It’s the Narrative, Stupid! Every time there is a shooting, everybody turns to their narrative. We all want our stories to be vindicated, and we are perplexed if the expected pattern does not emerge. Fred Litwin 18 Jul 2024 · 7 min read
A Wretched Situation The failure of the Secret Service to provide adequate protection to a standard-bearer for one of the major parties is the latest example of American breakdown. Brian Stewart 16 Jul 2024 · 6 min read
Nationalist Self-Hatred The culture war alone cannot explain the civic rot on the populist Right. Matt Johnson 12 Mar 2024 · 18 min read
Cosmopolis or Bust? In order to function, a cosmopolis must embrace both toleration and the rule of law. Joel Kotkin 5 Mar 2024 · 10 min read
Rediscovering the Meaning of Diversity: Lessons from Generation X Gen X is young enough to take civil rights and integration for granted—but old enough to appreciate how much progress America has made Monica Harris 28 Feb 2024 · 11 min read
A Bus Tour of American Dystopia Life on Dallas’ mass-transit system provides a window into the misery endured by America’s abandoned underclass. Sam Forster 26 Feb 2024 · 7 min read
Chaos at the End of History Even in rights-based and law-bound democratic societies, people tend to find new things to struggle over. Matt Johnson 12 Feb 2024 · 28 min read
From Panic to Prudence Lessons from past financial crises. Robert F. Bruner 16 Mar 2023 · 10 min read
Should the GOP Continue to Embrace Populism? Two Responses Quillette readers Joe Benning and Charles N.W. Keckler give their responses. Quillette 21 Sep 2022 · 8 min read
The Real Challenges Facing Public Education Critical Race Theory is a distraction and 'equity' is just a buzzword. A new book by an award-winning teacher argues that the real challenges facing public education go much deeper than political ideology. Shane Trotter 1 Aug 2022 · 10 min read
An Australian Perspective on Abortion The closest example of a counterfactual to Roe v. Wade is Australia, where there is a federal system with no unifying law or ruling concerning abortion. Dara Macdonald 8 Jul 2022 · 11 min read
Dear Americans: Your Politics Don’t Have to Be This Toxic America’s narrowing two-party system is poisoning the greatest democracy in the world. Stephan Jensen 6 Jul 2022 · 18 min read
Science and Civil Liberties: The Lost ACLU Lecture of Carl Sagan Around 1987, Sagan gave an uncannily prescient lecture to the Illinois state chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union. Steven Pinker / Harvey Silverglate 1 Jul 2022 · 15 min read
The White House’s Specious Gender Manifesto The White House is claiming that the debate about childhood gender medicine is settled—even as numerous international experts are coming forward to say it‘s not. Bernard Lane 13 May 2022 · 18 min read
