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What’s Happening to Technological Progress?

Published by Hans Peter Dietz

Barely a day goes by that we are not confronted with another warning of impending catastrophe. If it’s not another global financial crisis, a nuclear war or Global Warming,...

February 21, 2019
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Lessons From a Recovering Identity Warrior

Published by Maziar Ghaderi

In 1988, my family fled Iran to seek political asylum in Canada. I was 5 years old. When we arrived, we did what all desperate immigrants from war-torn countries...

February 20, 2019
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I Know what Intersectionality Is, and I Wish it Were Less Important

Published by Nicholas Wolfinger

Having gestated in academia, Intersectionality has escaped into the broader world. It’s a foundational doctrine of third-wave feminism. It’s long had its own study group—the section on race, gender,...

February 20, 2019
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Women Needed a Magazine that Doesn’t Lie to Them. So I Started One

Published by Brittany Martinez

 As founder and editor-in-chief of a new web site aimed at women, I often get asked: Why do we need yet another publication in this already crowded media niche?...

February 20, 2019
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What Joan Didion Foretold About Campaign Socialism and Popularity

Published by Joe Hefferon

“In the understandably general yearning for “change” in the governing of this country, we might pause to reflect on just what is being changed, and by whom, and for...

February 20, 2019
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Alternative, Scientifically-Literate Guidelines for Psychological Practice with Boys and Men

Published by Gregory Gorelik

The American Psychological Association’s “Guidelines for Psychological Practice with Boys and Men” have received much criticism from journalists and professional psychologists. Much of the opposition has centered on the...

February 19, 2019
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ISIS Bride Should Be Judged for What She Did, Not Who She Is

Published by Louise Perry

In 2015, Shamima Begum was one of three teenage girls from Bethnal Green, London, who flew to Turkey and then travelled across the border into Syria with the intention...

February 18, 2019
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The Internet Locusts Descend on Ristretto Roasters

Published by Nancy Rommelmann

Camila worked for Ristretto Roasters, my husband Din’s coffee roasting company in Portland, Oregon, for five years. She received regular promotions and by 2016 was earning a mid-five figure salary. In...

February 18, 2019
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The Politically Homeless Life of a Gay Conservative 

Published by Brad Polumbo

I knew I was gay when I was eight years old, at least subconsciously. That was the first time I had that feeling, the one deep in my chest...

February 18, 2019
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Quillette Podcast 17 – Former Facebook engineer Brian Amerige on the company’s ambivalence towards free speech

Quillette‘s Jonathan Kay talks to Brian Amerige, a former software engineer at Facebook, about the company’s content moderation policy and why it is making a mistake in trying to...

February 19, 2019
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A Witch-Hunt on Instagram

by Kathrine Jebsen Moore

“Knitting is just so white. Let’s hope it gets better.” I overheard this puzzling remark in my local yarn store in Edinburgh, Scotland, last week. The store is in the affluent area of Marchmont, just outside the city centre. Its Edwardian and Victorian tenement flats, adjacent to huge green spaces, are popular with students and families alike. Two customers were chatting to the store...

February 17, 2019
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Polarisation and the Case for Citizens’ Juries

I It looks like liberal democracy is falling apart. But we can put it back together if we take democracy seriously enough—as seriously as the ancient Greeks. The chaos...

February 16, 2019
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High Theory and Low Seriousness

Sixty years ago today, just as Henderson the Rain King was going to print, Saul Bellow penned an article for the New York Times in which he warned against the perils of deep...

February 15, 2019
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Art, Free Speech, Poetry, recent

Poetic Injustice and Performative Outrage

On February 13, after almost a two month delay due to the U.S. government shutdown, the National Endowment for the Arts finally announced its recipients for the 2019 Creative Writing...

February 14, 2019
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Understanding China’s Confucian Edge in the Global AI Race

The American fugitive Edward Snowden triggered the West’s current (and ongoing) wave of concern over data privacy six years ago, when he revealed details about secret U.S. government programs...

February 14, 2019
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Language, Philosophy, recent

The Boy Who Inflated the Concept of ‘Wolf’

One of Aesop’s fables is about a shepherd boy who, out of boredom, repeatedly cries “Wolf!” when no wolf is present. As a result, the villagers lose faith in...

February 14, 2019
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Psychology, recent

We Need Guidelines for Working with Men, but Not the APA Guidelines

Men are more likely than women to kill themselves, but less likely to seek therapy. Research suggests part of the problem is that our general model for psychological therapy...

February 13, 2019
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February 18, 2019

ISIS Bride Should Be Judged for What She Did, Not Who She Is

In 2015, Shamima Begum was one of three teenage girls from Bethnal Green, London, who flew to Turkey and...

by Louise Perry
comments 133
February 17, 2019

Postmodern Philosophy is a Debating Strategy

In a recent article, Matt McManus drew a valuable distinction between postmodern culture and postmodern philosophy. Postmodern culture, he...

by Galen Watts
comments 129
February 17, 2019

A Witch-Hunt on Instagram

“Knitting is just so white. Let’s hope it gets better.” I overheard this puzzling remark in my local yarn...

by Kathrine Jebsen Moore
comments 404
February 16, 2019

Headline Rhymes

Have you heard ’bout the horrible hate crime? A TV star is beat up by two white guys But...

by Graham Verdon
comments 11
February 16, 2019

Polarisation and the Case for Citizens’ Juries

I It looks like liberal democracy is falling apart. But we can put it back together if we take...

by Nicholas Gruen
comments 104
February 15, 2019

High Theory and Low Seriousness

Sixty years ago today, just as Henderson the Rain King was going to print, Saul Bellow penned an article for the New York...

by Gustav Jönsson
comments 84
February 14, 2019

Poetic Injustice and Performative Outrage

On February 13, after almost a two month delay due to the U.S. government shutdown, the National Endowment for the...

by Clint Margrave
comments 101
February 14, 2019

Understanding China’s Confucian Edge in the Global AI Race

The American fugitive Edward Snowden triggered the West’s current (and ongoing) wave of concern over data privacy six years...

by Craig Smith
comments 33
February 14, 2019

The Boy Who Inflated the Concept of ‘Wolf’

One of Aesop’s fables is about a shepherd boy who, out of boredom, repeatedly cries “Wolf!” when no wolf...

by Spencer Case
comments 143
February 12, 2019

It Isn’t Your Imagination: Twitter Treats Conservatives More Harshly Than Liberals

This is a response to “Who Controls the Platform?“—a multi-part Quillette series authored by social-media insiders. Submissions related to...

by Richard Hanania
comments 143
February 12, 2019

Borking Neomi Rao

At the height of the #MeToo ferment over Judge Brett Kavanaugh, hundreds of Harvard and Yale law students shut...

by Heather Mac Donald
comments 116
February 11, 2019

How Social Justice Ideologues Hijacked a Legal Regulator

I have been a Toronto-based litigation lawyer for 30 years. My politics are progressive and strongly egalitarian. About two...

by Murray Klippenstein with Bruce Pardy
comments 228
February 11, 2019

The Confessions of a Male, Feminist Sex Addict

I had the privilege of growing up with wonderful females in my life—including my brilliant mother, who remains my...

by Eric Frances McKillen
comments 127
February 10, 2019

Public Education’s Dirty Secret

Bad teaching is a common explanation given for the disastrously inadequate public education received by America’s most vulnerable populations....

by Mary Hudson
comments 633
February 9, 2019

The Meaning of the Self-Destructive Strike at WSU

On January 22, a portion of the unionized faculty at Wright State University (WSU) in Dayton, Ohio went on...

by Evan Osborne
comments 57
February 9, 2019

Headline Rhymes

The Oscars without any host? That’s like avocado without any toast Or an eWoke with no one to roast...

by Graham Verdon
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February 9, 2019

The Plight of Pitch Wars

Allow me to preface this by saying I’m not a journalist, nor have I ever aspired to be one....

by J. Avery
comments 35
February 9, 2019

Punishing the Crime vs. Blacklisting the Soul

The assassination of Julius Caesar is known best for the fictional elements that Shakespeare and others invented. Caesar never...

by Jonathan Kay
comments 87
February 8, 2019

How Radical Transparency Cures Web Censorship and Surveillance

The article that follows is the third instalment of “Who Controls the Platform?“—a multi-part Quillette series authored by social-media insiders....

by Bill Ottman
comments 27
February 8, 2019

Are Anti-BDS Laws an Assault on Free Speech?

Last month, Senator Marco Rubio introduced the “Combating BDS Act”—“S.1,” for short—which, if passed, would enshrine the right of...

by Aaron Sibarium
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Top Stories

  • The Internet Locusts Descend on Ristretto Roasters
    The Internet Locusts Descend on Ristretto Roasters
  • Women Needed a Magazine that Doesn't Lie to Them. So I Started One
    Women Needed a Magazine that Doesn't Lie to Them. So I Started One
  • Alternative, Scientifically-Literate Guidelines for Psychological Practice with Boys and Men
    Alternative, Scientifically-Literate Guidelines for Psychological Practice with Boys and Men
  • I Know what Intersectionality Is, and I Wish it Were Less Important
    I Know what Intersectionality Is, and I Wish it Were Less Important
  • What Joan Didion Foretold About Campaign Socialism and Popularity
    What Joan Didion Foretold About Campaign Socialism and Popularity
  • A Witch-Hunt on Instagram
    A Witch-Hunt on Instagram
  • Public Education’s Dirty Secret
    Public Education’s Dirty Secret
  • ISIS Bride Should Be Judged for What She Did, Not Who She Is
    ISIS Bride Should Be Judged for What She Did, Not Who She Is
  • The New York Times Comes Out Against Free Speech
    The New York Times Comes Out Against Free Speech

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Headline Rhymes

Have you heard ’bout the horrible hate crime? A TV star is beat up by two white guys But the whole thing turns whack When the white guys turn...

February 16, 2019
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Public Education’s Dirty Secret

Published by Mary Hudson

Bad teaching is a common explanation given for the disastrously inadequate public education received by America’s most vulnerable populations. This is a myth. Aside from a few lemons who...

February 10, 2019
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Twelve Scholars Respond to the APA’s Guidance for Treating Men and Boys

Published by Quillette Magazine

Introduction — John P. Wright, Ph.D. John Paul Wright is a professor of criminal justice at the University of Cincinnati. He has published widely on the causes and correlates...

February 4, 2019
Culture Wars, Psychology, recent, Recommended

Liberal Orthodoxy and the New Heresy

Published by Erik Gilbert

I teach college in a small city in Arkansas, deep in the American Bible Belt. I am a historian of Africa and in my department that means that I...

February 4, 2019
Education, Recommended, Top Stories
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