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1 month ago | 
quillette.com | Steve Salerno |Adam Garfinkle |Jonathan Kay |Greg Koabel
I was 23 the first time I heard the word spoken with real malice in my physical presence. This was, unmistakably, not the fraternal versionâthe one ending in the soft â-aâ that edgy black comics employ in their bonding moments with outgoing black presidents.
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1 month ago | 
quillette.com | Adam Garfinkle |Jonathan Kay |Greg Koabel |James Kierstead
HOST: Welcome to the Quillette Podcast, which is usually hosted on alternate weeks by me, Jonathan Kay, and by Iona Italia. Quillette is where free thought lives. We are an independent, grassroots platform for heterodox ideas and fearless commentary. And this week, we’ll be talking about Ukraine—a subject that is at the top of the headlines thanks to the bizarre diplomatic spectacle that took place at the White House on Friday during a visit from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
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1 month ago | 
quillette.com | Adam Garfinkle |Jonathan Kay |Greg Koabel |James Kierstead
As I absorbed the collected enormities disgorged by the second Trump administration on the topics of Ukraine and NATO over the last few weeksâfirst in Brussels, then in Munich, then in Washington, then in Riyadh, and finally in the Oval OfficeâI was reminded of the following exchange from Lewis Carrollâs 1871 novel Through the Looking-Glass: âThereâs no use trying,â Alice said to the White Queen: âOne canât believe impossible things.â âI daresay you havenât had much...
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1 month ago | 
quillette.com | Jonathan Kay |Greg Koabel |James Kierstead |Brad Strotten
“I find this story astonishing as an outsider,” a British historian told me on social media last week. “Can I just confirm what I believe to be the case: There is no proof of any burials… just GPR [ground-penetrating radar] ‘anomalies’ [that] haven’t been investigated? The 215 children are, as things stand, entirely notional?”The answer, in a word, is yes.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
quillette.com | Samuel Veissière |Claire Lehmann |Thomas Doherty |Greg Koabel
Editor’s Note: This article was first published in Areo Magazine in September 2020. I know of no country in which, for the most part, independence of thought and true freedom of expression are so diminished as in America … In America, the majority traces a tremendous circle around thought. Within its limits, the writer is free, but a great misfortune will befall those who depart from it. [The dissenter] will face disgusts of all kinds and everyday forms of persecution.
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Jan 12, 2025 | 
quillette.com | Claire Lehmann |Thomas Doherty |Greg Koabel |John Aziz
Australia’s catastrophic 2020 fire season shocked the world, claiming twenty-four lives over months of rural and bushland fires. Now, in just days, fires burning through Los Angeles’s densely populated neighbourhoods have killed sixteen people, with authorities warning the death toll will likely rise as they search affected areas. The Palisades Fire alone has destroyed over 1,000 structures, making it the most destructive fire in Los Angeles history.
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Jan 11, 2025 | 
quillette.com | Thomas Doherty |Greg Koabel |John Aziz |Jonathan Kay
Jonathan Kay: [00:00:00] Welcome to the Quillette Podcast, hosted on alternate weeks by me, Jonathan Kay, and by Iona Italia. Quillette is where free thought lives. We are an independent, grassroots platform for heterodox ideas and fearless commentary. You are about to hear a free preview of this week’s episode. To hear the full episode, and to get access to all our podcasts and articles, visit us at Quillette.com and click the Subscribe button.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
quillette.com | Thomas Doherty |Greg Koabel |John Aziz |Jonathan Kay
The actress Anna May Wong (1905â61) is enjoying a revival that comes sixty-three years too late to do her any good.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
quillette.com | Greg Koabel |John Aziz |Jonathan Kay |Aaron Sarin
What follows is the twenty-fourth instalment of The Nations of Canada, a serialised Quillette project adapted from Greg Koabel’s ongoing podcast of the same name. In the summer of 1627, France and England were at war, and the two European empires braced to do battle all over the world. With one important exception: Cardinal Richelieu, who effectively dictated France’s Canadian policy in the name of King Louis XIII, continued colonial operations in Quebec as if the war hadn’t yet begun.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Kevin Mims |John Lloyd |Samuel Kronen |Greg Koabel
Bright Lights, Big City, Jay McInerney’s debut novel, was published in 1984 and thus celebrates its fortieth anniversary this year. If you are under sixty years of age, this probably doesn’t mean much to you, but by the time McInerney’s book arrived, literary fiction had been in the doldrums for most of the late 1970s and early 1980s. That period is fascinatingly documented in Dan Sinykin’s recent book, Big Fiction.
