Quillette Narrated

The history of Soviet totalitarianism is now being rewritten.

Every generation or so (i.e., roughly every 25 years) a woman (it’s always a woman) writes a book about kinky sex—and a very specific type of kinky sex.

How Alexis de Tocqueville foretold the rise of victimhood culture.

The accepted view is that the scientists of the European Enlightenment got the issue of race badly wrong. In fact, some of them got more right than they are usually given credit for.

Peter Beinart has responded to the 7 October massacre and subsequent Gaza war with a deeply duplicitous book.

Both Israelis and Palestinians have a reasonable claim to live in the Holy Land, based on deep local roots.

Activists on both sides have an incentive to keep Critical Race Theory undefined and ambiguous.

Civil-rights law made the DEI world; civil-rights reform can unmake it.

Those seeking to address the crisis on America’s campuses should resist the tendency toward nihilism—the temptation to conclude that we need to just (metaphorically) burn it all down.

While we fuss over definitions and pontificate on freedoms, sex and lust and desire and passion and bodies coming together, remain largely undomesticated.