**Javier Milei and the Libertarian Tradition**

His political ascent was meteoric, but classical liberalism has a storied history in Argentina.

https://quillette.com/2023/11/30/javier-milei-and-the-libertarian-tradition-in-argentina/ 

 **A Murder in Namibia**

How two bungling American assassins travelled over 7,000 miles to settle a grudge, and then turned their trial into a nine-year circus.

https://quillette.com/2023/11/01/a-murder-in-namibia/ 

 **Quillette Cetera Episode 20: Care Feminism vs Career Feminism**

In a culture obsessed with girl bosses, this young mother wants us to see the value of women's work in the home.

https://quillette.com/blog/2023/10/05/quillette-cetera-episode-21-virginia-tapscott/ 

 **Towards a Brave New World**

Huxley’s dystopian novel was a warning, but we are systematically moving in the direction he indicated.

https://quillette.com/2023/10/05/towards-a-brave-new-world/ 

 **The Insidious Lie That We Can’t Understand Each Other**

And a guide for how to productively push back against the identity trap.

https://quillette.com/2023/10/04/the-insidious-lie-that-we-cant-understand-each-other/ 

 **Howard Men**

Prince Jones, Carlton Jones, and the evasions of Ta-Nehisi Coates.

https://quillette.com/2023/10/03/howard-men/ 

 **Sculpture and Story**

Narrative art has been deeply unfashionable for about a century. But aren’t art and stories inextricable?

https://quillette.com/2023/10/02/sculpture-and-story/ 

 **Quillette Cetera Episode 19: The Elephant Man in an Era of Cancel Culture**

Crowds love the irreverence of The Marvellous Elephant Man Musical, but activists want it boycotted.

https://quillette.com/blog/2023/10/02/quillette-cetera-episode-19-sydney-fringe/ 

 **Podcast #224: Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans-Identified Children**

_Quillette_ podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to psychotherapist and book author Stella O’Malley (http://www.stellaomalley.com/?ref=quillette.com), and parent “Josie A. (https://pitt.substack.com/?ref=quillette.com),” about the need to heed parents’ voices before “affirming” a child’s desire for gender-transition therapies.

https://cdn.quillette.com/2023/10/Screenshot-2023-10-02-at-1.14.02-AM-1.png (https://www.amazon.com/Parents-Inconvenient-Truths-about-Trans-ebook/dp/B0C759GZFP?ref=quillette.com)

https://quillette.com/2023/10/02/podcast-224-parents-with-inconvenient-truths-about-trans-identified-children/ 

 **King of the Goths**

In the third instalment of ‘The So-Called Dark Ages,’ podcaster Herbert Bushman describes the rise of Alaric I, whose Gothic armies roamed Greece and the Balkans before marching on Rome itself.

https://quillette.com/2023/10/02/king-of-the-goths/ 

 **A Country in the Making**

Sean Penn’s surprising new documentary explores “extreme history” in war-torn Ukraine.

https://quillette.com/2023/09/29/a-country-in-the-making/ 

 **How Australia’s Press Council Has Been Used to Stifle the Gender Debate**

In their reporting on the medicalisation of dysphoric children, Australian journalists are now expected to comply with media guidelines drafted at the behest of trans activists.

https://quillette.com/2023/09/29/how-australias-press-council-has-been-used-to-stifle-the-gender-debate/ 

 **The Communication Revolution**

Like the first iPhone, Gutenberg’s Bible opened up avenues of development that entrepreneurs have been exploiting ever since.

https://quillette.com/2023/09/27/from-incunables-to-iphones/ 

 **Champlain Gives It Another Go**

In the twelfth instalment of an ongoing Quillette series on the history of Canada, Greg Koabel describes France’s halting efforts to create a permanent Canadian settlement in the early 1600s.

https://quillette.com/2023/09/27/the-french-give-it-another-go/ 

 **Old Model, New Tricks**

On the 85th anniversary of his death, a look back at the legacy of Nikolai Kondratiev and its implications for the coming age of GenAI.

https://quillette.com/2023/09/26/old-model-new-tricks/ 

 **Male or Female: There's Nothing In Between**

Since the dawn of our species, the evolution of two distinct sexes has been fundamental to human reproduction. There is no such thing as a ‘sex spectrum.’

https://quillette.com/2023/09/25/male-female-end-of-list/ 

 **The Cancellation of Bertrand Russell**

Eight decades later, the issues raised by the Russell case—the rights to free speech and academic freedom—have still not been settled.

https://quillette.com/2023/09/15/the-cancellation-of-bertrand-russell/ 

 **Sex Discrimination Without Sex**

Sex, according to the Australian Sex Discrimination Commissioner, means almost nothing at all.

https://quillette.com/2023/09/15/sex-discrimination-without-sex/ 

 **Dogmatism, Data, and Public Health**

A look back on the 2003 BMJ controversy over passive smoking and mortality.

https://quillette.com/2023/09/15/dogmatism-data-and-public-health/ 

 **History Matters**

A restoration of history, in all its complexity, is critical to escaping the polarized, rigid, and often insane political environment we now inhabit.

https://quillette.com/2023/09/14/history-matters/ 

 **Economics is Not a Game of Monopoly**

The standard textbook model of monopoly economics only applies to the real world in a narrow range of circumstances.

https://quillette.com/2023/09/14/economics-is-not-a-game-of-monopoly/ 

 **Podcast #223: Tracing the Roots of the Ideological Movement (Formerly) Known as Wokeness**

_Quillette_ podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with _The Identity Trap (https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/712961/the-identity-trap-by-yascha-mounk/?ref=quillette.com)_ author Yascha Mounk (https://twitter.com/Yascha_Mounk?ref=quillette.com) about the role of Karl Marx, Michel Foucault, Edward Said, and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak in shaping today’s illiberal, identity-fixated political mantras—and how we can help lead progressives back to their liberal roots.

https://cdn.quillette.com/2023/09/1500x500.jpg (https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/712961/the-identity-trap-by-yascha-mounk/?ref=quillette.com)

https://quillette.com/2023/09/14/tracing-the-intellectual-ancestry-of-the-ideological-movement-formerly-known-as-wokeness/ 

 **Academia’s Missing Men**

Men are disappearing from science and academia. The public perception is, however, exactly the opposite.

https://quillette.com/2023/09/11/the-shrinking-role-of-men-in-science-and-academia/ 

 **For a Time, a Pit Bull Gave Me Back My Son**

If I couldn’t openly love him, I would love what he loved.

https://quillette.com/2023/09/08/a-pit-bull-gave-me-back-my-son/ 

 **Israel’s Everywoman at War**

Helen Mirren’s Golda Meir offers a profile of greatness in the face of overwhelming adversity.

https://quillette.com/2023/09/08/israels-everywoman-at-war/ 

 **Ending the Hunger Games**

New pharmaceuticals appear to offer a genuine solution to the problem of excess appetite, that uncontrollable urge to eat more than we need to that keeps so many of us fat.

https://quillette.com/2023/09/07/ending-the-hunger-games/ 

 **Quillette Cetera Episode 16: Oppressed or Oppressor?**

Debating feminist philosopher Holly Lawford-Smith.

https://quillette.com/blog/2023/09/07/women-oppressed-or-oppressor/ 

 **Quillette Cetera Episode 16: Oppressed or Oppressor?**

Debating feminist philosopher Holly Lawford-Smith.

https://quillette.com/2023/09/07/women-oppressed-or-oppressor/ 

 **Whistling in the Dark**

Apprehensions of dog whistles and code words in political discourse are a desperate rearguard strategy to maintain a moral high ground.

https://quillette.com/2023/09/06/whistling-in-the-dark/ 

 **Unconscious Bias in Medicine: A Canard**

Evidence that clinical decisions are driven by unconscious bias remains conspicuously lacking.

https://quillette.com/2023/09/05/unconscious-bias-in-medicine-a-canard/ 

 **Our Lost Classical Learning**

The Western canon was not an unchanging set of texts, but an ongoing conversation that lasted thousands of years—enabling each generation to build on the intellectual heritage of the past.

https://quillette.com/2023/09/05/our-lost-classical-heritage/