Gender Ideology’s True Believers
I know a fair bit about cults. When I was 19, I joined a small, insular, high-control Trotskyist organization, defying dear friends who...
Read MoreIsrael’s Perilous Moment, Then and Now
A review of Israel’s Moment: International Support for and Opposition to Establishing the Jewish State, 1945–1949 by Jeffrey Herf,...
Read MoreHow We Can Get Clean Energy—What Needs to Be Done?
Editor's note: this is the third in a three-part series on how we can get clean energy. Part I explains the relationship between Fuel...
Read MoreConfessions of a Social-Justice Meme Maker
When the pandemic struck in March 2020, I was working out of a Los Angeles apartment alongside my two cats, illustrating children’s books...
Read MoreThe End of War Poetry
I have been “helping” my son revise for his GCSE English of late—he might take issue with that description but that was my intention—and...
Read MoreHofstadter’s Paranoid Style Revisited
Roughly a quarter of Republican voters in the United States believe that “elitists” in government, the media, and Hollywood are a cabal of...
Read MoreDirect Instruction Works. So Why Is It Controversial?
In 2016, I was sitting in the classroom of a Melbourne school as Dr. Kerry Hempenstall described the early stages of a reading program. He...
Read MoreWeekly Roundup and an Interview with Michael Shellenberger
Dear Quilletters, I hope you've had a great week and aren't too affected by the wild behaviour of the stock market. As always,...
Read MoreThe White House’s Specious Gender Manifesto
On March 31st, Joe Biden’s White House issued a lengthy “fact sheet” claiming that science has spoken in favour of puberty-blocking...
Read MoreThe Hard Left and Populist Right Agree on All the Wrong Things
A time-traveller or alien dropped into the West’s “culture war” might be forgiven for wondering if it was all intended as a big joke....
Read MoreCan California Change?—An Interview with Michael Shellenberger
In October 2021, environmentalist activist and author Michael Shellenberger published his bestselling book San Fransicko: Why Progressives...
Read MoreArt Is Not Therapy
I have recently found myself pursued across the digital sphere by advertisements and acclaim for two new Hollywood films, Turning Red and...
Read MoreCanada’s Racial Balkanization
Far from Toronto’s downtown, in the land of subdivisions, six-lane traffic, and strip malls around Lawrence Ave. East and Bellamy Rd.,...
Read MoreWe Need to Talk About Abortion
There was a political and legal earthquake in the United States this week, in the form of a leaked draft of a majority opinion of the...
Read MoreIs Moral Expertise Possible?—A Roundtable
Editor's note: Quillette asked two psychologists and two philosophers to reflect and comment on the possibility of attaining moral...
Read MoreWhat Explains Women's Fascination With BDSM Fiction?
Every generation or so (i.e., roughly every 25 years) a woman (it’s always a woman) writes a book about kinky sex—and a very specific type...
Read MoreWhen Disagreement Becomes Trauma
On April 22nd, the University of British Columbia released its Anti-Racism and Inclusive Excellence Task Force report, which contains 54...
Read MoreQuillette Podcast #189: How Elon Musk Can Promote Free Speech—Without Turning Twitter Into One Big ‘Dumpster Fire’
Veteran technology expert Jim Rutt tells Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay about the hard lessons he’s learned over four decades of...
Read MoreThe Limits of Narrative
“Lots of color and make it punchy.” As a journalist I hear this kind of thing a lot from editors, and it’s not necessarily bad advice. It...
Read MoreWeekly Roundup + Invitation to the Quillette Social
Dear Quilletters, Thanks to everyone who has already bought tickets to our Quillette Social event in Sydney. We have already almost sold...
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