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20:07

Making Fiction Boring

Quillette Narrated ·

2025/10/22

The ideological capture of college writing programs has ushered in an age of didactic, anodyne, and tedious books.By ⁠Adam Szetela⁠

16:57

Greta Thunberg’s Fifteen Minutes

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2025/10/16

The climate activist’s simplistic slogans and hectoring style proved effective when she was still a child. But now that she’s an adult, the act is losing its shine.

9:39

Israel’s Hard-Won Victory

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2025/10/16

The Jewish state has secured its borders, recovered all living hostages, and put its enemies on notice as to what awaits them if they attempt a reprise of 7 October. By ⁠The Quillette Editorial Board⁠.

8:29

The Art of Middle Eastern Pillow Talk

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2025/10/16

Amir and I had very different ideas about which side had committed a ‘genocide.’ But it didn’t stop us from being civil. By David Christopher Kaufman.

11:09

All at Sea

Quillette Narrated ·

2025/10/14

Greta Thunberg’s sailing trip to Gaza was a confused piece of activist theatre of a kind that is sadly very much in vogue.

28:57

It’s No Longer 1937...

Quillette Narrated ·

2025/10/10

Disney’s awful new Snow White adaptation fails to recreate or even understand the story it is trying to tell.

29:01

The Malpractice of Menopausal Medicine Reveals a...

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2025/10/08

Healthcare for menopause and perimenopause is the single most patient-betraying area of medicine—but it has plenty of company.By Amy Alkon.

17:54

Why We Should Read Nietzsche

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2025/10/07

My sense is that Nietzsche is best understood as a radical individualist; one who insists passionately that our duty in life is to become what we are. But what kind of person is that?

13:43

No, You Don’t Have a Disorder, You Have Feelings

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2025/10/03

When we construe normal feeling as illness, we offer people an understanding of themselves as disordered. This encourages people to be stuck in a limiting narrative.

34:09

Why Not Polygamy? Examining the Case for Legalisation

Quillette Narrated ·

2025/10/01

Polygamy is a criminal offense throughout the Western world. Would making it legal be progress?

23:34

George Orwell, Henry Miller, and the...

Quillette Narrated ·

2025/09/29

Like Miller, Orwell didn’t just focus on the “dirty-handkerchief side of life”—he repeatedly confessed to the dirty-handkerchief side of his own personality.

13:29

How Accurate is Christopher Nolan’s ‘Oppenheimer’?

Quillette Narrated ·

2025/09/24

A nuclear engineer reviews the blockbuster film.

20:54

Huxley, Burroughs, and the Church of Scientology

Quillette Narrated ·

2025/09/17

Like it or not, hidden within those influential texts are the bizarre jargon and lunatic assertions of a mendacious madman.

8:55

Brainrot, Not Ideology

Quillette Narrated ·

2025/09/15

The assassination of Charlie Kirk shows how Discord, memes, and “online brainrot” may motivate disaffected youth like Tyler Robinson more than ideology.

29:31

Pride and Prejudice

Quillette Narrated ·

2025/09/14

The self-esteem movements that once deranged America’s school curricula have since deranged the realm of identity activism.

14:00

Gaza and the Collapse of Truth-Seeking

Quillette Narrated ·

2025/09/09

The Gaza aid-site controversy and a crisis of journalism by Gary Geipel.

48:02

Thomas Sowell: Tragic Optimist

Quillette Narrated ·

2025/09/09

In his 2000 memoir A Personal Odyssey, Sowell recounts a parable that was read to him as a young boy and which he never forgot.

11:14

Falling Fertility: A Crisis We Refuse to Face

Quillette Narrated ·

2025/09/07

Fertility decline is not merely a demographic curiosity—it is a structural challenge with civilisational implications. So why are people so reluctant to take it seriously?By Andrew Glover

30:02

In Defence of Absolute Truth

Quillette Narrated ·

2025/09/04

By rejecting any universally applicable standards of reason, it destroys the possibility of true conversation, of learning from and compromising with each other.

11:55

Mahmood Mamdani Wants to Dismantle America

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2025/09/02

Zohran Mamdani’s father Mahmood is a postnationalist who advocates the dissolution of all nation states, which he views as intrinsically violent and unjust.

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