Timothy Cootes - Quillette

Yassmin Abdel-Magied: The Woman On Whom Everything Is Lost

The most charitable conclusion would be that she is either dishonest or deluded.

Timothy Cootes

20 Feb 2017 · 5 min read

A Good Word for the Contemptible Straight White Male

Nowadays, it’s morally and intellectually permissible to denigrate a group of people based on skin colour and gender, so long as they’re white and male.

Timothy Cootes

19 Feb 2017 · 5 min read

Are the Gender Wars Just Getting Started?

To get an idea of what’s in store for us next, Australians would do well to look at the debate over gender identity in Canada, where things have gotten, shall we say, mind-bogglingly odd.

Timothy Cootes

23 Dec 2016 · 5 min read

A Defence of Lionel Shriver: Identity Politicians Would Kill Literature if They Could

Shriver took aim at the devotees of identity politics, who occupy and conquer today’s university campuses.

Timothy Cootes

20 Sep 2016 · 4 min read

"Like" This Essay — The Case Against Social Media

Social media isn’t the cause of these crises in our culture; rather, there is a sense that it has betrayed its higher purpose.

Timothy Cootes

17 Jul 2016 · 6 min read

The Masochists Who Defend Sadists: The Regressive Left in Theory and Practice

John Pilger, Michael Moore, Tariq Ali, Arundhati Roy, and the Stop the War Coalition have shown their commitment to barbarism.

Timothy Cootes

22 Jan 2016 · 16 min read

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Dismiss Radical Feminism

Don’t throw the word ‘misogyny’ at every man with an obtuse opinion. Do so, and you will denude the word of all its meaning and all its power.

Timothy Cootes

14 Dec 2015 · 8 min read