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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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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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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
comments 197
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
comments 139
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
comments 78
Philosophy, Top Stories

After Christchurch, Remember the Victims, But Resist the Urge to Blame

Published by Claire Lehmann

The terror attack in Christchurch, New Zealand—the largest terror event in Australasian history—carried out against a migrant community in a place of worship has left us all in shock....

March 16, 2019
comments 228
Editorial, Top Stories

The Environment Is too Important to Leave to Environmentalists

Published by Mallen Baker

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...

March 16, 2019
comments 240
Activism, Environment, Top Stories

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

Published by Jacob Willer

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...

March 14, 2019
comments 23
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Quillette Podcast 21 – Stand-Up Comedian Andrew Doyle Talks About Titania McGrath, His Brilliant Satirical Creation on Twitter

Toby Young talks to Andrew Doyle, stand-up comedian and Spiked-online columnist, about Titania McGrath, his satirical creation on Twitter who describes herself as a “radical intersectionalist poet committed to...

March 13, 2019
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The Sudden Unpopularity of Neoliberal Centrists

by Uri Harris

On Friday, Elizabeth Warren, a Democratic senator and 2020 presidential candidate, pledged that her administration would, “make big, structural changes to the tech sector to promote more competition — including breaking up Amazon, Facebook, and Google.” This would consist of two steps, she wrote. First, large tech platforms would be, “designated as ‘Platform Utilities’ and broken apart from any participant on that platform.” Platform...

March 14, 2019
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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 13, 2019
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Joe Rogan is the Walter Cronkite of Our Era

It is always tempting to believe that we live in historic times. It strokes the ego to think that decades from now, people will look back on current events...

March 12, 2019
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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 a Generation, which is currently being adapted for television by...

March 12, 2019
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Economics, recent, Sex

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 the last two millennia, he has been right so far....

March 12, 2019
comments 215
recent, Science, Sex

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 of Gina Rippon’s new book, The Gendered Brain: The New...

March 11, 2019
comments 190
History, Long Read, recent, Religion, Top Stories

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 Paris confirming what he had known since the early 1980s:...

March 10, 2019
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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
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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
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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
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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 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
comments 86
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
comments 215
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
comments 129
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
comments 253
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
comments 203
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
March 4, 2019

How Sweden’s Blind Altruism Is Harming Migrants

The 15-year-old boy was standing outside the police station, late one night during the immigration wave of 2015. I...

by Mustafa Panshiri
March 2, 2019

Lies, Damned Lies, and STEM Statistics

Concerns about the number of women in STEM are misplaced for three reasons. First, the definition of the “T”...

by Sean Welsh

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  • An Interview With Lisa Littman, Who Coined the Term ‘Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria’
    An Interview With Lisa Littman, Who Coined the Term ‘Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria’
  • Reparations and Ta-Nehisi Coates's Pyrrhic Victory
    Reparations and Ta-Nehisi Coates's Pyrrhic Victory
  • Why Elites Dislike Standardized Testing
    Why Elites Dislike Standardized Testing
  • Science Denial Won’t End Sexism
    Science Denial Won’t End Sexism
  • How a Fake Scandal Took Down a Brazilian Fashion Editor
    How a Fake Scandal Took Down a Brazilian Fashion Editor
  • News, Pre-News, Fake News, and Statistics
    News, Pre-News, Fake News, and Statistics
  • Why We Should Read Marx
    Why We Should Read Marx
  • After Christchurch, Remember the Victims, But Resist the Urge to Blame
    After Christchurch, Remember the Victims, But Resist the Urge to Blame
  • Why Renewables Can’t Save the Planet
    Why Renewables Can’t Save the Planet

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Trump was over the moon For his buddy Kim Jong Un This squabbling’s picayune For the Loon and the Buffoon I hope they make up soon Stay tuned Views...

March 2, 2019

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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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How I was Kicked Out of the Society for Classical Studies Annual Meeting

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I am a Classics Ph.D. who recently attended the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Society for Classical Studies (SCS—formerly the American Philological Association), a yearly conference that provides papers...

February 26, 2019
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