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Resisting the Mourner’s Veto

Published by Christopher J. Ferguson

Controversy recently erupted at Penguin Random House when it was announced that the company would be publishing Canadian clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson’s forthcoming book. Peterson rose to prominence in...

December 3, 2020
Activism, Culture Wars, Free Speech, Spotlight

Top Stories

The Flawed Reasoning of the Techlash and Progressive Movements

Published by Dirk Auer

Around the globe, governments are looking for ways to tax, fine, regulate, or break up Big Tech—part of a reaction against companies like Google and Amazon that has become...

December 3, 2020
Culture Wars, Science / Tech, Social Media, Tech, Top Stories

Why Do Progressives Support the Unfettered Use of Private Property?

Published by Samuel E. Miller

In mid-October, Twitter took the unprecedented step of preventing its users from sharing a link to a New York Post story reporting allegations about the Biden family’s foreign financial...

December 3, 2020
Free Speech, Politics, Science / Tech, Social Media, Tech, Top Stories

The Apocalyptic Threat from Artificial Intelligence Isn’t Science Fiction

Published by James D. Miller

The person in the photo that sits to the left of this paragraph does not exist. It was generated using Artificial intelligence (AI), which can now generate pictures of...

December 3, 2020
AI Debate, Science, Science / Tech, Top Stories

Despised—A Review

Published by Henry George

A review of Despised: Why the Modern Left Loathes the Working Class by Paul Embery. Polity, 216 pages (November 2020) In the 2019 British general election, the Labour Party...

December 2, 2020
Politics, Review, Top Stories, UK

Race and Social Panic at Haverford: A Case Study in Educational Dysfunction

Published by Jonathan Kay

“You have continued to stand as an individual that seems to turn a blind eye to the stuff that’s going on, as a black woman that is in the...

December 1, 2020
Activism, BLM, Diversity, Diversity Debate, Education, Free Speech, Social Media, Top Stories

The Attack on Beauty

Published by Marilyn Simon

There is a pop song by Canadian artist Alessia Cara that my daughters have learned to sing in their school choir. The song is “Scars to Your Beautiful.” It...

December 1, 2020
Feminism, Philosophy, Top Stories, Women

The Heretical Impulse: Zamyatin and Orwell

Published by Riley Moore

I  In a 1931 letter to Joseph Stalin, Russian novelist Yevgeny Zamyatin adopted a respectful tone by way of introduction: “My name is probably known to you.” The author...

December 1, 2020
Books, Politics, Top Stories

Reinventing Racism—A Review

Published by Samuel Kronen

A review of Reinventing Racism by Jonathan D. Church. Rowman & Littlefield, 250 pages (December 2020) If the release of Robin DiAngelo’s 2018 book White Fragility: Why It’s So...

November 30, 2020
Activism, BLM, Culture Wars, Identity, Politics, Review, Top Stories
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PODCAST 125: Yale School of Public Health Professor David Paltiel on Computer Modelling of COVID-19 Vaccination Programs

Published by Quillette Magazine

Jonathan Kay speaks to public health expert David Paltiel about his newly published mathematical models, which show how mass vaccination could help end the COVID-19 pandemic

November 28, 2020
Podcast

PODCAST 124: Shelby Steele, Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, on ‘What Killed Michael Brown?’

Published by Quillette Magazine

Author Shelby Steele speaks to Quillette’s Jonathan Kay about white guilt, the ‘poetic truth’ of Ferguson, the dead end of racial grievances, and the creative process of working with...

November 23, 2020
Podcast

PODCAST 123: Washington-Based Journalist Brad Polumbo on LGBT Politics in the Pre- and Post-Trump Eras

Published by Quillette Magazine

Brad Polumbo speaks to Quillette’s Jonathan Kay about life as a gay conservative journalist in Washington, D.C., the politics of outing Republican lawmakers, the complex political tensions between LGB...

November 20, 2020
Podcast

PODCAST 122: Former Harvard Medical School Dean Jeffrey Flier, on This Week’s Good News About the Hunt for a COVID-19 Vaccine

Published by Quillette Magazine

Jeffrey Flier—physician, endocrinologist, researcher, and 21st Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Harvard University—speaks to Quillette’s Jonathan Kay about Pfizer’s recent announcement that its candidate COVID-19 vaccine was...

November 14, 2020
Podcast

PODCAST 121: Jamil Jivani on the Inconvenient Truth About Donald Trump’s Non-White Supporters

Published by Quillette Magazine

While Trump’s hopes of a second Presidential term seem to be vanishing, his surprisingly strong showing among Black, Hispanic, Muslim, and Asian voters is challenging the progressive claim that...

November 6, 2020
Alt-Right, BLM, Diversity, Diversity Debate, Identity, Podcast, Politics, Top Stories, US Election

PODCAST 120: Jodi Shaw on a Climate of Fear at Smith College, Following Unproven Racism Accusations

Published by Quillette Magazine

A whistleblower at an elite Massachusetts women’s college talks to Jonathan Kay about how a single 2018 incident on campus unleashed public-shaming measures that targeted the school’s lowest paid...

November 3, 2020
Podcast

PODCAST 119: Cult expert and deprogrammer Rick Ross on NXIVM, founder Keith Raniere, and the many tactics cults use to exploit the unwary

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Rick Ross, executive director of the nonprofit Cult Education Institute, speaks with Quillette’s Jonathan Kay about infamous cult leader (and now convicted felon) Keith Raniere, who spent 14 years...

October 26, 2020
Podcast

PODCAST 118: Novelist Lionel Shriver talks to Toby Young about intellectual conformity, being a lockdown sceptic, and her new book

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Literary superstar Lionel Shriver talks to Toby Young about the pandemic, the rush to embrace Covid orthodoxy by politicians and scientists, and the suppression of dissenting voices by big...

October 26, 2020
Podcast

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Gender Activists Are Trying to Cancel My Book. Why is Silicon Valley Helping Them?

Published by Abigail Shrier

The day after I tweeted about the ongoing attempts to block sales of my book, Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters, I was stuck on the phone...

November 7, 2020
Activism, Books, Diversity Debate, Health, Identity, Must Reads, Sex, Top Stories, Women

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December 3, 2020

Resisting the Mourner’s Veto

Controversy recently erupted at Penguin Random House when it was announced that the company would be publishing Canadian clinical...

by Christopher J. Ferguson
December 3, 2020

The Flawed Reasoning of the Techlash and Progressive Movements

Around the globe, governments are looking for ways to tax, fine, regulate, or break up Big Tech—part of a...

by Dirk Auer
December 3, 2020

Why Do Progressives Support the Unfettered Use of Private Property?

In mid-October, Twitter took the unprecedented step of preventing its users from sharing a link to a New York...

by Samuel E. Miller
December 3, 2020

The Apocalyptic Threat from Artificial Intelligence Isn’t Science Fiction

The person in the photo that sits to the left of this paragraph does not exist. It was generated...

by James D. Miller
December 2, 2020

Despised—A Review

A review of Despised: Why the Modern Left Loathes the Working Class by Paul Embery. Polity, 216 pages (November...

by Henry George
December 1, 2020

Race and Social Panic at Haverford: A Case Study in Educational Dysfunction

“You have continued to stand as an individual that seems to turn a blind eye to the stuff that’s...

by Jonathan Kay
December 1, 2020

The Attack on Beauty

There is a pop song by Canadian artist Alessia Cara that my daughters have learned to sing in their...

by Marilyn Simon
December 1, 2020

The Heretical Impulse: Zamyatin and Orwell

I  In a 1931 letter to Joseph Stalin, Russian novelist Yevgeny Zamyatin adopted a respectful tone by way of...

by Riley Moore
November 30, 2020

Reinventing Racism—A Review

A review of Reinventing Racism by Jonathan D. Church. Rowman & Littlefield, 250 pages (December 2020) If the release...

by Samuel Kronen
November 30, 2020

Relearning How to Read in the Age of Social Media

However amusing the meme or moving the pictures, reading—not gazing—remains the cornerstone of our civilisation. People who don’t actively...

by Joe Nutt
November 29, 2020

Will Biden Resurrect the Iran Deal?

President Elect Joe Biden has stated his intention to return the United States to the multilateral deal hatched during...

by Art Keller
November 29, 2020

I’m a Professor from an Immigrant Family. Please Stop Telling Me That My University...

On June 24th, the University of Calgary leadership team published its response to an open letter, dated June 9th,...

by Theodore Pennington
November 27, 2020

Desperation and the Quest for Control: The Dangers of Alternative Medicine

I am a skeptic and a curmudgeon, so I was surprised when a friend of 30 years asked if...

by S. Stiles
November 26, 2020

The Videogame That Takes Us Inside the Hell of a Nazi-Run World

For almost 20 years, Hearts of Iron has been a prominent franchise in the videogame genre known as “grand...

by Carlos Miguel del Callar
November 25, 2020

Robin DiAngelo’s Misreading of Michel Foucault

This article is lightly adapted from the author’s new book Reinventing Racism: Why ‘White Fragility’ Is the Wrong Way...

by Jonathan Church
November 25, 2020

A Brief History of China’s One-Child Policy

Liu Fang once had the job of policing the women in her village. She made sure that none of...

by Aaron Sarin
November 25, 2020

A Loss of Direction and the Rise of Populisms

Since the end of World War II, we have mostly been living in the Age of Moderation—an epoch characterized...

by Joseph B. Juhasz and András Tóth
November 24, 2020

Shoulders of Giants

Editor’s note: This is an excerpt from Chapter One of The Power of Explicit Teaching and Direct Instruction by Greg...

by Greg Ashman
November 24, 2020

Freak Power: The Ballot or the Bomb—A Review

Fifty years ago, in a small mountain town in Colorado, a young writer led a band of misfits against...

by David S. Wills
November 23, 2020

Retracting a Controversial Paper Won’t Help Female Scientists

Imagine yourself as a newly hired female assistant professor and the delight you feel when you learn that your...

by Tania Reynolds
November 23, 2020

Why Is Scientific Illiteracy So Acceptable?

In the mid-1980s, when I taught a Physics for Poets class at Yale University, I was dumbstruck when I...

by Lawrence M. Krauss
November 22, 2020

The Life and Death of Unus Annus

We live our lives taking each second for granted. But what would you do if you knew how much...

by Nathan Eatwell
November 22, 2020

The Fragility of Modern Education in the Time of COVID-19

Modern education is arguably the most massive feat of social engineering ever attempted by humanity and one of the...

by David C. Geary
November 22, 2020

On the Trail of Delusion—A Review

A review of On the Trail of Delusion—Jim Garrison: The Great Accuser by Fred Litwin. NorthernBlues Books, 466 pages...

by Gerald Posner
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podcast

PODCAST 125: Yale School of Public Health Professor David Paltiel on Computer Modelling of COVID-19 Vaccination Programs

Published by Quillette Magazine

Jonathan Kay speaks to public health expert David Paltiel about his newly published mathematical models, which show how mass vaccination could help end the COVID-19 pandemic

November 28, 2020
Podcast

PODCAST 124: Shelby Steele, Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, on ‘What Killed Michael Brown?’

Published by Quillette Magazine

Author Shelby Steele speaks to Quillette’s Jonathan Kay about white guilt, the ‘poetic truth’ of Ferguson, the dead end of racial grievances, and the creative process of working with...

November 23, 2020
Podcast

PODCAST 123: Washington-Based Journalist Brad Polumbo on LGBT Politics in the Pre- and Post-Trump Eras

Published by Quillette Magazine

Brad Polumbo speaks to Quillette’s Jonathan Kay about life as a gay conservative journalist in Washington, D.C., the politics of outing Republican lawmakers, the complex political tensions between LGB...

November 20, 2020
Podcast

PODCAST 122: Former Harvard Medical School Dean Jeffrey Flier, on This Week’s Good News About the Hunt for a COVID-19 Vaccine

Published by Quillette Magazine

Jeffrey Flier—physician, endocrinologist, researcher, and 21st Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Harvard University—speaks to Quillette’s Jonathan Kay about Pfizer’s recent announcement that its candidate COVID-19 vaccine was...

November 14, 2020
Podcast

China Syndrome

The China Syndrome Part IV: Did China Fudge its Data?

Published by Philippe Lemoine

Note: This is the concluding part of a four-part series of essays looking in detail at China’s role in the COVID-19 pandemic. Part One looked at the circumstances surrounding...

September 6, 2020
China, China Syndrome Series, COVID-19, Health, Long Read, World Affairs

The China Syndrome Part III: Wet Markets and BioLabs

Published by Philippe Lemoine

Note: This is the third part of a four-part series of essays looking in detail at China’s role in the COVID-19 pandemic. Part One looked at the circumstances surrounding...

September 2, 2020
China, China Syndrome Series, COVID-19, Health, Long Read, World Affairs

The China Syndrome Part II: Transmission and Response

Published by Philippe Lemoine

Note: This is the second part of a four-part series of essays looking in detail at China’s role in the COVID-19 pandemic. Part One looked at the circumstances surrounding...

August 29, 2020
China, China Syndrome Series, COVID-19, Health, Long Read, World Affairs

The China Syndrome Part I: Outbreak

Published by Philippe Lemoine

Note: This is the first part of a four-part series of essays looking in detail at China’s role in the COVID-19 pandemic. This part looks at the circumstances surrounding...

August 24, 2020
China, China Syndrome Series, COVID-19, Health, Long Read, Top Stories, World Affairs

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I Signed Up to Study Sexual Health. What I Got Was Gender Ideology, Fetishism, and Porn

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I am not a conspiracy theorist. And as recently as a year and a half ago, if someone had told me the things I am reporting here, I would...

October 31, 2020
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September 23, 2020
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This week, Vox published an article titled “How Beethoven’s 5th Symphony put the classism in classical music.” “Since its 1808 premiere, audiences have interpreted [its opening progression] as a...

September 19, 2020
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