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Rise of the Coronavirus Cranks

Published by Christopher J. Snowdon

I am no lockdown junkie. I’d like to get that straight before I explain why the most extreme variant of lockdown scepticism is rebarbative and destructive. I will never...

January 16, 2021
COVID-19, Health, Science, Spotlight, UK

Top Stories

Republicans’ Lyceum Moment—and America’s

Published by Brian Stewart

The assault on the US Capitol, not by foreign invaders but a domestic mob, left the American public (outside the most hardened and credulous pro-Trump precincts) bewildered and alarmed....

January 15, 2021
History, Politics, Top Stories, US Election

Britain Needs a New Approach to Homelessness

Published by Noel Yaxley

Author note: Some of the names in this essay have been changed in accordance with the wishes of those interviewed. “Out here, everyone’s taking something,” a man named Karl...

January 15, 2021
Health, Social Policy, Top Stories, UK

Philosophers Smear One of Their Own for Gender Heresy

Published by Nathan Cofnas

The appointing of Kathleen Stock—who advocates some pre-2015 views on gender identity—as an Officer of the Order British Empire last month mobilized woke philosophy Twitter like a five-alarm fire....

January 14, 2021
Free Speech, Philosophy, Top Stories, Women

The Wisdom of a Slave: A Defence of Stoicism

Published by Andrew David Irvine

We all have desires. We feel frustrated when we don’t get what we want and pleased when we do. Is this the secret to a happy life during times...

January 14, 2021
Philosophy, Top Stories

Ray Russell’s Incubus: A Lost Gem from America’s Twentieth Decade

Published by Kevin Mims

Hard as it might be to believe, the years that stretched from roughly 1967 through the bicentennial year of 1976 brought even more foment, outrage, unrest, and upheaval to...

January 13, 2021
Books, Cinema, Culture, History, Literature, Top Stories

Social-Media Oligopolists Are the New Railroad Barons. It’s Time for Washington to Treat Them Accordingly

Published by Quillette Magazine

In 1964, an Ohio Ku Klux Klan leader named Clarence Brandenburg told a Cincinnati-based reporter that his hate group would soon be holding a rally in a rural area...

January 11, 2021
Culture Wars, Science / Tech, Social Media, Top Stories

Podcast

PODCAST 133: Cheri Jacobus on How Donald Trump Used Twitter to Destroy People’s Lives (Including Hers)

Published by Quillette Magazine

Jonathan Kay speaks with Cheri Jacobus, a veteran Republican Party worker and conservative media figure who was mobbed and deplatformed after she called out Donald Trump for his abusive...

January 13, 2021
Podcast

PODCAST 132: Philippe Lemoine on the Case for Lockdown Skepticism

Published by Quillette Magazine

 Jonathan Kay speaks to Philippe Lemoine about problematic assumptions embedded in the models used to support COVID lockdown policy. Yes, separating people helps reduce virus transmission and saves lives....

January 6, 2021
Podcast

PODCAST 131: Professor Tania Reynolds on the Controversy Over Female Mentorship in Academia

Published by Quillette Magazine

University of New Mexico social psychologist Tania Reynolds speaks with Jonathan Kay about Nature Communications‘ questionable decision to retract a controversial article, the intrusion of ideology into scholarship about...

January 2, 2021
Podcast

PODCAST 130: Toby Young on the Free Speech Union, and His Campaign Against Cancel Culture

Published by Quillette Magazine

Jonathan Kay talks to colleague Toby Young about the fine line between journalism and activism, the politics of censorship, and his start-up year at the Free Speech Union

December 24, 2020
Podcast

PODCAST 129: Oren Cass on the Conservative Case for Labor Unions

Published by Quillette Magazine

As the conservative movement enters a period of post-Trump flux, American Compass CEO Oren Cass explains to Quillette‘s Jonathan Kay why a right-leaning coalition with organized labor now makes...

December 17, 2020
Podcast

PODCAST 128: Nicholas Christakis on ‘Apollo’s Arrow: The Profound And Enduring Impact of Coronavirus On The Way We Live’

Published by Quillette Magazine

Yale Sociologist and Physician Nicholas Christakis speaks to Quillette’s Jonathan Kay about the origins of COVID-19, how it compares to Bubonic Plague and Spanish Flu, and the way it...

December 10, 2020
Podcast

PODCAST 127: Historian Benny Morris on the Forgotten 19th-Century Genocide of Turkey’s Christians

Published by Quillette Magazine

Jonathan Kay speaks to famed Middle Eastern historian Benny Morris, whose latest book explores the ethnic cleansing of Turkey during the last decades of the Ottoman Empire

December 8, 2020
Podcast

PODCAST 126: Abigail Shrier on Her New Book About Peer Contagion and Gender Dysphoria

Published by Quillette Magazine

Jonathan Kay speaks to Wall Street Journal contributor Abigail Shrier about the sudden surge of teenage girls seeking gender reassignment, the backlash against her book…and the backlash against the...

December 6, 2020
Podcast

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My White Privilege Didn’t Save Me. But God Did

Published by Edie Wyatt

Following the furore over Netflix’s Cuties movie in the fall, Quillette editor-in-chief Claire Lehmann tweeted that the creepy conservative obsession with paedophilia is as bizarre as the feminist obsession...

December 7, 2020
Centrism, Criminology, Culture Wars, Environment, Family, Feminism, Genetics, Health, Identity, Memoir, Must Reads, Psychology, Religion, Top Stories, Women

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January 16, 2021

Rise of the Coronavirus Cranks

I am no lockdown junkie. I’d like to get that straight before I explain why the most extreme variant...

by Christopher J. Snowdon
January 15, 2021

Republicans’ Lyceum Moment—and America’s

The assault on the US Capitol, not by foreign invaders but a domestic mob, left the American public (outside...

by Brian Stewart
January 15, 2021

Britain Needs a New Approach to Homelessness

Author note: Some of the names in this essay have been changed in accordance with the wishes of those...

by Noel Yaxley
January 14, 2021

Philosophers Smear One of Their Own for Gender Heresy

The appointing of Kathleen Stock—who advocates some pre-2015 views on gender identity—as an Officer of the Order British Empire...

by Nathan Cofnas
January 14, 2021

The Wisdom of a Slave: A Defence of Stoicism

We all have desires. We feel frustrated when we don’t get what we want and pleased when we do....

by Andrew David Irvine
January 13, 2021

Ray Russell’s Incubus: A Lost Gem from America’s Twentieth Decade

Hard as it might be to believe, the years that stretched from roughly 1967 through the bicentennial year of...

by Kevin Mims
January 11, 2021

Social-Media Oligopolists Are the New Railroad Barons. It’s Time for Washington...

In 1964, an Ohio Ku Klux Klan leader named Clarence Brandenburg told a Cincinnati-based reporter that his hate group...

by Quillette Magazine
January 10, 2021

Songs from Orwell’s Glass Asylum

In 1947, the year David Bowie was born, a tubercular George Orwell shuffled over to the bedroom window of...

by David Cohen
January 10, 2021

To Expower the People

“Reckoning” is a new word in food-media vocabulary. For decades, food journalism flourished as a safe, G-rated corner of...

by Theodore Gioia
January 7, 2021

The Death of Political Cartooning—And Why It Matters

Six years ago, on January 7th, 2015, two brothers armed with Kalashnikov rifles assaulted a building on Rue Nicolas-Appert...

by Jack Reilly
January 6, 2021

A Misremembered Day of Infamy

Nothing illustrates better the extraordinary changes in America’s political culture than the almost furtive way in which the anniversary...

by Brian Stewart
January 3, 2021

Return of the Strong Gods: Understanding the New Right

And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches toward Bethlehem to be born? ~W.B. Yeats, “The...

by Jordan Alexander Hill
January 1, 2021

The Sexual Politics of Vasectomies

The fate of male reproductive organs is not a traditional concern in debates about the environment. But this is...

by Tanveer Ahmed
December 31, 2020

An Optimistic Outlook on 2021

The outlook, scientist Peter Turchin tells the Atlantic’s Graeme Wood, is bleak. Turchin thinks we are looking at another...

by Tony Morley
December 30, 2020

National Borders are Not Going Away

Editor’s note: This essay is adapted from a passage in Mark Moffett’s book, The Human Swarm: How Our Societies...

by Mark W. Moffett
December 29, 2020

The Future Is Already Here

There are not many ways to cause a stir in the classroom as an engineering professor, but one of...

by Joshua Schwartz
December 28, 2020

Higher Education Risks No Longer Being Worth It – Here’s How to Change Course

The coronavirus pandemic has led to a substantial decline in the demand for traditional four-year degrees, leading to a...

by Christos A. Makridis
December 28, 2020

“I Was Never More Hated Than When I Tried to Be Honest”

Ralph Ellison, author of the timeless American classic Invisible Man, was among the most commanding black literary voices to...

by Samuel Kronen
December 27, 2020

A Student Mob Took Over Bryn Mawr. The College Said Thank You

Ideology is a specious way of relating to the world. It offers human beings the illusion of an identity,...

by Minnie Doe
December 23, 2020

On Sex and Gender, The New England Journal of Medicine Has Abandoned Its Scientific...

Two years ago, “Titania McGrath,” whose satirical Twitter account regularly skewers the ideological excesses of social-justice culture, suggested that...

by Colin Wright
December 23, 2020

God and the Pandemic

If God gives you technology, use it to reach people! ~Rabbi David Eliezrie The Secret of Chabad During this...

by Joel Kotkin
December 22, 2020

A Peculiar Kind of Racist Patriarchy

We are frequently told by commentators and theorists on the progressive and liberal Left that we live in a...

by Rav Arora
December 21, 2020

Circling Back to My Grandfather’s Judaism, Seventy Years Later

I was born in Toronto in 1942. My earliest memories were Jewishly buoyant because of the excitement in my...

by Barbara Kay
December 20, 2020

An ‘Anti-Racist’ Mob Set Its Sights on Humble ‘Squampton.’ Here’s...

This is the sorry tale of how a confluence of unrelated developments—including the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, the excesses of...

by Brian Vincent
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podcast

PODCAST 133: Cheri Jacobus on How Donald Trump Used Twitter to Destroy People’s Lives (Including Hers)

Published by Quillette Magazine

Jonathan Kay speaks with Cheri Jacobus, a veteran Republican Party worker and conservative media figure who was mobbed and deplatformed after she called out Donald Trump for his abusive...

January 13, 2021
Podcast

PODCAST 132: Philippe Lemoine on the Case for Lockdown Skepticism

Published by Quillette Magazine

 Jonathan Kay speaks to Philippe Lemoine about problematic assumptions embedded in the models used to support COVID lockdown policy. Yes, separating people helps reduce virus transmission and saves lives....

January 6, 2021
Podcast

PODCAST 131: Professor Tania Reynolds on the Controversy Over Female Mentorship in Academia

Published by Quillette Magazine

University of New Mexico social psychologist Tania Reynolds speaks with Jonathan Kay about Nature Communications‘ questionable decision to retract a controversial article, the intrusion of ideology into scholarship about...

January 2, 2021
Podcast

PODCAST 130: Toby Young on the Free Speech Union, and His Campaign Against Cancel Culture

Published by Quillette Magazine

Jonathan Kay talks to colleague Toby Young about the fine line between journalism and activism, the politics of censorship, and his start-up year at the Free Speech Union

December 24, 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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A Student Mob Took Over Bryn Mawr. The College Said Thank You

Published by Minnie Doe

Ideology is a specious way of relating to the world. It offers human beings the illusion of an identity, of dignity, and of morality, while making it easier for...

December 27, 2020
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A Peculiar Kind of Racist Patriarchy

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We are frequently told by commentators and theorists on the progressive and liberal Left that we live in a systemically racist and patriarchal society. The belief that Western societies...

December 22, 2020
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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
Activism, Education, Recommended, Sex, Top Stories

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