Quillette Narrated

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The Amityville Horror—A 50-Year Old Lie That Won’t Die by Kevin Mims Mar 27, 2025

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Jay Anson’s haunted-house yarn was a highly lucrative hoax, but it struck a popular chord amid the financial precarity of 1970s America.

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The Open Society and Its New Enemies Mar 26, 2025

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What Karl Popper’s classic can teach us about the threats facing democracies today.

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Against the Death Penalty Mar 20, 2025

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The state should not assume the right to end the lives of its citizens at will.

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Stalin, Putin, and the Corruption of History Mar 20, 2025

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The history of Soviet totalitarianism is now being rewritten.

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What Explains Women's Fascination With BDSM Fiction? Mar 17, 2025

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Every generation or so (i.e., roughly every 25 years) a woman (it’s always a woman) writes a book about kinky sex—and a very specific type of kinky sex.

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The Tyranny of Fragility Mar 13, 2025

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How Alexis de Tocqueville foretold the rise of victimhood culture.

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Johann Blumenbach: The First Race Scientist Mar 13, 2025

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The accepted view is that the scientists of the European Enlightenment got the issue of race badly wrong. In fact, some of them got more right than they are usually given credit for.

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Peter Beinart's Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning by Susie Lindfield Mar 13, 2025

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Peter Beinart has responded to the 7 October massacre and subsequent Gaza war with a deeply duplicitous book.

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Israel–Gaza: A War Between Cousins by John Aziz Feb 20, 2025

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Both Israelis and Palestinians have a reasonable claim to live in the Holy Land, based on deep local roots.

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Demystifying Critical Race Theory by Josh Yuter Feb 19, 2025

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Activists on both sides have an incentive to keep Critical Race Theory undefined and ambiguous.