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14/08/2025

A reply to D. Marshall.
By Aaron Sarin.

A reply to D. Marshall.

13/08/2025

What is autogynephilia?

In 2019, Louise Perry interviewed Ray Blanchard for Quillette about his controversial theory of autogynephilia.

The conversation remains a lightning rod in debates over gender, sexuality, and the politicization of clinical ideas.

Read more at the link in bio.

12/08/2025

Welcome to Quillette — where you might not agree with everything we publish, but you can trust we publish the arguments worth reading, even when they challenge you.

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12/08/2025

The campaign to strip novelist John Boyne of his Polari Prize longlist honour shows that gender extremists still seek to control progressive arts subcultures—even as mainstream society rejects their illiberal movement.
By Allan Stratton.

The campaign to strip novelist John Boyne of his Polari Prize longlist honour shows that gender extremists still seek to control progressive arts subcultures—even as mainstream society rejects their illiberal movement.

12/08/2025

Jefferson Morley’s dogged pursuit of a CIA connection in Miami is all smoke and no fire.
By Fred Litwin.

Jefferson Morley’s dogged pursuit of a CIA connection in Miami is all smoke and no fire.

12/08/2025

Distinguishing fact from fiction is crucial to understanding the situation in Gaza and holding the correct parties accountable.
By Andrew Fox.

Distinguishing fact from fiction is crucial to understanding the situation in Gaza and holding the correct parties accountable.

11/08/2025

Garret Graff’s new book provides the story of America’s quest for the bomb with a valuable human quality without sacrificing the epic sweep.
By Ron Capshaw.

Garret Graff’s new book provides the story of America’s quest for the bomb with a valuable human quality without sacrificing the epic sweep.

09/08/2025

Benjamin Netanyahu has been systematically destroying Israel’s democratic institutions by appointing criminals, interfering with the judiciary, and prioritising his political survival over national governance.
By Benny Morris.

Benjamin Netanyahu has been systematically destroying Israel’s democratic institutions by appointing criminals, interfering with the judiciary, and prioritising his political survival over national governance.

09/08/2025

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Read more: https://quillette.com/2019/09/14/europes-virtues-will-be-its-undoing/

08/08/2025

Every layer of institutional knowledge validated this public-health technology. Yet it’s being overruled based on a politically torqued misreading of what vaccines are supposed to do.
By Jake Scott.

Every layer of institutional knowledge validated this public-health technology. Yet it’s being overruled based on a politically torqued misreading of what vaccines are supposed to do.

08/08/2025

"The first year of my English studies lived up to my expectations. We studied a bit of Chaucer and the 19th-century novel, including Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. But in second and third year, the coursework changed. Instead of studying the great works, we were assigned “texts,” which could be art installations, films, or TV shows. The assigned readings were all about the ideas of a philosopher named Michel Foucault. It felt like a bait and switch: reel them in with the promise of literature, then bury them in readings about heteronormativity."⁠
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Read more: https://quillette.com/2025/08/05/a-heterodox-education-paglia-foucault-intelligence-iq/
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08/08/2025

Iona Italia talks to novelist and historian Nev March about how a series of landmark court cases in the 19th and 20th centuries upended both the Indian legal system and the Parsi community.
By Quillette,Nev March.

Iona Italia talks to novelist and historian Nev March about how a series of landmark court cases in the 19th and 20th centuries upended both the Indian legal system and the Parsi community.