Purity, Profit, and Politics
How journalism exchanged the duty to inform for an ethic of customer satisfaction.
Steve Salerno
· 22 min read
Reader Favourites
A collection of 69 posts
Glamourising Violence at Glastonbury
Bob Vylan’s “death to the IDF” chants at Glastonbury reveal how Britain’s economic despair has radicalised a generation and threatens to revive ancient hatreds.
John Aziz
· 8 min read
It Should Never Have Come to This
If we hadn’t spent so long pretending that ‘trans women are women,’ the growing political movement to align our laws with biological reality wouldn’t have been necessary.
Robert Wintemute
· 16 min read
Is the University Of Austin Betraying Its Founding Principles?
Created as a haven for free thinkers, UATX was the last place where I’d expected to encounter ideological litmus tests.
Ellie Avishai
· 15 min read
Israel’s Perfect Failure
Israeli intelligence and the Hamas attack on 7 October 2023.
Uri Bar-Joseph
· 19 min read
Against the Tyranny of Opinionated Ignorance
Let us not confuse the freedom to speak with the freedom to mislead.
Yuki Zeman
· 5 min read
A Cartoonish View of History
Joe Sacco’s graphic works provide vivid and moving depictions of the terrible suffering in the Strip. But his accounts of the causes of that suffering are simplistic and one-sided in the extreme.
Benny Morris
· 18 min read
When Good Academics Do Bad Things
In a recent speech delivered at the University of Western Ontario Faculty of Law, a Quillette editor describes lessons he learned while investigating the school’s teachers college.
Jonathan Kay
· 17 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
America’s Grief Cycle: The Negotiation Phase
How Trump’s tariffs and foreign policy signal the third phase of US decline on the world stage.
Andrew Roberts
· 7 min read
What’s So Terrible About Trade Deficits Anyway?
Populist rhetoric and the hidden costs of economic illiteracy.
Robert Johnson
· 7 min read
If ‘Woke’ Puritanism Is the Disease, Trump’s Amoral Populism Isn’t the Cure
Valid critiques of progressive moralism have devolved into an embrace of anything-goes strongman rule.
Eric Kaufmann
· 7 min read
The Nonsense of the “Tariff Men”
President Trump’s protectionist policies are erratic, ill-defined, and incoherent.
Phillip W. Magness
· 15 min read
Jihadism Is the Problem
The media’s obsessive focus on the Israel–Palestine conflict obscures the broader picture of the ubiquity of jihadism in the Middle East, and the crucial role it plays in stoking and perpetuating turmoil and strife.
John Aziz
· 8 min read
The Fugitive Mind
My best friend had a psychotic break—our crisscrossing journeys through facts and fictions in thirteen chapters.
Joan Maltese
· 51 min read