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"No más Hamas" at the pro-Israel rally in Los Angeles.

Towards a Post-Hamas Future

The events of 7 October did not benefit Palestinians in any way.

John Aziz

7 Oct 2024 · 8 min read

Misinformation Is Bad. Prohibiting It Is Worse

A proposed Australian law aimed at blocking false content would likely be applied selectively—and thereby further erode public trust in mainstream information sources.

The Quillette Editorial Board

29 Sep 2024 · 9 min read

Red child's dress on a wooden cross at night. Kamloops school lit up in red in the background.

Canada’s Faltering ‘Unmarked Graves’ Narrative Goes to Court

When lawyers asked the Law Society of British Columbia to correct the false claim that ‘the bodies of 215 children’ were discovered in Kamloops, the legal regulator accused them of bigotry.

Jonathan Kay

20 Sep 2024 · 11 min read

Tragedy and Half-Truths: A Gaza Diary

Atef Abu Saif’s ‘Don’t Look Left’ provides a vivid account of the horrors of daily life in the Gaza Strip, yet omits to mention Hamas’s role in the war.

Benny Morris

19 Sep 2024 · 15 min read

Detail from Der große deutsche Bauernkrieg (The Great German Peasants’ War), a 1955 painting by Max Lingner (1888–1959).

Where Virtue Meets Terror: A Brief History of Proto-Communism

In a new book on the history of communism, Sean McMeekin traces the movement’s roots to egalitarian creeds embraced throughout history by prophets, philosophers, utopians, and serfs.

Sean McMeekin

10 Sep 2024 · 18 min read

Composite image of Stokely Carmichael speaking; background is a Gaza solidarity encampment at a university

A Stupid Cartoon and the University Ideology

Frantz Fanon, Stokely Carmichael, and the roots of the uproar over Zionism.

Paul Berman

9 Sep 2024 · 41 min read

Totems and Taboos

A cancelled academic has produced a fine new book about the threat posed by progressive pieties.

John Lloyd

6 Aug 2024 · 9 min read

Image of Mridul Wadhwa in a checked sari, sitting in a chair.

Gaslighting Scottish Rape Victims in the Name of ‘Trans Inclusion’

For three years, Edinburgh’s rape-crisis centre was run by a male CEO who lectured sex-assault victims and staff about their ‘prejudice’ against the male body. How was this allowed to happen?