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Chernobyl Forty Years On

How fear, misinformation, and myth came to define the world’s worst nuclear accident.

Marco Visscher 26 Apr 2026 · 12 min read

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Statecraft and Seduction

In an excellent new biography of Rasputin, British military historian Antony Beevor argues that perception can be a more powerful shaper of world events than reality.

Ron Capshaw 23 Apr 2026 · 9 min read

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The Roots of Recession

As an energy shock looms, a new book reframes recession as the product of historical circumstance, not cyclical inevitability.

Joel Kotkin 24 Apr 2026 · 11 min read

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A Note from the Editor in Chief

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Oil tanker at sunset.

The Roots of Recession

As an energy shock looms, a new book reframes recession as the product of historical circumstance, not cyclical inevitability.

Joel Kotkin 24 Apr 2026 · 11 min read

Abandoned fairground with ferry wheel and bare trees.

Chernobyl Forty Years On

How fear, misinformation, and myth came to define the world’s worst nuclear accident.

Marco Visscher 26 Apr 2026 · 12 min read

Black and white image of Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin. He is heavily bearded and is raising a hand, looking straight at the viewer.

Statecraft and Seduction

In an excellent new biography of Rasputin, British military historian Antony Beevor argues that perception can be a more powerful shaper of world events than reality.

Ron Capshaw 23 Apr 2026 · 9 min read

A Note from the Editor in Chief Newsletter

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What Did You Think Decolonisation Meant?

Maarten Boudry 20 Apr 2026 · 7 min read

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The Wrong Man

Michael J. Totten 17 Apr 2026 · 11 min read

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Francesca Albanese and the Perversion of Academia

Norman J.W. Goda 2 Apr 2026 · 12 min read

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The Many Roots of Our Suffering: Reflections on Robert Trivers (1943–2026)

Steven Pinker 25 Mar 2026 · 16 min read

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Girls in an Online World

Girls in an Online World

Iona Italia, Quillette, Freya India 24 Apr 2026 · 1 min read

Documenting a Decade of Academic Meltdowns

Documenting a Decade of Academic Meltdowns

Quillette 21 Apr 2026 · 3 min read

Podcast #333: The Search for Truth

Podcast #333: The Search for Truth

Quillette, Michael Shermer, Iona Italia 9 Apr 2026 · 1 min read

Podcast #332: The Historical Case for Israel

Podcast #332: The Historical Case for Israel

Quillette 7 Apr 2026 · 3 min read

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Letters to the Editor

Quillette 23 Apr 2026 · 2 min read

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In the Air Tonight

Jacob Bielecki 23 Apr 2026 · 12 min read

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Can Blackface Be Anti-Racist?

Jacques Berlinerblau 22 Apr 2026 · 10 min read

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Apocalypse Soon?

Henry I. Miller 22 Apr 2026 · 8 min read

Canada’s 215 Imaginary Martyrs

Canada’s 215 Imaginary Martyrs

Jonathan Kay 21 Apr 2026 · 9 min read

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What Did You Think Decolonisation Meant?

Maarten Boudry 20 Apr 2026 · 7 min read

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The Professor and the Pariah

Michael Cohen 20 Apr 2026 · 7 min read

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Hasan Piker Is the Enemy

Brian Stewart 19 Apr 2026 · 10 min read

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The UN’s Historically Selective Denunciation of Human Bondage

Brian Stewart 18 Apr 2026 · 9 min read

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Infinite Ingenuity: Andy Weir’s Optimistic Vision in ‘Project Hail Mary’

Iona Italia 17 Apr 2026 · 14 min read

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The Wrong Man

Michael J. Totten 17 Apr 2026 · 11 min read

The Iran War: An Explainer

The Iran War: An Explainer

Quillette 17 Apr 2026 · 5 min read

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