After Trump’s Iran Decision
The real dilemma is not between war and negotiation. It is between episodic action and sustained architecture.
Allen Zeesman
· 6 min read
Reader Favourites
A collection of 82 posts
Islamism: Shooting the Messenger
The British establishment tends to deflect attention from the dangers of Islamism by attempting to silence those who point them out.
John Aziz
· 8 min read
The End of Australian Exceptionalism
The surge in support for Australia’s populist right-wing party One Nation suggests that immigration restrictionism has become increasingly popular with voters: a political trajectory that echoes that of many other Western nations.
Eric Kaufmann
· 9 min read
Ezra Klein’s Feeble Liberalism
Liberals must act aggressively to uphold the values of free society.
Brian Stewart
· 10 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
Silence on Sudan
In Sudan, a civil war involving Arab supremacists backed by the UAE has left as many as 400,000 dead and displaced twelve million. The silence on campus is deafening.
Steven Strauss
· 7 min read
The End of the Middlebrow Movie
Middlebrow movies weren’t just two-hour escape pods, they functioned as a civic glue, a source of shared language, cross-generational references, and indeed, contemporary American myth.
Harrison Kass
· 7 min read
The Price of the Epstein Frenzy
Press-led hysteria and institutional cowardice are inflicting needless damage on higher education.
Lawrence M. Krauss
· 10 min read
Heir Jordan
Aaron Magid has written a timely biography of a consequential monarch.
Michael M. Rosen
· 8 min read
Editors’ Choice 2025
Quillette’s editors choose their favourite essays of the year.
The Quillette Editorial Board
· 10 min read
They Don’t Believe It Either
The “Gaza genocide” calumny has become the Left’s equivalent of the “stolen election” hoax on the American Right—a baseless accusation that signals ideological allegiance precisely because it defies logic and evidence.
Maarten Boudry
· 13 min read
An Uneasy Peace
Trump’s peace plan brings the hostages home and halts fighting in Gaza, but Hamas’s refusal to disarm and Israeli concerns about Palestinian statehood threaten the deal’s long-term survival.
Benny Morris
· 15 min read
The Problem with Alt. Media
What the Hughes/Smith debate tells us about the podcast era.
Matt Johnson
· 14 min read
The Melbourne Crimewave
Criminal-justice reformers like to say that it is better to be ‘smart on crime’ than ‘tough on crime.’ But sometimes being tough is the smart choice.
Andrew Bushnell
· 10 min read
The Genocide Libel
A new report from the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies separates verifiable facts from politically motivated fiction in Gaza.
Andrew Fox
· 24 min read