Quillette

Timothee Chalamet is a white man in his 20s, at a microphone, wearing dark glasses, with curly brown ha

Printing the Legend

The naysayers are dead wrong about James Mangold’s remarkable new film about Bob Dylan and the Greenwich Village folk scene of the early 1960s.

Ronald Radosh

26 Dec 2024 · 15 min read

Reader Favourites

Daniel Penny is a tall man in his 30s, with curly blonde hair. He is getting out of a car, wearing a suit.

The Trial of Daniel Penny

Perhaps the most damaging aspect of Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s racial-equity regime has been the perception of racial unfairness it created in one of America’s most racially diverse cities.

Eli Steele

17 Dec 2024 · 17 min read

A Very American Madness

America is not fallen; it is simply given to periodic bouts of insanity. The patient is tiresome; the patient is ridiculous; but the patient is stable.

Ronald W. Dworkin

12 Dec 2024 · 17 min read

Architectural drawing showing a very modern looking structure against a sunset sky.

Lessons from a Teachers-College Battle Over Free Speech and ‘Decolonization’

University of Western Ontario instructors spent months denouncing an outspoken education student who’d asked awkward questions about Indigenous reconciliation—until a UWO tribunal concluded they’d violated her rights.

Jonathan Kay

29 Nov 2024 · 24 min read

See all ↗

Join the newsletter to receive the latest updates in your inbox.

Show Your Support Today

A Christmas Message from the Editor

What I learned about Christianity from a visit to the Louvre with my baby.

Claire Lehmann

24 Dec 2024 · 5 min read

Podcast #265: Did Oliver Cromwell Really Kill Christmas?

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with David Crowther about seventeenth-century puritan attitudes toward yuletide debauchery—and about his acclaimed History of England podcast.

Quillette

24 Dec 2024 · 15 min read

A giant puppet dinosaur is dead, representing the death of Germany's nuclear power plants.

Green Acceleration

It is time to take environmentalism away from the environmentalists.

Craig DeLancey

23 Dec 2024 · 7 min read

Protestors with Israeli flags and Iranian pre-Islamic flags, with their backs to us.

Iran’s Two Ticking Clocks

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.