The Best of Quillette
10+ most popular Quillette articles, as voted by our community.
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The Placebo Effect’s Evil Twin
The Nocebo Effect occurs when we experience pain, depression, or illness based on nothing more than negative expectations.
Quillette on Dedication
Rushdie’s Moral Heroism
The attempt on the great writer’s life illustrates the dedication with which fanatics pursue the objects of their hatred.
Quillette on Education
Why I Left Academia (Since You're Wondering)
I didn’t have a choice. Thousands of people are driven out of the profession each year.
What Progressive Educators Get Wrong About Creativity
Originality requires both knowledge and technical mastery.
Quillette on Energy Transition
Hyping the Energy Transition
Consumption of fossil fuels is growing faster than ever.
«Last year, according to data from the BP Statistical Review of World Energy, in both the US, and the world as a whole, the growth in hydrocarbons—oil, natural gas, and coal—far exceeded the growth of wind and solar by huge margins.»
Quillette on Game Theory
The Incentives for Groupthink
In thinking about the extraordinary capitulation of our institutions to the self-avowedly radical, ‘subversive’ and altogether pernicious forces of Marxism and intersectionality, there is a temptation…
Quillette on History
“There’s Nothing Mystical About the Idea that Ideas Change History”
An interview with Steven Pinker.
The Male Obsession with Ancient Rome
We are all Rome’s children. Its legacy is everywhere we look.
Quillette on Narcissism
Narcissism and Fraudulence
Intensive con artistry may be a narcissistic strategy for the avoidance of self-knowledge.
«For victimized minds, two wrongs make a right.»
Quillette on Politics
The Liberal Internationalist
A fine new book argues that the contemporary Left could learn a lot from the life and work of the late polemicist Christopher Hitchens.
Quillette on Society
Narcissism for All
Forty-five years ago, Christopher Lasch identified what has become a defining feature of modern activism—“the ever-present, neurotic need to be recognized and affirmed.”
The Crack-Up
How individual and civilisational identities collapse.
«mortgaging myself physically and spiritually up to the hilt.”»
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How Do They Know This?
An informative and apolitical new book reminds us that statistics are not always what they seem.
«But for the most part, official statistics are imperfect but good enough.»
Rethinking Authenticity
It is not a destination. It’s our ongoing life’s work as responsible adults.
The Seven Laws of Pessimism
If life is better than ever before, why does the world seem so depressing?
Against Authenticity
To be human is to be artificial.
«We are profoundly social animals with brains designed to absorb and assimilate our surrounding culture, beginning most dramatically with language.»
ChatGPT and the Future of the Professions
Professionals must learn to work with the machines or they will be replaced by them.
«ChatGPT and the Future of the Professions»
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