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Virginia Giuffre became the face of the Epstein scandal.
But her dates shifted, she withdrew her claim against Alan Dershowitz, and DOJ investigators called parts of her story problematic.
Few journalists checked the record. @Jay_Beecher does š
quillette.com/2026/11/11/impā¦
American Doctor, a documentary following three US physicians who volunteered in Gaza, has drawn near-unanimous praise from critics.
In Quillette, Gary Geipel makes the case that the film's acclaim masks a problem of method. The film gives almost no dates, circumstances or verifiable detail for the deaths and injuries it shows, while still asking audiences to accept a charge of genocide.
quillette.com/2026/11/10/posā¦
What does a 19th-century Prussian sect have in common with a California cult obsessed with AI doom?
More than you'd think. @jonkay reviews @MrAndyNgoās new book on the Zizians, a tiny group linked to eight deaths, alongside Christopher Clark's history of a Kƶnigsberg scandal.
quillette.com/2026/11/10/a-tā¦
Exorcist II: The Heretic was called "the stupidest major movie ever made," and at one preview the studio executives had to flee the theatre.
A new documentary, Boorman and the Devil, revisits the fiasco, and @TomDohertyfilmās essay looks at the whole genre of books and films that dissect Hollywood's greatest flops.
quillette.com/2026/11/09/disā¦
.@simonmontefiore's The Cauldron attempts something few historians would risk: a single-volume history of the Middle East from Morocco to Iran, from 1900 to the present. Reviewing it for Quillette, Benny Morris finds it a remarkable achievement, vivid on the region's coups, dynasties and atrocities. He is also blunt about its slips on the ArabāIsraeli wars.
quillette.com/2026/11/09/a-cā¦
Frank Capra, the man who made Itās a Wonderful Life was once the biggest director in Hollywood. A decade later, he was making educational films for a phone company. What went wrong?
quillette.com/2026/11/07/manā¦
"So today is a great age of crisis. We are alive to see the dismembering of the liberal ethic in America to the cheering of one hundred million of its citizens, at the same time as society waits to learn whether what may prove one of the most consequential technologies in human history thrusts us into paradise, or the opposite"
quillette.com/2026/11/06/aftā¦
Democracy, liberalism, the postwar order: everything is said to be ending. Medieval Christians felt the same about the world itself.
Harry Seavey on why every age thinks it stands at history's turning point.
quillette.com/2026/11/06/aftā¦
Three years ago, Robert King argued that Russell Brand was āthe sort of man your mother warned you about.ā In the 18th century, King suggests, a man like that would have been challenged to a duel. Today we have courts instead.
quillette.com/2023/11/06/theā¦
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Trump won't be able to hand his cult of personality to the next guy any more than Stalin, Mao or PerĆ³n could.
Michael J. Totten on why the midterm rout ends Trumpism: quillette.com/2026/11/05/truā¦
"This is the problem with interfaith politics. Aside from the platitudes, the niceties, the tea and biscuits (or samosas, when a token Hindu or Sikh is included), thereās been a consistent failure to acknowledge or confront intolerant and extreme ideas embedded in foundational scriptures."
- @Singhtwo2
The race for Virginia's 5th District is still too close to call, and one of the candidates was America's envoy to Sudan.
Sudan's last civilian prime minister says he couldn't get a proper meeting with him. The generals who overthrew him could.
@CMechtaly's new essay draws on months of interviews with Sudanese democrats and chemical-weapons survivors to examine Tom Perriello's Sudan record.
Should a candidate's foreign-policy track record matter to voters at home?
quillette.com/2026/11/03/sidā¦
As US Special Envoy to Sudan, Tom Perriello was sent to help return the country to civilian rule. Sudanese democrats say his choices empowered the very networks that buried it.
The latest by @CMechtaly
quillette.com/2026/11/03/sidā¦
"Our short time on Earth is staggeringly precious. The fact that we are here at all makes us winners of the greatest lottery the universe ever held. There have been more than two trillion sunsets since the Earth formed. Iāll be around for almost none of them. Like trillionaires fighting over pennies, we often waste our lives nursing petty resentments, chasing status, and worrying about what strangers think of us."
- Robert Lynch
quillette.com/2026/11/02/howā¦
The former deputy mayor of Jerusalem @FleurHassanN on her familyās Sephardi history, 7 October, and why she wants Jewish students to study in Israel.
Interview by @PamelaParesky šļø
quillette.com/2026/11/03/fleā¦
We work in order to retire, exercise in order to live longer, and even rest in order to be more productive.
We treat every hour as preparation for some future payoff, but some of the best ways to spend a life accomplish nothing at all, writes Robert Lynch.
quillette.com/2026/11/02/howā¦
āNetanyahu certainly facilitated the transfer of Qatari funds to Hamas to keep the organisation quiescent in Gaza, a policy that blew up in Netanyahuās and Israelās face on 7 October.ā
quillette.com/2026/10/31/isrā¦
Israel's election produced no winner ā and 19 Arab-held seats that could decide who governs.
Benny Morris on the new kingmakers, and why a war with Iran may still rescue Netanyahu.
quillette.com/2026/10/31/isrā¦
Charlemagne: brutal warlord, or āa savant with a large library and a taste for the obscureā?
Historian @j_t_palmer explores this polarising figure.
quillette.com/2026/10/30/theā¦
After an inconclusive election, Israelās Arab parties hold the balance of powerābut a renewed war with Iran may yet hand Netanyahu another chance.
The latest by Benny Morris.
quillette.com/2026/10/31/isrā¦