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'The German Left's Jewish Dilemma' by Gerfried Ambrosch

Many German leftists, mindful of the country’s past, still support Israel. But they risk being outnumbered by antisemitic Muslim immigrants and by decolonialist radicals.

Jul 24, 202420 min

Ep 12Recycling Plastic Is a Dangerous Waste of Time by Frank Celia

The recycling industry—and the world at large—has yet to fully reckon with a bombshell study that dropped last year. Zoe Booth reads 'Recycling Plastic Is a Dangerous Waste of Time' by Frank Celia. Published in Quillette on 17 Jun 2024.

Jun 26, 202427 min

'Unbowed But Gravely Wounded' by Paul Berman

Salman Rushdie’s new memoir, Knife, describes the assassination attempt its author survived and offers a moving contemplation of mortality.

Jun 3, 202425 min

How French Intellectuals Ruined the West

Postmodernism and Its Impact, Explained. Iona Italia reads 'How French Intellectuals Ruined the West' by Helen Pluckrose. First published in Areo Magazine. Republished in Quillette on 7 May 2024.

May 8, 202431 min

Misadventures of a Stalinist Stooge

Benn Steil’s engrossing new biography of Henry A. Wallace is a timely cautionary tale and a masterpiece of 20th-century American history.

Apr 25, 202443 min

'Jean-Luc Godard in Retrospect Part II: Fanaticism and Failure (1966–2022)' by Charlotte Allen

A brief five-year period produced nearly all the Godard movies that film aficionados still remember, but even these celebrated works have dated poorly.

Apr 15, 20241h 3m

'Toward Ruin or Recovery?' by Larissa Phillips

The modern feminist response to rape is failing women, and it is failing victims of rape most of all.

Apr 11, 202457 min

'Jean-Luc Godard in Retrospect Part I: Abstraction Hero (1930–65)' by Charlotte Allen.

A brief five-year period produced nearly all the Godard movies that film aficionados still remember, but even these celebrated works have dated poorly.

Apr 10, 20241h 4m

'History Matters' by Joel Kotkin

A restoration of history, in all its complexity, is critical to escaping the polarized, rigid, and often insane political environment we now inhabit.

Sep 18, 202330 min

'Ending the Hunger Games' by Iona Italia

New pharmaceuticals appear to offer a genuine solution to the problem of excess appetite, that uncontrollable urge to eat more than we need to that keeps so many of us fat.

Sep 14, 202351 min

‘Our New, Subscription-Based World,’ by the Quillette editorial board.

Apr 14, 202311 min

‘Don’t Let Cancellation Become Banal,’ by Nina Paley.

Apr 6, 20238 min

‘Hormones First. Research Later,’ by Bernard Lane,

A Review of Hannah Barnes’s ‘Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock’s Gender Service for Children’

Mar 19, 202323 min