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When Children Protest, Adults Should Tell them the Truth

Last Friday, children in over 120 countries skipped school to follow the example of a Swedish 16-year-old who has become an international icon of climate change activism. Greta Thunberg’s...

March 21, 2019

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Towards a Worker’s Bill of Rights

Published by Gideon Scopes

The traditional understanding of civil liberties has been that citizens have individual rights that cannot be violated by the government. This approach has no doubt protected the inhabitants of...

March 21, 2019

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An Interview With Lisa Littman, Who Coined the Term ‘Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria’

Published by Jonathan Kay

In 2018, Lisa Littman, Assistant Professor of the Practice at the Brown University School of Public Health, published an article in the peer-reviewed journal PLOS ONE entitled Rapid-Onset Gender...

March 19, 2019

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The Mismeasurements of Stephen Jay Gould

Published by Russell T. Warne

Stephen Jay Gould, the famous 20th century paleontologist, published his most celebrated work, The Mismeasure of Man, in 1981. Gould’s thesis is that throughout the history of science, prejudiced...

March 19, 2019

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How a Fake Scandal Took Down a Brazilian Fashion Editor

Published by Raphael Tsavkko Garcia

If you’re looking for evidence of racial inequality in Brazil, it isn’t hard to find. Racism is a serious problem in my country, as indicated by statistics showing that...

March 19, 2019

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Reparations and Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Pyrrhic Victory

Published by Coleman Hughes

In 2014, Ta-Nehisi Coates was catapulted to intellectual stardom by a lengthy Atlantic polemic entitled “The Case for Reparations.” The essay was an impassioned plea for Americans to grapple...

March 17, 2019

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Politics, Top Stories

News, Pre-News, Fake News, and Statistics

Published by Steve Salerno

I’ve taken three lengthy Uber trips in the past month. Eventually, each of my drivers got around to asking what I did for a living. When I replied, ‟I...

March 17, 2019

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Media, Top Stories

Why We Should Read Marx

Published by Matt McManus

If Plato was a philosopher who wanted to use his ideas to change the world in practical ways, but had to settle for a towering intellectual legacy instead, then...

March 17, 2019

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Philosophy, Top Stories

Activism, Environment, recent

The Environment Is too Important to Leave to Environmentalists

The fact that belief in climate change in the US tends to correlate with political affiliation should tell you that we are not objectively interpreting the science as much...

recent, Review, Top Stories

Old Masters Remix: A review of ‘Life Death Rebirth’, the Michaelangelo/Bill Viola exhibition at the Royal Academy

The Royal Academy in London has mounted an exhibition with the very serious title of “LIFE DEATH REBIRTH,” putting video installations by the American artist Bill Viola (b.1951) together...

Economics, recent

What If Ayn Rand Was Right About Entrepreneurs and Inequality?

Few public figures have managed to consistently attract both sheer adoration and abject disgust quite like Russian-American author Ayn Rand. Fewer still have created an intellectual legacy with as...

Art, Entertainment, recent, Top Stories

The Folly of Disappearing Art and Culture

Following the harrowing recent documentary Leaving Neverland, which detailed sexual abuse allegations against Michael Jackson, executive producers of The Simpsons, James L. Brooks, Matt Groening, and Al Jean, have...

Law, recent, Top Stories

Paul Manafort and Systemic Bias

As we navigate the world, we attempt to understand the structures that surround us. And often, because we struggle with complexity and uncertainty, our putative knowledge comes packaged in...

Psychology, recent, Sex

Gender’s Journey from Sex to Psychology: A Brief History

There’s no relief from our current cultural conversation on transgender rights. Its implications touch all of us, and the media coverage is relentless. Here at Quillette alone, you may...

March 17, 2019

Reparations and Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Pyrrhic Victory

In 2014, Ta-Nehisi Coates was catapulted to intellectual stardom by a lengthy Atlantic polemic entitled “The Case for Reparations.”...

by Coleman Hughes

comments 228

March 17, 2019

Why We Should Read Marx

If Plato was a philosopher who wanted to use his ideas to change the world in practical ways, but...

by Matt McManus

comments 88

March 16, 2019

The Environment Is too Important to Leave to Environmentalists

The fact that belief in climate change in the US tends to correlate with political affiliation should tell you...

by Mallen Baker

comments 243

March 14, 2019

Old Masters Remix: A review of ‘Life Death Rebirth’, the Michaelangelo...

The Royal Academy in London has mounted an exhibition with the very serious title of “LIFE DEATH REBIRTH,” putting...

by Jacob Willer

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March 14, 2019

What If Ayn Rand Was Right About Entrepreneurs and Inequality?

Few public figures have managed to consistently attract both sheer adoration and abject disgust quite like Russian-American author Ayn...

by Cameron Hendy

comments 251

March 13, 2019

Why Elites Dislike Standardized Testing

On Tuesday, March 12 2019, federal prosecutors exposed a crooked college admissions consulting operation that bribed SAT administrators and...

by Daniel Friedman

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March 13, 2019

The Folly of Disappearing Art and Culture

Following the harrowing recent documentary Leaving Neverland, which detailed sexual abuse allegations against Michael Jackson, executive producers of The...

by Libby Emmons

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March 13, 2019

Paul Manafort and Systemic Bias

As we navigate the world, we attempt to understand the structures that surround us. And often, because we struggle...

by Max Hyams

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March 13, 2019

Gender’s Journey from Sex to Psychology: A Brief History

There’s no relief from our current cultural conversation on transgender rights. Its implications touch all of us, and the...

by Tomas Bogardus

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March 12, 2019

Down the Rabbit Hole of Political Intolerance in Silicon Valley

Editor’s note: Blake J. Harris is the bestselling author of Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined...

by Blake J. Harris and Clay Routledge

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March 12, 2019

Attraction Inequality and the Dating Economy

Jesus said that the poor would always be with us. Despite the best efforts of philanthropists and redistributionists over...

by Bradford Tuckfield

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March 11, 2019

Science Denial Won’t End Sexism

Last week, Nature, one of the top scientific journals in the world, ran a review written by Lise Eliot...

by Debra Soh

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March 10, 2019

The French Genocide That Has Been Air-Brushed From History

The Secret History On March 4 2011, the French historian Reynald Secher discovered documents in the National Archives in...

by Jaspreet Singh Boparai

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March 10, 2019

The Clear Case for Capitalism

At dinner not long ago my daughter and I had a standoff. She refused to eat something—a calzone in...

by Tyler Hogge

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March 10, 2019

Moral Zealotry and the Seductive Nature of Evil

A tempting fallacy about morality is to think that wickedness must arise from transparently abhorrent motives, and goodness from...

by Spencer Case

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March 9, 2019

Progressivism and the West

The biggest threat to Western civilization is posed not by other civilizations, but by our own pusillanimity—and by the...

by Bo Winegard

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March 6, 2019

In Defense of Andrew Yang’s Freedom Dividend

We should replace the ragbag of specific welfare programs with a single comprehensive program of income supplements in cash — a...

by Samuel Kronen

March 6, 2019

How Ed Schools Became a Menace to Higher Education

I. The Miseducation of College Administrators Years ago, at the college where I teach, some graffiti on a restroom...

by Lyell Asher

March 5, 2019

Thoreau and the Primitivist Temptation

When Edward Abbey died, his friends honored his wishes. They stopped at a liquor store for a few cases...

by Erich J. Prince

March 4, 2019

China is Gearing up for a Long Fight

On February 18, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced that a “sophisticated state-actor” had launched a cyber attack on...

by Nick Taber

Moral Zealotry and the Seductive Nature of Evil

Published by Spencer Case

A tempting fallacy about morality is to think that wickedness must arise from transparently abhorrent motives, and goodness from nice ones. Few explicitly endorse this crude dualism, but many...

March 10, 2019

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Philosophy, recent, Recommended

Progressivism and the West

Published by Bo Winegard

The biggest threat to Western civilization is posed not by other civilizations, but by our own pusillanimity—and by the historical ignorance that feeds it. ~Niall Ferguson I was wrong....

March 9, 2019

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Politics, Recommended

Why Renewables Can’t Save the Planet

Published by Michael Shellenberger

When I was a boy, my parents would sometimes take my sister and me camping in the desert. A lot of people think deserts are empty, but my parents...

February 27, 2019

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