United States - Quillette

Nationalist Self-Hatred

The culture war alone cannot explain the civic rot on the populist Right.

Matt Johnson

12 Mar 2024 · 17 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 · 10 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 · 7 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 · 9 min read

Assault in Alabama

Revisiting the attack on Nat King Cole.

Thomas Doherty

22 Jul 2022 · 9 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 and Harvey Silverglate

1 Jul 2022 · 14 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 · 17 min read

Sandinista! The US Left and Nicaragua

However, recent events in Nicaragua have caused stirrings of unease among many of Ortega's previously loyal US supporters, and in some cases, strident criticism.

Ronald Radosh

27 Sep 2021 · 18 min read

America the Indispensable

As the US was convulsed by the Floyd protests and violence in 2020, the Chinese foreign minister had the gall to denounce the “systemic and persistent existence” of repression of “people of color.”