'Tyranny Is Not What It Used to Be' by Brian Stewart
In her new book, ‘Autocracy, Inc.,’ historian Anne Applebaum provides us with a distinctive and indispensable guide to one of the great challenges of our time.
Feb 10, 2025•15 min
Quillette Narrated
Quillette
Narrated versions of selected Quillette essays.
Episodes
Johann Blumenbach: The First Race Scientist by Coel Hellier.
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.
Feb 10, 2025•21 min
Roald Dahl and the Ethics of Art by Iona Italia
The urge to censor is based on a misunderstanding of what makes literature valuable.
Feb 10, 2025•21 min
Sage of Sex and Psyche by Steven Pinker
Remembering Don Symons (1942–2024).
Feb 10, 2025•22 min
'Apostles of Appeasement' by Oscar Clarke
A short history of phoney peace groups and their fellow travellers.
Feb 10, 2025•17 min
'Jesus Wasn't Palestinian' by John Aziz
Palestinians’ history, culture, and connection to the land are valid in their own right. We don’t need to appropriate or falsify Jewish history.
Feb 10, 2025•10 min
'The Baby Gate: A Memoir' by Steve Salerno
So that’s how a fatherhood ends. A few UPCs, like those you find on packs of toilet tissue, delivered via email.
Feb 10, 2025•40 min
'The Language of Soviet Propaganda' by Izabella Tabarovsky
Progressive anti-Zionism and the poisonous legacy of Cold War hatred.
Feb 07, 2025•26 min
'Burning the Quran' by John Aziz
Are we going to defend liberty, openness, and democracy, or are we going to allow radical theocrats and their ideological allies to try to crush our hard-won freedoms?
Feb 06, 2025•9 min
'Australia's Anti-Semitism Crisis' by Claire Lehmann
Claire Lehmann discusses the aftermath of a firebombing at the Adass Israel Synagogue in Melbourne and the perceived leadership failures in Australia relating to antisemitism. Lehmann argues that there is a leadership vacuum as key figures like Prime Minister Anthony Albanese fail to adequately address antisemitic incidents. This institutional indifference is highlighted by several instances where Jewish Australians were intimidated, and their safety compromised, which elicits historical paralle...
Feb 02, 2025•10 min
'Europe’s Virtues Will Be Its Undoing' by Pascal Bruckner
Ever since, all of Europe—the East as well as the West—has carried the burden of Nazi guilt, as others would have us bear the guilt of North American slavery and Jim Crow.
Jan 23, 2025•41 min
'The Ceasefire Deal' by Benny Morris
As Israel and Hamas begin to implement the ceasefire deal, both the immediate and the longer term future remain unclear.
Jan 21, 2025•20 min
'Shame on Us for Ever Believing Him' by Jonathan Kay
Justin Trudeau convinced me he was a sunny patriot who’d unify Canada. What I got instead was a cynical culture warrior who smeared opponents as bigots and defamed my country as a genocide state.
Jan 16, 2025•14 min
'This Is Not Late-Stage Capitalism' by John Aziz
Automation, artificial intelligence, and robotics are set to redefine the relationship between labour, capital, and production.
Jan 14, 2025•11 min
'Western Europe’s Forgotten Nightmare' by Jonathan Kay
In a new book, Rachel Chrastil artfully illuminates the history of the 1870 Franco-Prussian War, in all its senseless horror.
Dec 13, 2024•22 min
'Savage Entertainment' by Jaspreet Singh Boparai
A new version of Tinto Brass and Bob Guccione’s notorious 1979 film ‘Caligula’ provides a valuable record of one of the most fascinating disasters in cinema history.
Dec 09, 2024•51 min
'Divorce and the Silver Bullet' by James C. Coren
False allegations may be employed by either parent, but, given the prevailing winds of culture, the gun is far more often in the hand of a woman.
Nov 26, 2024•20 min
'Making America British Again' by David A. Wilson
The story of William Cobbett and the American Revolutionary culture wars.
Nov 14, 2024•24 min
'Justice in Stockholm' by Roya Hakakian
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.
Nov 11, 2024•34 min
'The West is Next' by John Aziz
If we are to fight for liberty for everyone—including Muslims—we must be serious about being ready to stand up to Islamists like Hamas, who seek to revive Islamic imperialism.
Nov 11, 2024•14 min
'A History of Feminist Antisemitism' by Kara Jesella
The story of how activists and academics exchanged the struggle for universal female improvement for a politics of division and hatred.
Nov 07, 2024•38 min
'The Case for Life on Mars' by Stephen Fleming.
Settling Mars isn’t just about making humanity a multi-planetary species. It is about improving life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for everyone on Earth.
Nov 06, 2024•23 min
'Blonde on Blonde' by Charlotte Allen.
Andrew Dominik’s much-maligned film about the life and death of a screen icon claws through the sentimental myth-making in search of terrible truths.
Oct 30, 2024•55 min
'The Age of Amnesia' by Joel Kotkin
The spread of mass education may have exemplified the promise of liberal civilization. But, without an understanding and appreciation of what allowed it to flourish, it could also accelerate its dissolution.
Oct 25, 2024•16 min
The Children of the Revolution by James David Banker.
The Children of the Revolution by James David Banker. Read by William Laing. Mao Zedong activated China’s youth—unblemished and uncorrupted in heart and mind—to lead the struggle for purity.
Oct 23, 2024•18 min
Why China Is Hiding the Horrors of Its Past by Nick Taber
Why China Is Hiding the Horrors of its Past: While the Chinese government continues to transform Xinjiang through its cultural genocide program aimed at eliminating the distinct identity of the Uyghur population, it is also putting a high priority on controlling the history of the region and its people. By Nick Taber. Read by Iona Italia.
Oct 23, 2024•13 min
'White Lotus, Red Dragon—China’s History of Millenarian Dissent' by Aaron Sarin
White Lotus, Red Dragon—China’s History of Millenarian Dissent: When one woman refused and snapped at them to “go away,” they attacked her with a chair and mop handle. By Aaron Sarin. Read by Iona Italia.
Oct 22, 2024•19 min
'Death of a Deluded Man' by John Aziz
'The Death of a Deluded Man' by John Aziz. Read by John Aziz. Yahya Sinwar should be remembered above all as a failure whose fetish for Jewish—and Palestinian—blood turned Gaza into dust and rubble.
Oct 20, 2024•14 min
'Serfing the Future' by Joel Kotkin and Wendell Cox
'Serfing the Future' by Joel Kotkin and Wendell Cox. Read by William Laing.
Oct 19, 2024•21 min
'The Fall of Beirut' by Art Keller
'The Fall of Beirut: Calling Hezbollah merely a terror group is too simplistic, and nothing in Lebanon is ever simple or easy to explain.' by Art Keller. Read by Iona Italia.
Oct 18, 2024•18 min
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