Charlie Is My Darling
Claudia Verhoeven’s new book is a valuable contribution to the crowded library of Mansonia.
George Case
· 9 min read
Why Soccer Is Boring
How the beautiful game convinced the world that boredom is sophistication.
Robert Lynch
· 10 min read
First Nations Chief, Podcast Pundit, Indigenous Gadfly
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Aaron Pete, Chief of the Chawathil First Nation, about reserve governance, residential schools, ‘unmarked graves,’ and intra-Indigenous politics.
Quillette
· 33 min read
How a Hidden Songbook Survived the Holocaust
The extraordinary story of how a fragile Holocaust songbook, hidden for decades in a Sydney cupboard, came back to the world.
Joseph Toltz, Anna Boucher
· 14 min read
The Long Road to Medical ‘Miracles’
How decades of invisible science produced two cancer breakthroughs.
Henry I. Miller
· 9 min read
What an Eighth Grader Taught Me About Status
Comparing yourself to others locks you into a contest you can never win and makes other people’s wins feel like your defeats.
Robert Lynch
· 9 min read
The Menace of a Respectable Hatred
What remains of a person, an institution, or a civilisation that dishonours itself when Jews and Israel become the targets of hatred and violence?
Yuki Zeman
· 16 min read
The Mask That Made Me
Thirty years as a high-functioning neurodivergent project manager.
Jason Sylvester
· 7 min read
Why Australia's New Capital Gains Tax Is the Best Tax Policy for Crushing the Economy
Fund manager Derek Francis tells Claire Lehmann that Treasury's modelling of Australia's new capital gains tax contains a basic error — one that could push tax rates on shares as high as 70 percent.
Claire Lehmann
· 26 min read
The NGO Industrial Complex: Gerald Steinberg on How Human Rights Became a Racket | Quillette Cetera Episode 67
NGO Monitor founder Gerald Steinberg on how Amnesty, Human Rights Watch, and the UN's "civil society" experiment were hijacked — and why journalists still buy it.
Zoe Sankey, Gerald M. Steinberg
· 28 min read
The Greatest Tradition of All
Apart from the Declaration and Constitution, there is perhaps no more essentially American document than Thomas Paine’s revolutionary pamphlet ‘Common Sense.’
Matt Johnson
· 8 min read
Jefferson and the Source of Human Rights
To understand the intent of the US Declaration of Independence, recall that its primary author was a deist rather than a Christian.
Coel Hellier
· 7 min read
Promises Made and (Eventually) Kept
The Declaration of Independence at 250.
Michael M. Rosen
· 8 min read
Gloomy Optimist
Jefferson emerges as a man who doubted democracy's permanence yet placed his faith in future generations. Onuf and Cogliano rescue him from caricature—even if one dimension of his thought remains in shadow.
Ron Capshaw
· 6 min read