Review - Quillette

Crisis Management

Martin Wolf’s new book is a work of sombre brilliance, but it fails to grapple effectively with the postliberal analysis of what ails liberal democracies.

John Lloyd

27 Mar 2023 · 9 min read

A Universe of Fizzled Stars

Is failure to succeed as bad as the fall from success?

Thomas Larson

17 Mar 2023 · 11 min read

Heavy Lifting

Natalia Mehlman Petrzela’s ‘Fit Nation’ offers a fascinating but frustratingly selective history of America’s physical fitness obsession.

Joe Lombardo

7 Mar 2023 · 9 min read

Marching Backwards

Mary Harrington’s proposed solution to the excesses of modern feminism is an overcorrection.

Marilyn Simon

3 Mar 2023 · 13 min read

Heidegger’s Downfall

Richard Wolin’s reappraisal of Martin Heidegger offers both original contributions and a synthesis of critical scholarship. The result is a timely work of enduring importance.

Jeffrey Herf

22 Feb 2023 · 18 min read

The Liberal Internationalist

A fine new book argues that the contemporary Left could learn a lot from the life and work of the late polemicist Christopher Hitchens.

Michael J. Totten

20 Feb 2023 · 18 min read

Colonialism and Its Discontents

Oxford ethicist Nigel Biggar’s controversial reassessment of Britain’s imperial record has reignited an important academic quarrel over the meaning and legacy of empire.

John Lloyd

6 Feb 2023 · 16 min read

The Inner Life of Transcendent Genius

In ‘The Philosophy of Modern Song,’ Dylan contemplates himself and the art form of which he is the acknowledged master.

Benjamin Kerstein

13 Jan 2023 · 12 min read

America’s Forgotten Crisis

A terrific new account of America’s social and political turmoil during the 1910s and ’20s provides some much-needed perspective on the problems afflicting the country today.

Michael J. Totten

17 Dec 2022 · 13 min read

How Do They Know This?

An informative and apolitical new book reminds us that statistics are not always what they seem.

Christopher J. Snowdon

8 Dec 2022 · 5 min read

Islamist Terror; Journalistic Error

In a valuable new book, historian Richard Landes argues that Western reporting on the Second Palestinian Intifada helped to seed a misunderstanding of terrorism.

Jeffrey Herf

2 Dec 2022 · 19 min read