Quillette Narrated

Forecasts that Nigel Farage will become UK prime minister now attract expressions of anxious concern not mockery from the liberal commentariat.

Created as a haven for free thinkers, UATX was the last place where I’d expected to encounter ideological litmus tests. By Ellie Avishai.

Alexandre Dumas’s novel is by turns an adventure story, a paean to bourgeois values, and a Greek epic. No wonder it continues to fascinate. 

The simplest way of defining oikophobia is as the opposite extreme of xenophobia.

The colonisation of Australia was neither a "peaceful settlement" nor a bloody conquest. It was a Malthusian swamping: the inevitable and tragic result of contact between hunter gatherers and agriculturalists.

What caused L. Ron Hubbard to turn on a discipline he had once accepted?

The idea of an Australian republic is attractive to some, but there's a strong case for a humble head of state.

Despite the uncertainties and tensions that characterize modern political life, we would do well to remember that the future we want is never the future we actually get, and that civilisation will outlast the fragility of politics.

If Bach was the sound of God whistling while he worked, AC/DC was the sound of God ordering another round in a strip club on Saturday night.

I have never seen a dream present something I believed to be untrue.