Quillette Narrated

My best friend had a psychotic break—our criss-crossing journeys through facts and fictions in thirteen chapters.

Arguments that patriarchy exists in the West today are largely dependent on reinventions of the concept that would be better dispensed with. 

Jay Anson’s haunted-house yarn was a highly lucrative hoax, but it struck a popular chord amid the financial precarity of 1970s America.

Exploring Karl Popper's critique of historicism, the discussion emphasizes the importance of reason and individual rights in defending open societies. It contrasts successful democratic advancements post-World War II with the complexities in China, where economic growth has not led to democracy. The decline of global democratic momentum is alarming, highlighting the rise of authoritarianism. Economic progress in open societies is celebrated, while the enduring value of democracy is stressed, calling for active engagement to safeguard freedoms from emerging threats.

The state should not assume the right to end the lives of its citizens at will.

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.