Social Commentary - Quillette

“Not Necessarily Nice Things” Uncomfortable Truths in Succession

We live in a world where the super-rich are often miserable. Part of the reason for this is that the heirs and heiresses to enormous fortunes amassed by their parents sometimes do very little with their own lives.

Scott Newman

22 Jan 2022 · 8 min read

Weekly Roundup and a Legal Scholar's Response to the Rittenhouse Trial

Sometimes, what we are taught, and then either by mistake or by force, integrate into our thinking, is contrary to the conditions of human life.

Claire Lehmann

24 Nov 2021 · 7 min read

The Narrative and Its Discontents

This mindset is nigh-incomprehensible to people of The Narrative who are used to being guided by a single source of truth enforced by social consensus.

Jacob Falkovich

16 Feb 2021 · 9 min read

In Search of Utopia for Lobsters Like Us

We must therefore be wary of social or political arrangements that offer us equality of status, without the corresponding burden of self-reflection and improvement.

Oliver Waters

1 Apr 2018 · 12 min read