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Defending Democracy with Drew Pavlou: Quillette Cetera Episode 34

The student activist discusses the risks that Iran, China, and Russia, and their Western sympathisers, pose to liberal democracies.

Zoe Booth

27 Apr 2024 · 1 min read

Academia Versus Civilization

The antisemitism of campus leftism may be incidental. The barbarism is the point.

Tal Fortgang / Jonathan Deluty

25 Mar 2024 · 16 min read

Pious Fraud, or the Moral Licence to Lie

Building worldviews and political movements on falsehoods destroys common sense-making, impedes effective policy design, and erodes social trust and cohesion.

Brandon McMurtrie

21 Mar 2024 · 5 min read

The author, pictured on a bridge in Amsterdam, in 1993, a few weeks before she was attacked.

Toward Ruin or Recovery?

The modern feminist response to rape is failing women, and it is failing victims of rape most of all.

Larissa Phillips

20 Mar 2024 · 34 min read

Are Climate Doomers for Real?

Activists of all stripes will continue to preach that the end of the world is nigh, but that doesn’t mean that we should take them seriously.

Maarten Boudry

18 Mar 2024 · 13 min read

Environmentalism Should Not Be Intersectional

Sustainable progress requires that ecological concerns be taken seriously and addressed rationally.

Gerfried Ambrosch

15 Feb 2024 · 11 min read

The Southern Poverty Law Center’s New Enemy: Americans Who Accept Biology

A new SPLC propaganda document claims to ‘expose’ a vast ‘Anti-LGBTQ+ Pseudoscience Network’ that’s supposedly targeting trans people.

The Quillette Editorial Board

27 Dec 2023 · 12 min read

A History of Feminist Antisemitism

The story of how activists and academics exchanged the struggle for universal female improvement for a politics of division and hatred.

Kara Jesella

15 Dec 2023 · 21 min read

Apostles of Appeasement

A short history of phoney peace groups and their fellow travellers.

Oscar Clarke

5 Dec 2023 · 10 min read

The Barbarian Evasions

Hamas’s progressive apologists seek self-justification in the moral incoherence of relativistic absolutism.

David A. Eisenberg

9 Nov 2023 · 3 min read

Neuroaffirmation—A Therapist’s Concerns

I worry about the unintended consequences of the neurodiversity movement, particularly when their demands are promulgated religiously and without nuance.