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When Sons Become Daughters: It’s Time to Admit That Reflexive ‘Affirmation’ Has Been a Mistake

Published by Angus Fox

What follows is the seventh and final instalment of When Sons Become Daughters, a Quillette series that explores how parents react when a son announces he wants to be...

June 18, 2021
Activism, Bioethics, Culture Wars, Diversity, Family, Health, Identity, Mental Health, Neurodiversity, Sex, Social Media, Spotlight, Women

What Are Dads Good For?

Published by Herman Goodden

Last weekend, our lone London, Ontario-residing child somehow got it into her head (and successfully implanted the idea into ours as well) that it was Father’s Day and came...

June 18, 2021
Canada, Family, Memoir, Spotlight

Top Stories

The Conservative Case for Cannabis Legalization

Published by Matthew Roy Ackerman

Last November, more than 75 percent of voters in Mississippi voted to legalize medical marijuana. By February, neighboring Alabama’s Senate had passed its own legalization bill for the third...

June 15, 2021
Culture Wars, Politics, Social Policy, Top Stories

The ‘Lab Leak’ Inquiry at the State Department

Published by Christopher Ashley Ford

The following essay was originally posted at the author’s Medium blog here. In both journalism and policymaking—if not always in politics, or in the sordid world of score-settling by...

June 14, 2021
China, COVID-19, Foreign Policy, Long Read, Security, Top Stories, World Affairs

Why Is the Society for American Archaeology Promoting Indigenous Creationism?

Published by Elizabeth Weiss and James W. Springer

In April, one of us—Elizabeth Weiss—gave a talk, titled Has Creationism Crept Back into Archaeology?, at the 86th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology (SAA). The 87-year-old...

June 13, 2021
Anthropology, Culture Wars, Free Speech, Genetics, Health, History, Identity, Migration, Top Stories

One ‘Maverick’ Documents Another—Jason Riley’s Biography of Thomas Sowell

Published by Wilfred Reilly

A review of Maverick: A Biography of Thomas Sowell, by Jason Riley. Basic Books, 240 pages (May, 2021). Thomas Sowell is an icon. And, now, he has a biographer....

June 13, 2021
Economics, Philosophy, Review, Top Stories

The Purposeless Society

Published by Sam Ashworth-Hayes

Humans are wired to think in terms of purposeful social agents and their objectives, and to tell themselves stories. In every culture, there are myths that tell its members...

June 13, 2021
Culture, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Top Stories

Silicon Valley’s ‘Mission Protocol’ Revolution Is Beginning to Attain Critical Mass

Published by Peter Savodnik

In December 2004, during Ukraine’s Orange Revolution, I spent a night in one of the many tents that had been pitched in Kiev’s central square. There were five of...

June 11, 2021
Activism, Culture Wars, Diversity, Diversity Debate, Media, Science / Tech, Tech, Top Stories

How the (Much Maligned) Mongol Horde Helped Create Russian Civilization

Published by Marie Favereau

If the great nomadic regime born from the Mongol expansion of the 13th century were projected on today’s maps, it would stretch across a region occupied by Ukraine, Bulgaria,...

June 11, 2021
Asia, Europe, History, Identity, Migration, Top Stories

Could an Invisible Military Laser Steal Your Privacy?

Published by Art Keller

In early 2006, I sat in the Pashtun tribal areas on the Af/Pak border. When not rinsing grit out of my teeth from the thick fog in the air,...

June 10, 2021
Foreign Policy, Middle East, Science / Tech, Security, Top Stories

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Podcast #154: Jonathan Rauch on Free Speech and Tackling Misinformation

Published by Quillette Magazine

Quillette‘s Toby Young talks to free speech advocate and Brookings Institution Fellow Jonathan Rauch about his new book The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defence of Truth. It’s a follow-up...

June 17, 2021
Podcast

Podcast #153: Michael Shermer on Our Enduring Fascination with UFOs

Published by Quillette Magazine

Quillette’s Jonathan Kay talks to UFO expert Michael Shermer about why we keep searching the skies for signs of alien visitors (and why we always come away disappointed).

June 14, 2021
Podcast

Podcast #152: Nicholas Wade Explains Why It’s No Longer Taboo to Ask Whether COVID-19 Was Caused by a Chinese Lab Leak

Published by Quillette Magazine

Quillette’s Razib Khan speaks with veteran science writer Nicholas Wade about why so many scientists and journalists are now exploring theories about the origins of COVID-19 that, not so...

June 7, 2021
Podcast

Podcast #151: Kenny Xu on Asian-Americans’ Success, And Their Complicated Placement in the Progressive ‘Intersectional’ Hierarchy

Published by Quillette Magazine

Host Jonathan Kay speaks with conservative activist, book author, and Quillette contributor Kenny Xu about the pressures that Asian-Americans now face to toe the line on progressive race orthodoxies—including...

May 28, 2021
Podcast

Podcast #150: Helen Pluckrose on the Role of Postmodernism in the Construction of Modern Social-Justice Dogmas

Published by Quillette Magazine

Quillette founder Claire Lehmann speaks with Cynical Theories co-author (and Grievance Studies Hoax collaborator) Helen Pluckrose about the influence of postmodern ideas in the formulation of the latest iterations...

May 25, 2021
Podcast

Podcast #149: Lingnan University scholar Peter Baehr on Academic Life Within Hong Kong’s Increasingly Repressive Political Atmosphere

Published by Quillette Magazine

Quillette’s Jonathan Kay speaks with Hong Kong-based professor Peter Baehr about the many ways in which free speech and democratic politics are being suppressed by China’s mainland communist government.

May 14, 2021
Podcast

Podcast #148: Bernard Lane on the Fight for a More Balanced Approach Toward Children Seeking Medicalized Gender Change

Published by Quillette Magazine

Quillette Editor-in-Chief Claire Lehmann talks to The Australian writer Bernard Lane about the severe risks associated with rushing gender dysphoric children into puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgery—and the...

May 10, 2021
Podcast, Top Stories

Podcast #147: Richard Hanania on the Real Reason Progressives Are Winning the Culture War: They Just Want It More

Published by Quillette Magazine

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to Richard Hanania, President of the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology, about his much-discussed essay, Why is Everything Liberal? Cardinal...

April 30, 2021
Podcast

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James Baldwin and the Trouble with Protest Literature

Published by Samuel Kronen

“The hardest thing in the world to do,” wrote Ernest Hemingway in a 1934 article for Esquire, “is to write straight honest prose on human beings. First you have...

May 2, 2021
Activism, Books, Human Rights, Identity, Literature, Long Read, Must Reads, Philosophy, Top Stories

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Culture Wars, Politics, Social Policy, Top Stories

The Conservative Case for Cannabis Legalization

Last November, more than 75 percent of voters in Mississippi voted to legalize medical marijuana. By February, neighboring Alabama’s Senate had passed its own legalization bill for the third...

June 15, 2021
China, COVID-19, Foreign Policy, Long Read, Security, Top Stories, World Affairs

The ‘Lab Leak’ Inquiry at the State Department

The following essay was originally posted at the author’s Medium blog here. In both journalism and policymaking—if not always in politics, or in the sordid world of score-settling by...

June 14, 2021
Anthropology, Culture Wars, Free Speech, Genetics, Health, History, Identity, Migration, Top Stories

Why Is the Society for American Archaeology Promoting Indigenous Creationism?

In April, one of us—Elizabeth Weiss—gave a talk, titled Has Creationism Crept Back into Archaeology?, at the 86th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology (SAA). The 87-year-old...

June 13, 2021
Economics, Philosophy, Review, Top Stories

One ‘Maverick’ Documents Another—Jason Riley’s Biography of Thomas Sowell

A review of Maverick: A Biography of Thomas Sowell, by Jason Riley. Basic Books, 240 pages (May, 2021). Thomas Sowell is an icon. And, now, he has a biographer....

June 13, 2021
Culture, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Top Stories

The Purposeless Society

Humans are wired to think in terms of purposeful social agents and their objectives, and to tell themselves stories. In every culture, there are myths that tell its members...

June 13, 2021
Activism, Culture Wars, Diversity, Diversity Debate, Media, Science / Tech, Tech, Top Stories

Silicon Valley’s ‘Mission Protocol’ Revolution Is Beginning to Attain Critical Mass

In December 2004, during Ukraine’s Orange Revolution, I spent a night in one of the many tents that had been pitched in Kiev’s central square. There were five of...

June 11, 2021
Asia, Europe, History, Identity, Migration, Top Stories

How the (Much Maligned) Mongol Horde Helped Create Russian Civilization

If the great nomadic regime born from the Mongol expansion of the 13th century were projected on today’s maps, it would stretch across a region occupied by Ukraine, Bulgaria,...

June 11, 2021
Foreign Policy, Middle East, Science / Tech, Security, Top Stories

Could an Invisible Military Laser Steal Your Privacy?

In early 2006, I sat in the Pashtun tribal areas on the Af/Pak border. When not rinsing grit out of my teeth from the thick fog in the air,...

June 10, 2021
Health, Science, Science / Tech, Top Stories

The Importance of Understanding the Nonspecific Effects of Vaccines

The world’s attention is presently focused on the mRNA vaccines, which may turn out to be the most revolutionary vaccines ever produced. However, very few doctors, and certainly not...

June 9, 2021
Activism, Crime, Culture Wars, Diversity, Identity, News, Politics, Top Stories

Are Activists Protecting Asians from Hate—or Protecting Their Narrative of White Supremacy from Criticism?

Asia Society, the global NGO dedicated to “forging closer ties between Asia and the West through arts, education, policy and business,” recently shared a video in which activist Manjusha...

June 8, 2021

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Leaving Portland

by Michael J. Totten

Portland, Oregon, has been the most politically violent city in the United States since Donald Trump was elected in 2016. Just a few days after the result, a peaceful protest against the incoming president turned into a riot when anarchists broke off from the main group and rampaged through the Pearl District, a renovated SoHo-like neighborhood adjacent to downtown packed with art galleries, loft...

March 14, 2021
Activism, Crime, Culture Wars, Long Read, Memoir, Recommended, Top Stories

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