A History of Feminist Antisemitism
The story of how activists and academics exchanged the struggle for universal female improvement for a politics of division and hatred.
Kara Jesella
· 21 min read
Narrated
A collection of 67 posts
Apostles of Appeasement
A short history of phoney peace groups and their fellow travellers.
Oscar Clarke
· 10 min read
The Return of the Progressive Atrocity
It is the responsibility of Western activists to know who and what they support, and to separate themselves—openly and decisively—from programs and regimes that are predicated on violence and repression.
Susie Linfield
· 21 min read
History Matters
A restoration of history, in all its complexity, is critical to escaping the polarized, rigid, and often insane political environment we now inhabit.
Joel Kotkin
· 16 min read
For a Time, a Pit Bull Gave Me Back My Son
If I couldn’t openly love him, I would love what he loved.
Steve Salerno
· 12 min read
Ending the Hunger Games
New pharmaceuticals appear to offer a genuine solution to the problem of excess appetite, that uncontrollable urge to eat more than we need to that keeps so many of us fat.
Iona Italia
· 25 min read
Embracing the Passion and Perfection of Chess
While claims of skill transfer may be overblown, there is still benefit to be had in the tiny, claustrophobic world of the game.
Iona Italia
· 12 min read
Our New, Subscription-Based World
Like Substack, Quillette is hoping to provide readers with more engagement, and less anger.
The Quillette Editorial Board
· 8 min read
Don’t Let Cancellation Become Banal
Something terrible happens when art can’t reach audiences.
Nina Paley
· 5 min read
Hormones First. Research Later
A Review of Hannah Barnes’s ‘Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock’s Gender Service for Children’
Bernard Lane
· 13 min read
A Conspiracy Theory of Connotations
The obsessive policing of language in the name of progress relies on magical thinking.
Oliver Traldi
· 7 min read
Roald Dahl and the Ethics of Art
The urge to censor is based on a misunderstanding of what makes literature valuable.
Iona Italia
· 11 min read
Justice in Stockholm
Thirty-four years after the massacre of political prisoners in Iran, the conviction of Hamid Noury in Sweden has been a victory for accountability and for the truth.
Roya Hakakian
· 19 min read
America’s Forgotten Crisis
A terrific new account of America’s social and political turmoil during the 1910s and ’20s provides some much-needed perspective on the problems afflicting the country today.
Michael J. Totten
· 14 min read
Serfing the Future?
Land ownership has shaped civilizations from their beginnings, with a constant interplay between great powers—the aristocracy, the state, the Church, the emperor—and those below them. History has oscillated between periods of greater dispersion of ownership, and those that favored greater concentration. Today, we live in an era of
Joel Kotkin
· 11 min read