As US Schools Prioritize Diversity Over Merit, China Is Becoming the World’s STEM Leader In a 2018 report published by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), China ranked first in mathematical proficiency among 15-year-olds, while the United States was in 25th place. Percy Deift, Svetlana Jitomirskaya, and Sergiu Klainerman 19 Aug 2021 · 13 min read
Standing Up to the Gender Ideologues: a Quillette Editorial Once you sweep aside all the glitter showers, animated unicorns, and rainbow emojis, that is ultimately what gender supremacism is truly about. Quillette 24 Jun 2021 · 10 min read
The Search to Explain Our Anxiety and Depression: Will ‘Long COVID’ Become the Next Gender Ideology? Long COVID is just the latest example of the sort of idea that will become popular among this generation—and it certainly won’t be the last. Jonathan Kay 15 Apr 2021 · 9 min read
The Campaign of Lies Against Journalist Jesse Singal—And Why It Matters One of the odd-seeming aspects of progressive cancel culture is that many of the figures targeted by mobs aren’t especially conservative in their views. Jonathan Kay 18 Mar 2021 · 13 min read
Rescuing the Radicalized Discourse on Sex and Gender: Part Two of a Three-Part Series Our choice of words affects the way we think. That’s why we spend so much time fighting over which terms to use, whether it’s “undocumented immigrants” versus “illegal aliens,” “foetuses” versus “unborn babies,” or “militants” versus “terrorists.” In recent years, the question of word choice has figured prominently Allan Stratton 27 Jul 2021 · 17 min read
Diversity, Inclusion, and Academic Freedom: The Case of Gender Biology But it is sad to see established facts now suppressed along with undesirable beliefs and opinions. And to see our institutions of higher learning being led to this kind of neo-obscurantism in the name of enlightened social attitudes. Constantin Polychronakos 5 Apr 2021 · 10 min read
Rallying to Protect Admissions Standards at America’s Best Public High School The activists seeking to eliminate TJ’s meritocratic admissions systems attribute this latter result to systemic racism. Asra Q. Nomani and Glenn Miller 23 Sep 2020 · 10 min read
Denmark's Blaspheming Mother Immigration, Islamism and integration are salient issues even in the happiest place on earth. Andy Ngo 22 Apr 2019 · 9 min read
Enlightenment Wars: Some Reflections on 'Enlightenment Now,' One Year Later As Thomas Paine wrote, “To argue with someone who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.” Steven Pinker 14 Jan 2019 · 52 min read
Luxury Belief Systems and Economic Stagnation: The Recipe for Our Discontent The result of these two trendlines—the dominance of luxury-belief-driven status competition in a period of extended economic stagnation—was a brew of identity politics, political tribalism, and cultural warfare that would have been bad enough on its own. Andrew Potter 19 Aug 2021 · 9 min read
Accommodating Trans Athletes Without Rejecting the Reality of Human Biology As recent studies have shown, these advantages generally don’t go away simply because an athlete has changed their pronouns and hormone chemistry. At the highest levels, the difference between male and female world records typically hovers around 10 percent. Quillette 17 Feb 2021 · 11 min read
From South American Anthropology to Gender-Crit Cancel Culture: My Strange Feminist Journey Anthropology taught me how to spot this instinct. Gender-critical feminists taught me how to stand up to it. Kathleen Lowrey 12 Jun 2020 · 13 min read
Social Distancing and Stay-Home Orders Are Likely To Save Millions It was only after coronavirus proved so much more deadly in China and Italy that governments outside of Asia took dramatic actions including radical social distancing and stay-at-home orders. Michael Shellenberger 26 Mar 2020 · 3 min read
Faking Hope: AI Art as Propaganda There is a new contender for the most effective weapon in the propaganda wars: photorealistic, generative AI art. Julia Friedman 3 Nov 2023 · 8 min read
Charles Murray's 'Facing Reality'—A Review Facing Reality attempts to force into view data that many Americans would rather not acknowledge. Razib Khan 29 Jul 2021 · 12 min read