Archive - Quillette’s Substack

Anti-Catholic Social Panics, Then and Now

Two centuries before the claimed discovery of non-existent ‘unmarked graves’ in British Columbia, a wave of bestselling ‘convent exposés’ alleged mass…

19 hrs ago • Steven Tucker

Josh Frydenberg on Bondi, Antisemitism and A Grateful Son

Former Australian Treasurer Josh Frydenberg tells Claire Lehmann why he believes Bondi was preventable, and what Australia needs on antisemitism, tax…

22 hrs ago • Claire Lehmann

A Dishonest (and Dangerous) Nobel Laureate

Navi Pillay’s appalling treatment of Hamas’s sexual violence provides ample reason to deny her any prestigious honours.

Oct 13 • Norman J.W. Goda

A wonderful new book by Stephen Wade, America’s greatest living folklorist, chronicles the history of the country’s folk music.

Oct 13 • Ron Radosh

How Genetics Rewrote History

Ancient DNA has given historians a new archive, and in two decades it has settled long-running arguments about who migrated, who conquered, and who…

Oct 13 • Razib Khan

Equal Pay, Unequal Work

Grand Slam champions take home identical prizes, but the men must win 50 percent more sets to get there.

Oct 11 • Jukka Savolainen

Claire's Weekly Letter: An Army of Yesterday’s Civilians

A weekly roundup from our Editor-in-Chief.

Oct 11 • Claire Lehmann

The Genetics of Crime and Punishment

Despite her professed atheism, Kathryn Paige Harden insists on making quasi-religious claims about free will and moral responsibility.

Oct 11 • Damien Morris

The Left Has a Problem with the American Revolution

Essays in the New Yorker, the NYRB, and the Atlantic make one worry about the kind of nation they might urge the United States to become.

Oct 9 • Tony Fels

Jerry Kaplan on AI Doomers

AI veteran Jerry Kaplan tells Claire Lehmann why he thinks the doomers are wrong, what the rogue-agent incidents did and didn’t show, and where real…

Oct 8 • Claire Lehmann

An Army of Yesterday’s Civilians: Ukraine and the Fight for Freedom

Do Europeans fully grasp what the fall of Ukraine would mean for the rest of the continent?

Oct 7 • Maarten Boudry

Three Years After 7 October

Three years ago today, Hamas murdered some 1,200 people in southern Israel and dragged 251 hostages into Gaza.

Oct 7 • Quillette

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