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The Ugly History of Rape Panics

Published by Jerry Barnett

The abduction and murder of Sarah Everard in London on March 3rd created a wave of outrage and protest. It is easy to understand why a crime like this...

Activism, Crime, Feminism, Politics, Top Stories

Stopped Cold: Remembering Russia’s Catastrophic 1939 Campaign Against Finland

Published by Sean McMeekin

While the Germans had been flexible on the fine print of their August 23rd, 1939 non-aggression pact with the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin had been meticulous with his own...

Europe, History, Russia, Top Stories, World Affairs

Europe, China, and the New Global Hierarchy

Published by Aaron Sarin

Seen from Beijing, Europe is an Asian peninsula. ~Angela Merkel For more than 20 years the Chinese Communist Party engaged the world wearing the mask of smiling diplomacy, and...

China, Europe, Politics, Top Stories, World Affairs

Australian Indigenous Activists Call Out White Feminism’s Deadly Blind Spot

Published by Edie Wyatt

In March, three Indigenous women flew to Canberra in an attempt to draw attention to a horror story playing out in their communities. These were Alice Springs Deputy Mayor...

Australia, Culture Wars, Feminism, Human Rights, Identity, Top Stories, Women

Podcast 145: Sean McMeekin on ‘Stalin’s War: A New History of World War II’

Published by Quillette Magazine

Quillette’s Jonathan Kay speaks with Bard University history professor Sean McMeekin about his new book, which describes how the fears and ambitions of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin shaped the...

Podcast, Top Stories

Rinaldo Walcott’s On Property—A Review

Published by Jonathan Salem-Wiseman

A review of On Property by Rinaldo Walcott. Biblioasis, 96 pages (May 25th, 2021) The true founder of civil society was the first man who, having enclosed a piece...

BLM, Books, Crime, History, Human Rights, Top Stories

Activism, Crime, Feminism, Politics, Top Stories

The Ugly History of Rape Panics

The abduction and murder of Sarah Everard in London on March 3rd created a wave of outrage and protest. It is easy to understand why a crime like this...

Europe, History, Russia, Top Stories, World Affairs

Stopped Cold: Remembering Russia’s Catastrophic 1939 Campaign Against Finland

While the Germans had been flexible on the fine print of their August 23rd, 1939 non-aggression pact with the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin had been meticulous with his own...

China, Europe, Politics, Top Stories, World Affairs

Europe, China, and the New Global Hierarchy

Seen from Beijing, Europe is an Asian peninsula. ~Angela Merkel For more than 20 years the Chinese Communist Party engaged the world wearing the mask of smiling diplomacy, and...

Australia, Culture Wars, Feminism, Human Rights, Identity, Top Stories, Women

Australian Indigenous Activists Call Out White Feminism’s Deadly Blind Spot

In March, three Indigenous women flew to Canberra in an attempt to draw attention to a horror story playing out in their communities. These were Alice Springs Deputy Mayor...

Podcast, Top Stories

Podcast 145: Sean McMeekin on ‘Stalin’s War: A New History of World War II’

Quillette’s Jonathan Kay speaks with Bard University history professor Sean McMeekin about his new book, which describes how the fears and ambitions of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin shaped the...

BLM, Books, Crime, History, Human Rights, Top Stories

Rinaldo Walcott’s On Property—A Review

A review of On Property by Rinaldo Walcott. Biblioasis, 96 pages (May 25th, 2021) The true founder of civil society was the first man who, having enclosed a piece...

Economics, Education, Identity, Politics, Social Science, Top Stories

The Permanence of Segregation

[It] is sentimental and romantic to assume that any education or any example will ever completely destroy the inclination of human nature to seek special advantages at the expense...

Activism, COVID-19, Culture, Culture Wars, Diversity, Health, Identity, Mental Health, Privilege, Psychology, Science, Sex, Top Stories

The Search to Explain Our Anxiety and Depression: Will ‘Long COVID’ Become the Next Gender Ideology?

In December, I wrote a detailed report for Quillette about the race-based social panic that had recently erupted at Haverford College in Pennsylvania. One of the reasons why the...

Art, COVID-19, Entertainment, Philosophy, Sport, Top Stories

Splendid Triviality: Philosophy, Art, and Sport in a Time of Crisis

One of my philosophy professors in college remarked that philosophy flourishes in a time of decline or crisis. No, that doesn’t mean that philosophers all secretly pray for catastrophes....

Diversity, Diversity Debate, Education, Identity, Privilege, Top Stories

Can You Teach Children to be Anti-Racist?

In 1935, Richard Clarke Cabot, a professor of clinical medicine and social ethics at Harvard University, began one of the first randomized controlled experiments in the field of social...