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Class Struggle Meets Game Night

5 days ago | quillette.com | Jonathan Kay

In 2017, a Greek Cypriot policy wonk named Varnavas Timotheou got the idea to create an “educational board game based on the academic principles of political sciences, political economy, and economics.” As elevator pitches go, it sounds like a complete dud. And yet, the game he ultimately produced in 2023, Hegemony: Lead Your Class to Victory, has been a huge commercial success, and now ranks as the 45th most popular title on the widely followed BoardGameGeek web site.
Literary Prozac

1 week ago | quillette.com | Brad Strotten |Bradley Strotten

A review of The Sleepers by Matthew Gasda, 288 pages, Arcade Publishing (May 2025)In his 1919 essay “Tradition and the Individual Talent,” T.S. Eliot writes, “Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality.” It’s not feelings of personal injury and past trauma that we mine for poetic inspiration, it’s the archives of the canon.
It’s No Longer 1937...

2 weeks ago | quillette.com | Charlotte Allen

The Disney company’s 2025 live-action version ofSnow White is just as terrible as nearly everyone says it is.
Classical Liberalism Without Strong Gods

2 weeks ago | quillette.com | Roger Partridge

In November 2023, Ayaan Hirsi Ali stunned many of her long-time admirers by announcing her conversion to Christianity. “We can’t counter Islamism with purely secular tools,” she explained. As Peter Savodnik has documented, Hirsi Ali is far from alone. This conversion trend spans figures from Jordan Peterson to tech entrepreneur Peter Thiel.
Closer to Mars

3 weeks ago | quillette.com | Peter Hague

Starship recently conducted its ninth test flight. On the previous two test flights, the upper stage vehicle was destroyed during ascent, but this one fared better. However, the booster was destroyed during its landing burn while attempting a soft landing in the ocean, and the ship lost attitude control in space and was not able to complete its test objectives. There will be more test flights, and likely more failures before the rocket works well enough for use.
The Problem With ‘Harvard Derangement Syndrome’

3 weeks ago | quillette.com | Jonathan Kay

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, our recent theme of culture-war bizarro turnabout continues, with yet more tales of conservatives encouraging an illiberal—my guest might even say authoritarian—approach to higher education.
Unholy Alliance

1 month ago | quillette.com | Michael Rosen

A review of On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel and the Future of Civilizationby Douglas Murray, 240 pages, Broadside Books (April 2025)On 21 May, Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim were shot dead in Washington, DC, less than a mile from the US Capitol, apparently by a radical anti-Israel activist.
The Mars Vanity Project

1 month ago | quillette.com | Lawrence Krauss

Elon Musk wants to create a permanent human colony on Mars. He has recently announced plans to land the first human on the Red Planet within this decade, with the view to establishing a million-strong Martian colony within 20–30 years. This plan is logistically ludicrous, strategically ill advised, and scientifically and politically divisive and dangerous. Musk is utilising his vast fortune to try to reshape human destiny.
Wendake or Bust

1 month ago | quillette.com | Jonathan Kay

What follows is the twenty-sixth instalment of The Nations of Canada, a serialised Quillette project adapted from Greg Koabel’s ongoing podcast of the same name. In our last instalment, we looked at how France began rebuilding its colonies in Quebec and Acadia, territories that had been temporarily occupied by English and Scottish interlopers during the Anglo-French War of 1627–29. This time, we’ll be looking at this period from the perspective of France’s Indigenous allies in the region.
Feelings, Facts, and Our Crisis of Truth

1 month ago | quillette.com | Claire Lehmann

This article was originally published at The Dispatch on May 9, 2025. Read it here. An outbreak of measles—a disease once declared eliminated in the US—has hospitalised 91 people in Texas, killing two unvaccinated school-aged children. It is a horrific disease: In severe cases, a child’s immune system collapses, and they suffer seizures and brain damage from encephalitis or drown as fluid fills their lungs. And any outbreak of measles is entirely preventable.