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Opinions features commentary, analysis, and perspectives on the state of free speech, censorship, and digital rights. This category offers a platform for diverse voices to debate and reflect on pressing issues shaping the future of open expression.
In 1976, Peter Frampton was a guitar player who was respected among his more popular peers despite having enjoyed no…
If the treatment of gender dysphoric youth were treated like any other medical topic, there would be little controversy about…
In July 1998, the Rome Statute created the legal basis for the International Criminal Court (ICC), a body designed to…
The Science Misinformation Gap The transatlantic battle over social media and censorship. Read the full article here
In mid-2025, Bumble’s founder Whitney Wolfe Herd returned to the company she had left fourteen months earlier and offered a…
Progress inevitably creates Inescapable Existential Dangers (IEDs): technological developments that yield huge benefits with high extinction risks. The acceptance of…
The Northern Territory holds a special place in the Australian imagination: an endless outback, home to iconic Australian places like…
The Lumière awards in Paris are French cinema’s equivalent of the Golden Globes—not as coveted as the César awards, but…
IntroductionIn this week’s edition of the Quillette podcast, I talk to writer, journalist and cultural commentator Phoebe Maltz Bovy. Phoebe…
In this episode of the Quillette Cetera Podcast, Zoe Booth speaks with classicist James Kierstead about a question that has…
A Review of The Last Straight Woman: On Desiring Men by Phoebe Maltz Bovy, 288 pages, Penguin Random House (May…
The claim that Jews are imperialist “colonisers” isn’t new. It emerged from the Victorian-era antisemitism of an influential English journalist…