Claire Lehmann
@clairlemon
Founder, editor @quillette, contributing writer @australian, @thedispatch 📧 subscribe: https://quillette.com/#/portal/signup
Noah clearly knows nothing about Australian politics. That's our Prime Minister, Noah, not our president. (Isn't he magnificent?)
The President of Australia is this wombat:
100% true x.com/wylfcen/status…
Bertrand Russell wrote a self-help book on how to be happy called “The Conquest of Happiness” (1930). Some of the passages are pretty funny.
The conservative pundit doth protest too much, methinks x.com/MattWalshBlog/…
One of my least popular (but still correct) opinions is that adultery should be a criminal offense punishable by serious prison time for both parties involved
People in 1978 were like: "Yup, exactly what I was going for: all the colors a hibernating toad might experience on a drizzly November day in a hollow log."
Please don't. x.com/elonmusk/statu…
We’re going to make Baby Grok @xAI, an app dedicated to kid-friendly content
SAHMs are real, tradwives aren't. I'm a young woman and my greatest aspiration in life is to be a wife and mother—I think there are few roles that could possibly be greater than that—and I will say that openly and have for years but I still find the trad stuff dumb and alarming.…
I've been thinking hard about the "tradwife isn't real" debate and I've landed here: I want young women to feel ok saying their great aspiration in life it to be a wife and mother. I want my girls to feel ok if the big thing they want to do is get married and raise a family.
The other day I said “trad wives aren’t real” & was probably too blunt. Staying home with kids esp. when they’re v little is ofc optimal. My point was that the glam “trad wife” life on social media isn’t real. Here’s me in my 20s with my kids (it was hard work--not glamorous)!
I remember when this woman was taken very seriously.
I don’t even know what this is, Salem MA
In Australia, surrogacy can only be carried out for altruistic reasons, meaning it can’t be commercialised. Am surprised it remains so unregulated in the US nypost.com/2025/07/18/us-…
Robert Caro, LBJ's biographer, here describes how hauling buckets of water for farms that needed 200 buckets a day deformed even the strongest young women's bodies in horrifying ways. Rural electrification ended that after 1935, thanks mainly to LBJ. randomhouse.com/knopf/authors/…
For most of modern history, a woman’s job was to cart water in & out of the home. Pails of water were heavy & required multiple trips per day—this work made women stoop & caused them pain. The period when women were at home with labour saving devices, indoor plumbing & heating,…
Mothers forced to work to survive in two income households are miserable. They are living under impossible expectations and families are suffering. They're beyond exhausted. Grieving because they have had the choice of having more children removed from them due to needing to work…
A hundred years from now people won't be able to tell that these buildings were built in 2002 and not the 18th century (one reason why this should happen more often) x.com/SCP_Hughes/sta…
Dresden. Every building pictured dates from the last twenty years, the result of a 2002 municipal referendum in which the city decisively voted in favour of reconstructing its historic centre.
A common misconception among first-year social work students is the assumption—often viewed through a racial lens—that Black or Brown individuals inherently have worse experiences in America than white individuals.
I loved to talking to @RoyaTheWriter about her memoir about growing up as a Jewish girl in revolutionary Iran. The full interview will be forthcoming on the @Quillette podcast soon. Here's a tiny teaser (unedited video). riverside.fm/shared/exporte… #RiversideFM
Claire and I are similarly situated: we're bearish on the postwar order, but bullish on the Internet. For the full episode with @clairlemon: 📺YouTube: youtu.be/PCoegnhTaDs 🔊Spotify: tinyurl.com/n2r25jtk 🍎Apple: tinyurl.com/28vr7a94
But it is a luxury to be/have a SAHM. It's a luxury that might be worth it, but, at least today, it's still a luxury in a time of skyrocketing prices for family goods (as opposed to consumer goods) like housing, healthcare, and education, and it's a luxury that comes with certain…
Look, it's hard to distinguish what "tradwife" means, but I know a ton of families where mom stayed home even though things weren't financially comfortable. Saying "it's a luxury" is a sneering dismissal of the work of these women.
The eagle has landed. For years, I tried everything to take control over my drinking: AA, therapy, Smart Recovery, Moderation Management, yoga, cleanses, CBT, CBD, moving to new cities and states. Long term, nothing worked. But then I stumbled across a treatment I’d never heard…
A tribute to a brilliant writer and a journalist of great integrity and candour. By @RonRadosh. quillette.com/2025/07/18/sol…