By Quillette
Narrated versions of selected Quillette essays.
The article delves into Jean-Luc Godard's transition from his early cinematic period, characterized by eclectic experimentation and cultural references, to his Maoist phase under the influence of Jean-Pierre Gorin. Gorin, a Marxist critic, introduced Godard to postmodernist and Marxist theories,...
The article titled "Toward Ruin or Recovery?" by Larissa Phillips explores the author's personal experience with rape in Italy in 1993 and reflects on the recent allegations made by Celeste Marcus against Yascha Mounk. Marcus, the managing editor of Liberties...
The article discusses the legacy and final works of filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard, who passed away in 2022 at the age of 91. It reflects on Godard's unconventional career, marked by experimental films and shifts in style and ideology. It mentions...
A restoration of history, in all its complexity, is critical to escaping the polarized, rigid, and often insane political environment we now inhabit.
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.
Greg Ellis reads Feast and Drink For Our Community’s Health, Claire Lehmann's essay about the meaning of Christmas. It was published in Quillette on 25th December 2018.
Greg Ellis reads Feast and Drink For Our Community's Health, Claire Lehmann's essay about the meaning of Christmas. It was published in Quillette on 25th December 2018.
Greg Ellis reads The Defenestration of Domingo, Heather Mac Donald's essay about how the famous opera singer fell victim to the #MeToo movement. It was published in Quillette on 18th October 2019.
Greg Ellis reads Are Canadians Becoming More Racist? This Week’s Election Proved the Opposite, Jonathan Kay's essay about the recent election in Canada.
Greg Ellis reads How David Graeber Cancelled a Colleague, Claire Lehmann's article on how a prominent anthropologist and self-styled anarchist tried to ruin the reputation of a former collaborator. It was published in Quillette on 9th September 2019.
Greg Ellis reads A Letter From Hong Kong, Peter Baehr's essay about the pro-democracy movement in the former British colony and its impact on his students. It was published in Quillette on 3rd September 2019.
Greg Ellis reads How An Anonymous Accusation Derailed My Life, Stephen Elliott's essay about being accused of rape on the Shitty Media Med list in 2017. It was published in Quillette on 25th September 2018.
Greg Ellis reads Universal Basic Income and the Threat of Tyranny, Shai Shapira's essay on why UBS could lead to despotism. It was published in Quillette on 9th October 2017.
Greg Ellis reads In Defense of Decency, Robert McLeod's essay arguing for more civility when we disagree with each other about politics and social justice.
Greg Ellis reads Coming Together to Honor a Dead Rock Star—And Ward Off Our Demons, Neil Gray's essay about the suicide of Scott Hutchinson of Frightened Rabbit. It was published in Quillette on 21st July 2019.
Greg Ellis reads Coming Together to Honor a Dead Rock Star-And Ward Off Our Demons, Neil Gray's essay about the suicide of Scott Hutchinson of Frightened Rabbit. It was published in Quillette on 21st July 2019.
Greg Ellis reads How Due Process Fell Victim to Good Intentions: A Veteran Court Reporter Looks Back, Christie Blatchford's essay about how due process has been eroded by the insistence that we should believe victims.
Greg Ellis reads Age of Amnesia, Joel Kotkin's essay on how the West is in danger of forgetting its own history.
Greg Ellis reads What They Don't Teach You at the University of Washington's Ed School, Nick Wilson's account of spending a year at what turned out to be Neo-Marxist madrasa
Greg Ellis reads Milan Kundera Warned Us About Historical Amnesia. Now It’s Happening Again, Ewan Morrison's essay celebrating the 90th birthday of the Czech novelist.
Greg Ellis reads Milan Kundera Warned Us About Historical Amnesia. Now It's Happening Again, Ewan Morrison's essay celebrating the 90th birthday of the Czech novelist.
Greg Ellis reads The Children of the Revolution, James David Banker's essay about China's cultural revolution.
Greg Ellis read's Ideology and Facts Collide at Oberlin College, Daniel McGraw's essay on the legal dispute between a bakery and the liberal arts college that ended with a $33 million payout to the small business.
Toby Young reads his essay on Boris Johnson, Britain's new Prime Minister. Toby first met Boris at Oxford 36 years ago.
Greg Ellis reads Watching My Own Excommunication—on a Facebook Video, Sky Gilbert's essay about being expelled from a theater company that he founded for being insufficiently woke.
Greg Ellis reads Watching My Own Excommunication-on a Facebook Video, Sky Gilbert's essay about being expelled from a theater company that he founded for being insufficiently woke.
Greg Ellis reads Immigration Policy and the Rise of Anti-Democratic Liberalism—the Case of Israel, Gadi Taub's essay about how Israel is struggling to cope with a rising tide of illegal immigration.
Greg Ellis reads Immigration Policy and the Rise of Anti-Democratic Liberalism-the Case of Israel, Gadi Taub's essay about how Israel is struggling to cope with a rising tide of illegal immigration.
Greg Ellis reads A MeToo Mob Tried to Destroy My Life as a Poet, Joseph Massey's harrowing account of being targeted by a Social Justice outrage mob.
Greg Ellis reads Divorce and the 'Silver Bullet,' James C. Coren's essay about the lies that couples tell when their marriages end in order to obtain custody of their children.
Greg Ellis reads Reparations and Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Pyrrhic Victory, Coleman Hughes's essay about how the cause of reparations got taken up by the front-runners for the Democratic Presidential nomination, thereby proving America isn't as racist as Coates claims.
Greg Ellis reads Reparations and Ta-Nehisi Coates's Pyrrhic Victory, Coleman Hughes's essay about how the cause of reparations got taken up by the front-runners for the Democratic Presidential nomination, thereby proving America isn't as racist as Coates claims.
Greg Ellis reads How a Rebellious Scientist Uncovered the Surprising Truth About Stereotypes, Claire Lehmann's article about Lee Jussim, the maverick social psychologist who discovered that stereotypes accurately predict academic achievement, personality and behaviour.
Greg Ellis reads Unpacking Peggy McIntosh's Knapsack, William Ray's critical essay about McIntosh's seminal 1989 paper that popularised the concept of 'white privilege.'
Greg Ellis reads The New Evolution Deniers, Colin Wright's essay about how the denial of evolutionary biology has migrated from the Christian Right to the secular Left. It was published in Quillette on 30th November 2018.
Greg Ellis reads When Censorship is Crowdsourced, Jonathan Kay's essay about the threat to free speech posed by outrage mobs on social media. It was published in Quillette on 9th September 2018.
Greg Ellis reads Sad Radicals, Conor Barnes's essay about how the pathologies that characterised his small anarchist sect have gone mainstream.
Greg Ellis reads I Was the Mob Until the Mob Came for Me, Barrett Wilson's essay about how he went from being a respected social justice crusader to driving for a food delivery app after being targeted by online activists...
Greg Ellis reads The High Price of Stale Grievances, Coleman Hughes's essay about whether the historic injustices suffered by African-Americans is a good reason for holding them to different standards than Americans of European ancestry
Greg Ellis reads Confessions of a 'Soulless Troglodyte', Lester Berg's account of his estrangement from the New York literary community following the election of Donald Trump
Greg Ellis reads PewDiePie's Battle for the Soul of the Internet, Allen Farrington's defence of the world's most popular YouTuber. It was published on 20th December 2018.
Greg Ellis reads The Public Humiliation Diet, Toby Young's account of losing five positions after being targeted by a Twitter outrage mob at the beginning of 2018. It was published on 23rd July 2018.
