Review - Quillette (Page 3)

What Even Is ‘Trans’?

A new book on gender leaves no space for gender non-conformity that is not defined as 'trans'

26 Jun 2023 · 7 min read

What Lies Beneath

In ‘The Hidden Spring,’ psychoanalyst Mark Solms offers a theory of consciousness and the causal mechanisms from which it arises.

Sean Welsh

23 Jun 2023 · 13 min read

America Doesn’t Need Regime Change

Patrick Deneen has written a book that reproduces and encourages a form of self-deception that’s pervasive in the United States on the populist Right.

Damon Linker

6 Jun 2023 · 15 min read

The Real Cost of Cheap Labour

Michael Lind's 'Hell to Pay' presents a dire cautionary message to the political establishment.

Sohale Mortazavi

4 Jun 2023 · 9 min read

The Dualism of Duluoz

An eagerly awaited new edition of Gerald Nicosia’s splendid Kerouac biography provides the definitive portrait of a great artist and a profoundly troubled man.

David S. Wills

1 Jun 2023 · 15 min read

A Declaration of Decadence

Mary Jane Rubenstein’s real target in “Astrotopia” is not the corporate space race, but the very ideas of humanism and progress.

Robert Zubrin

30 May 2023 · 6 min read

World War Z

A new book by historian Ian Garner investigates how the war in Ukraine is transforming Russia into a fascist society.

John Lloyd

10 May 2023 · 10 min read

Uncomfortable History

Grappling with Western misdeeds does not require us turn indigenous tribes into pious exemplars of moral instruction.

Christopher J. Ferguson

27 Apr 2023 · 5 min read

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