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Quillette

Narrated versions of selected Quillette essays.

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17:29

Yukio Mishima: Japan’s Cultural Martyr

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2026/01/07

Mishima’s reputation has grown in the new century and today there is more serious interest in his work than ever before.

12:39

Bondi Attack Exposes Australia's Multicultural Blind...

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2025/12/29

The Bondi terrorist attack reveals how Australia's reluctance to discuss Islamic antisemitism and ideological motivations undermines cohesion. By Alan Davison.

11:30

The Infinite Reopening of History

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2025/12/24

Removal, expulsion, ethnic cleansing, erasure, even genocide. These are the fruits of the idea that the world can be made right again by undoing history.

19:51

Game, Set, Match

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2025/12/23

Routinely reviled by contemporary critics as a celebration of misogyny, ‘The Taming of the Shrew’ is among Shakespeare’s most misunderstood plays.

11:28

To Winter, With Love

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2025/12/22

The cold allows me to feel alive.

7:07

The Hatred We Must Name

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2025/12/22

We have ignored, enabled, downplayed, and pandered to vicious antisemitism for too long. The victims of the Bondi massacre paid the price.By Iona Italia.

8:50

Bondi Was Not a Surprise

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2025/12/17

The massacre at Bondi Beach was shocking—but after years of denial and equivocation about antisemitism, it was inevitable. By Jack Pinczewski

12:19

The New Information Wars

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2025/12/09

Generative AI, disinformation, and the dangerous temptation of benevolent censorship.

17:48

What Is Autogynephilia? An Interview with Dr Ray...

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2025/12/04

Modern trans activists reframed transsexualism/transgenderism as a political problem rather than a clinical problem.

13:15

Iran's Two Ticking Clocks

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2025/11/27

While the nuclear breakout clock ticks, time may also be expiring on the Ayatollah regime’s grip on the region. The two countdowns are interconnected.

33:53

Ancient Indian Tradition—Or Twentieth-Century...

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2025/11/20

Evidence suggests that today’s common yoga practices were inspired by a popular 1924 Danish gymnastics manual.

17:42

The Melbourne Crimewave

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2025/11/18

Criminal-justice reformers like to say that it is better to be ‘smart on crime’ than ‘tough on crime.’ But sometimes being tough is the smart choice. By ⁠Andrew Bushnell⁠

20:07

Easy Rider: 50 Years Looking for America—A Review

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2025/11/13

Easy Rider is an important movie—much more important than a simple measure of its quality would suggest—which is probably why the American Film Institute, among others, continues to rate it so highly.

13:03

The Murder of Iryna Zarutska

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2025/11/07

⁠Jukka Savolainen⁠ 's article "The Murder of Iryna Zarutska — Why did this particular crime cut through the daily background noise of American violence?" on Quillette explores the reasons behind the heightened attention the murder of Iryna Zarutska received in conservative circles and the muted response from mainstream media. Iryna Zarutska, a young Ukrainian refugee, was killed in Charlotte, North Carolina, in a crime caught on CCTV, sparking outrage primarily among conservatives.The article

14:43

Charles Darwin: The Best Scientist-Writer of All Time

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2025/11/06

The Voyage of the Beagle is a literary masterpiece, as well as a scientific one.

20:20

We Need to Talk About Trans-Identified Killers

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2025/11/03

The list of violent criminals who imagine they were ‘born in the wrong body’ is growing. By Forest Romm, Kevin Waldman

14:36

Fleeing South Africa

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2025/10/24

The situation of South African “whites” is worse than Donald Trump's critics are willing to acknowledge.

19:41

Two Hundred Years of Stendhal

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2025/10/23

2022 marked the bicentennial of the pseudonym’s transformation from literary dabbler into one of the greatest novelists of the modern age.

20:07

Making Fiction Boring

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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.

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