchair diagnosis on social media.
Zoe Sankey
· 20 min read
What Adolescence Gets Wrong
Adolescence is a moving work of art but a misleading representation of the challenges facing British boys.
Ari David Blaff
· 8 min read
Stoicism: A Life-Changing Philosophy
Stoicism is a workout that builds emotional strength, a caulking of the timbers to enable us to weather the coming storms—a preparation we make precisely because the ocean voyage is so rewarding.
Iona Italia
· 23 min read
Freud’s Best Theory
While Freud mooted various bizarre theories that haven’t stood the test of time, the best of his thinking can help us better understand ourselves, others, and our world.
Andrew Hartz
· 9 min read