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The Pitfalls of Too Much Security

Published by Gideon Scopes

Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. —Benjamin Franklin Earlier this year, my mother fell and broke her...

December 17, 2018
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Aristophanes’ Orphans: A Disabled Trans Woman Surveys the Grey Zone Between Love and Fetish

Published by Emma McAllister

Since I first read Plato’s Symposium, I have been fond of Aristophanes’ account of the origin of love. The tale goes something like this. Human beings used to be...

December 18, 2018
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Don’t Deny Girls the Evolutionary Wisdom of Fairy-Tales

Published by Amy Alkon

The view from moral high ground is best enjoyed after the check (for whatever you’re moralizing against) clears. Rather like animal-rights activists who own a string of steakhouses, Disney...

December 16, 2018
comments 135
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Quillette Podcast 6 – Coleman Hughes on Progressive Orthodoxy in the Ivy League

Canadian editor Jonathan Kay talks to Coleman Hughes, Quillette columnist and Columbia University student, about being out of step with the prevailing orthodoxy at an Ivy League college, classical...

December 13, 2018
comments 11

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Sad Radicals

by Conor Barnes

When I became an anarchist I was 18, depressed, anxious, and ready to save the world. I moved in with other anarchists and worked at a vegetarian co-op cafe. I protested against student tuition, prison privatization, and pipeline extensions. I had lawyer’s numbers sharpied on my ankle and I assisted friends who were pepper-sprayed at demos. I tabled zines, lived with my “chosen family,”...

December 11, 2018
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What Can We Learn from Dictators’ Literature?

Dictators, of course, are terrible people. They also tend to be terrible writers. Yet many tyrants have entertained the illusion that they were literary super geniuses. Mein Kampf and...

December 14, 2018
comments 89
Economics, Politics, recent, Tech

Video Games and the (Male) Meaning of Life

Virtual worlds give back what has been scooped out of modern life . . . it gives us back community, a feeling of competence, and a sense of being...

December 14, 2018
comments 177
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“I Now Understand How Nelson Mandela Felt”

My name is Titania McGrath. I am a radical intersectionalist poet committed to feminism, social justice, and armed peaceful protest. In April of this year, I decided to become more...

December 13, 2018
comments 273
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The Demise of Gawker: An Interview with Ryan Holiday

Ryan Holiday is the author of Trust Me, I’m Lying and numerous other books about marketing and culture. Holiday dropped out of college at 19, and by age 20...

December 13, 2018
comments 64
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Inside a Google Summit on Diversity and Inclusion

How could any reasonable person oppose diversity and inclusion in the workplace? Answer: Because “diversity and inclusion” in the work context is actually a euphemism for something else. During...

December 11, 2018
comments 90
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Not All Dead White Men—A Review

A review of Not All Dead White Men: Classics and Misogyny in the Digital Age, by Donna Zuckerberg. Harvard University Press, October 8, 2018 (288 pages). How To Be...

December 11, 2018
comments 72

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December 17, 2018

Denial and the Free Speech Crisis

In a recent article for Quillette, Dan Meegan, an associate professor of psychology at the University of Guelph, argues...

by Rose Clark
comments 71
December 16, 2018

Headline Rhymes

There once was a man who was woman MVP? She was a shoe-in With hands like the feet Of...

by Graham Verdon
comment 1
December 14, 2018

A Night Out with a Muslim and an Atheist

On Dec. 10, “Islam and the Future of Tolerance” held its West Coast premiere in Los Angeles after an...

by Andy Ngo
comments 129
December 14, 2018

What Can We Learn from Dictators’ Literature?

Dictators, of course, are terrible people. They also tend to be terrible writers. Yet many tyrants have entertained the...

by Daniel Kalder
comments 89
December 14, 2018

Video Games and the (Male) Meaning of Life

Virtual worlds give back what has been scooped out of modern life . . . it gives us back...

by Andrew Yang
comments 177
December 13, 2018

“I Now Understand How Nelson Mandela Felt”

My name is Titania McGrath. I am a radical intersectionalist poet committed to feminism, social justice, and armed peaceful protest....

by Titania McGrath
comments 273
December 11, 2018

Not All Dead White Men—A Review

A review of Not All Dead White Men: Classics and Misogyny in the Digital Age, by Donna Zuckerberg. Harvard...

by Jaspreet Singh Boparai
comments 72
December 11, 2018

Progressive Creationism: A Review of ‘A Dangerous Idea’

In a recent article for Quillette, Colin Wright argued that left-wing scientific denialism poses a greater threat to academic...

by Toby Young
comments 308
December 11, 2018

What Does the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Mean Today?

“What is man, that you are mindful of him, human beings that you should care for them?” The question...

by Alexandra Hudson
comments 36
December 9, 2018

A Surfeit of Empathy and an Absence of Compassion

As a parent of an ROGD teen, it has been so disheartening to see so few mainstream sources publishing...

by Samuel Veissière
comments 142
December 9, 2018

Orwell and the Anti-Totalitarian Left in the Age of Trump

I In his review of Pascal Bruckner’s new book, An Imaginary Racism: Islamophobia and Guilt, Nick Cohen begins with...

by Matt Johnson
comments 130
December 8, 2018

What Happened When We Tried to Debate Immigration

Immigration and diversity politics dominate our political and public debates. Disagreements about these issues lie behind the rise of...

by Matthew Goodwin and Eric Kaufmann
comments 122
December 7, 2018

Headline Rhymes

Some insist we’re a blank slate on which we write what we want Others say we’re a Kindle book...

by Graham Verdon
comments 5
December 7, 2018

Take It from Someone Who Has Suffered Real Physical Abuse: Words Aren’t...

Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women....

by Alexandra Berryhill
comments 93
December 7, 2018

Academics’ Mobbing of a Young Scholar Must be Denounced

The latest victim of an academic mobbing is 28-year-old social scientist Noah Carl who has been awarded a Toby...

by Quillette Magazine
comments 277
December 4, 2018

Understanding the Miracle of Hanukkah Through the Ancient World’s Prism of...

Satirist Alan King once famously remarked that the story behind every Jewish holiday can be summarized as “They tried...

by Jonathan Kay
comments 44
December 4, 2018

The New Patriarchy: How Trans Radicalism Hurts Women, Children—and Trans People...

“I knew by the time I was eight that I didn’t want to be a boy,” says Melissa. “But...

by Helen Joyce
comments 268
December 4, 2018

The Flawed History and Real Torment of Canada’s Residential Schools

Brian Tuesday was a little Ojibway boy when he was taken from his home at the Big Grassy River...

by Robert MacBain
comments 29
December 4, 2018

The Divided Kingdom

A Review of  National Populism: The Revolt Against Liberal Democracy by Roger Eatwell and Matthew Goodwin, Pelican (October 25,...

by Helen Dale
comments 43
December 3, 2018

The One-sided Worldview of Eco-Pessimists

This essay draws in part on the authors’ new book Population Bombed! Exploding the Link Between Overpopulation and Climate...

by Joanna Szurmak and Pierre Desrochers

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  • Don't Deny Girls the Evolutionary Wisdom of Fairy-Tales
    Don't Deny Girls the Evolutionary Wisdom of Fairy-Tales
  • Sad Radicals
    Sad Radicals
  • A Surfeit of Empathy and an Absence of Compassion
    A Surfeit of Empathy and an Absence of Compassion
  • The Ideology of Corbynism
    The Ideology of Corbynism
  • Video Games and the (Male) Meaning of Life
    Video Games and the (Male) Meaning of Life
  • Denial and the Free Speech Crisis
    Denial and the Free Speech Crisis
  • "I Now Understand How Nelson Mandela Felt"
    "I Now Understand How Nelson Mandela Felt"
  • Academics' Mobbing of a Young Scholar Must be Denounced
    Academics' Mobbing of a Young Scholar Must be Denounced
  • A Night Out with a Muslim and an Atheist
    A Night Out with a Muslim and an Atheist

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Not All Dead White Men—A Review

A review of Not All Dead White Men: Classics and Misogyny in the Digital Age, by Donna Zuckerberg. Harvard University Press, October 8, 2018 (288 pages). How To Be...

December 11, 2018
comments 72
Review, Top Stories

Progressive Creationism: A Review of ‘A Dangerous Idea’

In a recent article for Quillette, Colin Wright argued that left-wing scientific denialism poses a greater threat to academic freedom than right-wing scientific denialism. In the past, evolutionary biologists...

December 11, 2018
comments 308

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Academics’ Mobbing of a Young Scholar Must be Denounced

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The latest victim of an academic mobbing is 28-year-old social scientist Noah Carl who has been awarded a Toby Jackman Newton Trust Research Fellowship at St Edmund’s College at...

December 7, 2018
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