Hamas Should Never Be Decriminalised
The campaign to remove Hamas from the UK’s list of proscribed organisations is not about defending free speech or political dissent. It is about legitimising jihadist warmongering.
Apr 17, 2025•12 min
Quillette Narrated
Quillette
Narrated versions of selected Quillette essays.
Episodes
The Wrongful Exoneration of Adnan Syed Part II: The Legal and Media Circus
Adnan Syed would never have been released had ‘Serial’ not been made. Advocacy journalism must be treated with caution.
Apr 17, 2025•1 hr 35 min
'The Wrongful Exoneration of Adnan Syed Part I: A Straightforward Murder Case' by Andrew Hammel
A serious reexamination of this case must begin by setting out the evidence that led the jury to convict.
Apr 17, 2025•1 hr 17 min
Does TED Still Make Sense?
Last week’s TED Talks in Vancouver featured dozens of brilliant speakers. But the earnest belief that big new ideas can save humanity from itself now feels painfully dated.
Apr 17, 2025•16 min
Revisiting ‘Wake in Fright’, A Peculiarly Australian Kind of Hell
Five decades after its release, Wake in Fright remains a brutally captivating reminder that modernity is just a thin veneer over the darker recesses of the human heart.
Apr 16, 2025•26 min
Australia's Population Ponzi Scheme
The environmental havoc is justified as needed for the economy, but the evidence does not support this claim.
Apr 15, 2025•6 min
Marxism: The Idea That Refuses to Die
Its ability to churn out such plausible sounding explanations for historical and social phenomena is part of Marxism’s core appeal. But its grand theoretical framework simply does not hold up.
Apr 11, 2025•22 min
Jihadism Is the Problem
The media’s obsessive focus on the Israel–Palestine conflict obscures the broader picture of the ubiquity of jihadism in the Middle East, and the crucial role it plays in stoking and perpetuating turmoil and strife.
Mar 31, 2025•13 min
The Fugitive Mind
My best friend had a psychotic break—our criss-crossing journeys through facts and fictions in thirteen chapters.
Mar 27, 2025•1 hr 27 min
How to Tell if You’re Living in a Patriarchy
Arguments that patriarchy exists in the West today are largely dependent on reinventions of the concept that would be better dispensed with.
Mar 27, 2025•26 min
The Amityville Horror—A 50-Year Old Lie That Won’t Die by Kevin Mims
Jay Anson’s haunted-house yarn was a highly lucrative hoax, but it struck a popular chord amid the financial precarity of 1970s America.
Mar 27, 2025•41 min
The Open Society and Its New Enemies
What Karl Popper’s classic can teach us about the threats facing democracies today.
Mar 26, 2025•50 min
Against the Death Penalty
The state should not assume the right to end the lives of its citizens at will.
Mar 20, 2025•14 min
Stalin, Putin, and the Corruption of History
The history of Soviet totalitarianism is now being rewritten.
Mar 20, 2025•21 min
What 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 of kinky sex.
Mar 17, 2025•6 min
The Tyranny of Fragility
How Alexis de Tocqueville foretold the rise of victimhood culture.
Mar 13, 2025•16 min
Johann Blumenbach: The First Race Scientist
The accepted view is that the scientists of the European Enlightenment got the issue of race badly wrong. In fact, some of them got more right than they are usually given credit for.
Mar 13, 2025•21 min
A Kinder, Gentler Eliminationism
Peter Beinart has responded to the 7 October massacre and subsequent Gaza war with a deeply duplicitous book.
Mar 13, 2025•33 min
Israel–Gaza: A War Between Cousins by John Aziz
Both Israelis and Palestinians have a reasonable claim to live in the Holy Land, based on deep local roots.
Feb 20, 2025•12 min
Demystifying Critical Race Theory by Josh Yuter
Activists on both sides have an incentive to keep Critical Race Theory undefined and ambiguous.
Feb 19, 2025•34 min
Trump and the DEI Counter-Revolution by Thomas F. Powers
Civil-rights law made the DEI world; civil-rights reform can unmake it.
Feb 18, 2025•1 hr 18 min
Universities Are Worth Saving by Jonathan Rauch
Those seeking to address the crisis on America’s campuses should resist the tendency toward nihilism—the temptation to conclude that we need to just (metaphorically) burn it all down.
Feb 18, 2025•25 min
'The Language of Sex' by Marilyn Simon
While we fuss over definitions and pontificate on freedoms, sex and lust and desire and passion and bodies coming together, remain largely undomesticated.
Feb 17, 2025•18 min
'Apostles of Appeasement' by Oscar Clarke
A short history of phoney peace groups and their fellow travellers.
Feb 14, 2025•6 min
Why There Will Not Be a Beige Future by Razib Khan
Skin colour, genetics, race, and racism.
Feb 11, 2025•9 min
The 100 Million Killed Under Communist Regimes Matter by Razib Khan
The death toll under Communist regimes is of incredible magnitude. Yet whenever I attack Communism for being an evil ideology, I get a serious number of rebuttals.
Feb 11, 2025•10 min
'Trump and the Academic Cocoon' by Heather Mac Donald
A New York Times op-ed by a Yale historian tries to see universities from the vantage point of an outsider. Instead, it unwittingly illustrates why universities will not self-correct without external intervention.
Feb 10, 2025•20 min
'The Weak Horse' by Brian Stewart
Syria’s crisis demonstrates the importance of power.
Feb 10, 2025•14 min
'Anti-Zionism’s German Roots' by Gerfried Ambrosch
While Islam traditionally treated Jews with contempt, antisemitic conspiracy theories imported from Germany escalated this animosity by vilifying Jews as agents of diabolical evil.
Feb 10, 2025•20 min
'Embracing the Passion and Perfection of Chess' by Iona Italia
While claims of skill transfer may be overblown, there is still benefit to be had in the tiny, claustrophobic world of the game.
Feb 10, 2025•22 min
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