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The Supreme Leader’s Reckoning

The brutality the security forces are unleashing in Iran is not an improvisation. It is doctrine.

Roya Hakakian 27 Jan 2026 · 6 min read

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Who Got the Camera?

The right-wing response to recent events in Minneapolis indicates that MAGA conservatives are determined to repeat the mistakes made by Daryl Gates 35 years ago.

Dilan Esper 26 Jan 2026 · 6 min read

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That Other Greenland Standoff

In April 1940, Danes, Germans, Brits, Americans, and Canadians had designs on the world’s largest island. Eighty-five years later, many of their arguments sound eerily familiar.

Greg Koabel 28 Jan 2026 · 22 min read

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Black and white photograph showing people in heavy winter clothing standing in a snow-patched landscape with debris scattered on the ground.

That Other Greenland Standoff

In April 1940, Danes, Germans, Brits, Americans, and Canadians had designs on the world’s largest island. Eighty-five years later, many of their arguments sound eerily familiar.

Greg Koabel 28 Jan 2026 · 22 min read

Crowd gathered on a city street at night as a person throws an object towards a burning tyre during a street protest.

The Supreme Leader’s Reckoning

The brutality the security forces are unleashing in Iran is not an improvisation. It is doctrine.

Roya Hakakian 27 Jan 2026 · 6 min read

Armed law enforcement personnel in tactical gear deploy less-lethal launchers amid smoke during a crowd control operation on an urban street.

Who Got the Camera?

The right-wing response to recent events in Minneapolis indicates that MAGA conservatives are determined to repeat the mistakes made by Daryl Gates 35 years ago.

Dilan Esper 26 Jan 2026 · 6 min read

Editors’ Choice 2025

The Quillette Editorial Board 31 Dec 2025 · 10 min read

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They Don’t Believe It Either

Maarten Boudry 19 Oct 2025 · 13 min read

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An Uneasy Peace

Benny Morris 15 Oct 2025 · 15 min read

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The Problem with Alt. Media

Matt Johnson 13 Oct 2025 · 14 min read

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The Melbourne Crimewave

Andrew Bushnell 11 Oct 2025 · 10 min read

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The Genocide Libel

Andrew Fox 9 Oct 2025 · 24 min read

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Podcast #322: The Demise of Private Life

Podcast #322: The Demise of Private Life

Quillette 29 Jan 2026 · 1 min read

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Inside Iran’s Deadly Protests with Shay Khatiri | Quillette Cetera Ep. 61

Zoe Booth, Shay Khatiri 20 Jan 2026 · 26 min read

Podcast #321: Understanding Journalistic Groupthink

Podcast #321: Understanding Journalistic Groupthink

Quillette, Graham Majin 18 Jan 2026 · 2 min read

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Zoe Booth 14 Jan 2026 · 26 min read

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The Alaa Abd El-Fattah Case and the Limits of Human Rights Law

Guy Baldwin, Zoe Booth 30 Jan 2026 · 6 min read

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Cousin Marriage and Inbreeding: A Genetic History

Zoe Booth, Francisco Ceballos 22 Jan 2026 · 7 min read

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Why Australia Struggles to Confront Islamic Antisemitism — and What This Means for Social Cohesion

Zoe Booth, Alan Davison 12 Jan 2026 · 7 min read

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How Doctors Without Borders Became a Political Actor in Gaza

Gerald M. Steinberg, E. Levenson, Zoe Booth 29 Dec 2025 · 7 min read

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Why Is Substack Caught Up in Australia’s Social Media Ban?

Dara Macdonald 28 Jan 2026 · 7 min read

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The Destruction and the Resurrection

Hannah Gal 26 Jan 2026 · 11 min read

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The New Holocaust Deniers

Michael Shermer 26 Jan 2026 · 14 min read

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A Lucky History

Sean Welsh 25 Jan 2026 · 12 min read

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Australia and the Clash of Worlds

Iona Italia 25 Jan 2026 · 7 min read

Getting to Denmark

Getting to Denmark

Adam Garfinkle 25 Jan 2026 · 13 min read

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A Self-Conscious Nation

Adam Wakeling 25 Jan 2026 · 15 min read

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An Enlightened Beginning

Tony Abbott 25 Jan 2026 · 5 min read

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A Different Kind of Palaver

Juliet Moses 23 Jan 2026 · 8 min read

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Iran’s Weekend of Blood

Shay Khatiri 23 Jan 2026 · 7 min read

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Fanon and the Ayatollahs

Aurele Tobelem 22 Jan 2026 · 11 min read

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Risky, Costly, and Extremely Cold

Sean Welsh 22 Jan 2026 · 9 min read

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