Quillette Narrated

The cold allows me to feel alive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We have ignored, enabled, downplayed, and pandered to vicious antisemitism for too long. The victims of the Bondi massacre paid the price. By Iona Italia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The massacre at Bondi Beach was shocking—but after years of denial and equivocation about antisemitism, it was inevitable. By Jack Pinczewski Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Generative AI, disinformation, and the dangerous temptation of benevolent censorship. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Modern trans activists reframed transsexualism/transgenderism as a political problem rather than a clinical problem. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

While the nuclear breakout clock ticks, time may also be expiring on the Ayatollah regime’s grip on the region. The two countdowns are interconnected. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Evidence suggests that today’s common yoga practices were inspired by a popular 1924 Danish gymnastics manual. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Criminal-justice reformers like to say that it is better to be ‘smart on crime’ than ‘tough on crime.’ But sometimes being tough is the smart choice. By ⁠Andrew Bushnell⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Easy Rider is an important movie—much more important than a simple measure of its quality would suggest—which is probably why the American Film Institute, among others, continues to rate it so highly. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

⁠Jukka Savolainen⁠ 's article "The Murder of Iryna Zarutska — Why did this particular crime cut through the daily background noise of American violence?" on Quillette explores the reasons behind the heightened attention the murder of Iryna Zarutska received in conservative circles and the muted response from mainstream media. Iryna Zarutska, a young Ukrainian refugee, was killed in Charlotte, Nort...

The Voyage of the Beagle is a literary masterpiece, as well as a scientific one. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The list of violent criminals who imagine they were ‘born in the wrong body’ is growing. By Forest Romm, Kevin Waldman Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The situation of South African “whites” is worse than Donald Trump's critics are willing to acknowledge. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

2022 marked the bicentennial of the pseudonym’s transformation from literary dabbler into one of the greatest novelists of the modern age. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The ideological capture of college writing programs has ushered in an age of didactic, anodyne, and tedious books. By ⁠Adam Szetela⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Healthcare for menopause and perimenopause is the single most patient-betraying area of medicine—but it has plenty of company. By Amy Alkon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The climate activist’s simplistic slogans and hectoring style proved effective when she was still a child. But now that she’s an adult, the act is losing its shine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Jewish state has secured its borders, recovered all living hostages, and put its enemies on notice as to what awaits them if they attempt a reprise of 7 October. By ⁠The Quillette Editorial Board⁠. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Amir and I had very different ideas about which side had committed a ‘genocide.’ But it didn’t stop us from being civil. By David Christopher Kaufman. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Greta Thunberg’s sailing trip to Gaza was a confused piece of activist theatre of a kind that is sadly very much in vogue. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Disney’s awful new Snow White adaptation fails to recreate or even understand the story it is trying to tell. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

My sense is that Nietzsche is best understood as a radical individualist; one who insists passionately that our duty in life is to become what we are. But what kind of person is that? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When we construe normal feeling as illness, we offer people an understanding of themselves as disordered. This encourages people to be stuck in a limiting narrative. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Polygamy is a criminal offense throughout the Western world. Would making it legal be progress? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Like Miller, Orwell didn’t just focus on the “dirty-handkerchief side of life”—he repeatedly confessed to the dirty-handkerchief side of his own personality. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices