Quillette Narrated

As Michael Jackson's new biopic crosses $790 million at the box office, the allegations against him remain largely unaddressed by mainstream culture. In this long read for Quillette, Andrew Hammel examines the evidence methodically — the police searches at Neverland, the corroborated physical descriptions, the pattern of relationships with boys from vulnerable homes, and the accounts of Wade Robso...

The Enhanced Games handed athletes a boatload of drugs. They still ran slower than high school boys, missed every world record, and proved that steroids can't replace talent plus daily boring work. Written by Steve Magness, a performance coach and the author of Do Hard Things. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Calls to “globalise the intifada” have produced a wave of antisemitic terror and encourage an unending cycle of violence. By ⁠John Aziz⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The hard Left has once again allied itself with Islamists in the belief that they will help achieve its goals, hence repeating the mistake the communists made in 1979, in revolutionary Iran. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tarantino is quintessentially American. He lets us linger and watch Tate in all her Technicolor radiance. He lets us love her. What’s more, he lets her watch and love herself. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Van Morrison turns eighty. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A review of Jason Zengerle's biography of Tucker Carlson, tracing his fall from gifted journalist to antisemitic demagogue. By Graham Daseler. 00:00 — Carlson’s childhood debate (playing Carter vs Reagan) 01:16 — Introduction to Zengerle’s book Hated by All the Right People 01:52 — Lesson: attacking opponents vs defending ideas 02:15 — Early career as a strong, independent conservative writer 03:2...

Aaron Magid's biography examines how Jordan's King Abdullah has navigated 25 years of regional turmoil through Western alliances and survival. Written by Michael M. Rosen Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Henry Kissinger’s policies influenced Cambodia’s fate, but they alone did not cause the rise of the Khmer Rouge. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This presentation is written and narrated by Dr Karleen Gribble, a researcher specialising in maternal and child health with particular expertise in breastfeeding and lactation policy. Dr Gribble argues that the replacement of sex-based language like "women," "mothers," and "breastfeeding" with gender-neutral terms like "pregnant people," "birthing bodies," and "chest feeding" in healthcare repres...

Progressive discourse has become highly adept at identifying oppression, exclusion, and harm. But it is far less capable of understanding the basic conditions of political order. By Roohola Ramezani Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The British establishment tends to deflect attention from the dangers of Islamism by attempting to silence those who point them out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If leading media critics don’t expect much, filmmakers won’t deliver much. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How Margaret Mead’s romanticised account of Samoan life became the founding myth of cultural determinism—and why it endures despite having been thoroughly debunked. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Before Han Solo and Indiana Jones, there was another Harrison Ford, a star of silent cinema. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The article "Who Got the Camera?" by Dilan Esper recalls Los Angeles policing debates in the 1980s-90s: high crime (gangs, drugs, homelessness) versus claims of LAPD brutality under Chief Daryl Gates, who treated policing like war and used extreme tactics. It details the 1991 Rodney King incident: King, a felon intoxicated during a high-speed chase (up to 117 mph), was beaten by four LAPD officers...

A new boxset edits out one of John Lennon’s most controversial songs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tasmania has all the majesty of other windswept high-latitude places, but it has always been less barren, more hospitable, more generous in its beauty. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Napoleon Chagnon documented a society in which violent men enjoyed greater reproductive and marital success. Some of his academic colleagues never forgave him for it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Zohran Mamdani wants to institute “collectivist” governance, but NYC already has a collectivist problem—a coordinated veto system that blocks development and progress. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As radicals, we lived in what I call a paradigm of suspicion, one of the malignant ideas that emerge as a result of intellectual in-breeding. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mishima’s reputation has grown in the new century and today there is more serious interest in his work than ever before. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Bondi terrorist attack reveals how Australia's reluctance to discuss Islamic antisemitism and ideological motivations undermines cohesion. By Alan Davison. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Removal, expulsion, ethnic cleansing, erasure, even genocide. These are the fruits of the idea that the world can be made right again by undoing history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Routinely reviled by contemporary critics as a celebration of misogyny, ‘The Taming of the Shrew’ is among Shakespeare’s most misunderstood plays. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices