Quillette Narrated

A nuclear engineer reviews the blockbuster film. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Like it or not, hidden within those influential texts are the bizarre jargon and lunatic assertions of a mendacious madman. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The assassination of Charlie Kirk shows how Discord, memes, and “online brainrot” may motivate disaffected youth like Tyler Robinson more than ideology. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The self-esteem movements that once deranged America’s school curricula have since deranged the realm of identity activism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Gaza aid-site controversy and a crisis of journalism by Gary Geipel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In his 2000 memoir A Personal Odyssey, Sowell recounts a parable that was read to him as a young boy and which he never forgot. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Fertility decline is not merely a demographic curiosity—it is a structural challenge with civilisational implications. So why are people so reluctant to take it seriously? By Andrew Glover Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

By rejecting any universally applicable standards of reason, it destroys the possibility of true conversation, of learning from and compromising with each other. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Zohran Mamdani’s father Mahmood is a postnationalist who advocates the dissolution of all nation states, which he views as intrinsically violent and unjust. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In his deliberately archaic new rendition of Homer’s epic, Jeffrey Duban takes a defiant stand against the modernisation of classical literature in defence of a disappearing tradition. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In a new book, Joan Smith critically examines the historical mistreatment of Ancient Rome’s leading women—including Emperor Augustus’ daughter Julia, who was denounced as a nymphomaniac and cast into exile. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Australian security services have confirmed that Iran orchestrated antisemitic attacks in Sydney and Melbourne. This is not the first time leftist causes have been hijacked by Islamists. It is time we confronted this danger. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Charlotte Allen examines how Philip Roth biographer Blake Bailey's sexual misconduct allegations led to both men being cancelled and explores the broader cultural shift from the sexual liberation of the 1960s to #MeToo's scrutiny of male literary figures and their treatment of women. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Those fighting for social change today would do well to heed Bayard Rustin’s advice about how to build sustainable and effective political movements. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is a story of some of the greatest findings in modern research, and of the dismal narrow-mindedness and motivated reasoning displayed by scholars who ought to know better. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Amid literary subcultures, competition has always been fierce and unrelenting and has become even more so in our age of elite overproduction. On social media, these embittered rivalries play out in public amid a chorus of backbiting worthy of Chekhov. Robert Huddleston Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Eight decades later, the issues raised by the Russell case—the rights to free speech and academic freedom—have still not been settled. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The problem here is not a subset of Islamic thought, but the fundamentals of Islam itself. By Obaid Omer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Once seen as a model of progressive drug policy, San Francisco now stands as a morbid example of how that approach has gone astray. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In 2020, a Canadian university tore up its psychology department in search of a non-existent network of sexual predators. Documents obtained by Quillette reveal how administrators allowed it to happen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nurturing an alternative power structure in this kind of politically stunted society will be the work of generations. It can’t be summoned into existence by Western leaders seeking to appease domestic constituencies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Few writers in our time were more committed to the novel or had more idealism about the heights the form could scale. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A tribute to the man who helped to revolutionise modern rock music and reality TV. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Whatever really happened between Zhang and Peng, the truth is that they were both already victims, having been raised in a society that completely denies the importance of the individual. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As a dissident Iranian, I support Israel’s efforts to weaken the Ayatollahs’ regime. I’m not alone in this. By Armin Navabi. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices