Quillette Narrated

How did this famed sexologist become reviled at both ends of the culture-war horseshoe?

The Zoroastrians of India, are a tiny and rapidly shrinking group. Yet they exclude women who marry out and their offspring from their community.

Despite serious flaws, ‘Captain America: Brave New World’ is much better than Marvel’s recent offerings. Perhaps the franchise may have turned the corner.

Forecasts that Nigel Farage will become UK prime minister now attract expressions of anxious concern not mockery from the liberal commentariat.

Created as a haven for free thinkers, UATX was the last place where I’d expected to encounter ideological litmus tests. By Ellie Avishai.

Alexandre Dumas’s novel is by turns an adventure story, a paean to bourgeois values, and a Greek epic. No wonder it continues to fascinate.

The simplest way of defining oikophobia is as the opposite extreme of xenophobia.

The colonisation of Australia was neither a "peaceful settlement" nor a bloody conquest. It was a Malthusian swamping: the inevitable and tragic result of contact between hunter gatherers and agriculturalists.

What caused L. Ron Hubbard to turn on a discipline he had once accepted?

The idea of an Australian republic is attractive to some, but there's a strong case for a humble head of state.

Despite the uncertainties and tensions that characterize modern political life, we would do well to remember that the future we want is never the future we actually get, and that civilisation will outlast the fragility of politics.

If Bach was the sound of God whistling while he worked, AC/DC was the sound of God ordering another round in a strip club on Saturday night.

I have never seen a dream present something I believed to be untrue.

Let us not confuse the freedom to speak with the freedom to mislead.

In a speech at the University of Western Ontario Faculty of Law, Jonathan Kay shared insights from investigating a controversy at the university's teachers college. The story involves Margaret Munn, a middle-aged educator who faced backlash for questioning the concept of "decolonization" in a course titled "Indigenous Education: Towards a Decolonizing Pedagogy." Munn was reported to the Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion committee and faced potential expulsion for her views. However, a UWO tribunal eventually ruled in her favor, citing violations of free speech. The editor’s investigation highlights the institutional pressures and the complex dynamics of academic environments focused on decolonization and social justice.

Louis Theroux’s new documentary suggests that he is unfamiliar with the complex history behind the Israeli occupation of The West Bank, and does not understand the political and ideological factors at stake there. By John Aziz.

How the battle for the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act was fought, won, and nearly lost again.

What happens when the values of multiculturalism conflict with homophobic, misogynistic, and deeply anti-democratic strains of Islam?

Progressive anti-Zionism and the poisonous legacy of Cold War hatred.

The magisterial incomprehensibility of Bob Dylan’s ‘Visions of Johanna.’

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.

Adnan Syed would never have been released had ‘Serial’ not been made. Advocacy journalism must be treated with caution.

A serious reexamination of this case must begin by setting out the evidence that led the jury to convict.

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.

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.

The environmental havoc is justified as needed for the economy, but the evidence does not support this claim.

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.

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.

My best friend had a psychotic break—our criss-crossing journeys through facts and fictions in thirteen chapters.

Arguments that patriarchy exists in the West today are largely dependent on reinventions of the concept that would be better dispensed with.

Jay Anson’s haunted-house yarn was a highly lucrative hoax, but it struck a popular chord amid the financial precarity of 1970s America.

What Karl Popper’s classic can teach us about the threats facing democracies today.

The state should not assume the right to end the lives of its citizens at will.

The history of Soviet totalitarianism is now being rewritten.

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.

How Alexis de Tocqueville foretold the rise of victimhood culture.

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.

Peter Beinart has responded to the 7 October massacre and subsequent Gaza war with a deeply duplicitous book.

Both Israelis and Palestinians have a reasonable claim to live in the Holy Land, based on deep local roots.

Activists on both sides have an incentive to keep Critical Race Theory undefined and ambiguous.

Civil-rights law made the DEI world; civil-rights reform can unmake it.

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.

While we fuss over definitions and pontificate on freedoms, sex and lust and desire and passion and bodies coming together, remain largely undomesticated.

A short history of phoney peace groups and their fellow travellers.

Skin colour, genetics, race, and racism.

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.

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.

Syria’s crisis demonstrates the importance of power.

While Islam traditionally treated Jews with contempt, antisemitic conspiracy theories imported from Germany escalated this animosity by vilifying Jews as agents of diabolical evil.

While claims of skill transfer may be overblown, there is still benefit to be had in the tiny, claustrophobic world of the game.