The Truth about Autogynephilia
Sexual tastes you do not share are inevitably hard to comprehend. But autogynephilia is especially so, since it is rare and even more rarely spoken of.
Helen Joyce
· 17 min read
Mrs. Dalloway: Secularism and Its Enchantments
Woolf’s depiction of these inner rhythms would be refined in the novels that followed—To the Lighthouse and The Waves—but Dalloway was the true birth of this form.
Jared Marcel Pollen
· 13 min read
The Victims’ Race
Victimhood may confer ancient and effective advantages, but researchers are nonetheless alarmed by the scale of digital self-harm in adolescents, and the recent recourse to false accusations more generally.
Tomasz Witkowski
· 10 min read
Quillette's Best on Critical Social Justice
According to this culturally relative view of the world, then, truth is arbitrary and exclusive, rather than evidentiary and shared. The consequence is divisiveness.
Quillette
· 4 min read
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.
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
· 9 min read
The Language of Sex
While we fuss over definitions and pontificate on freedoms, sex and lust and desire and passion and bodies coming together, remain largely undomesticated.
Marilyn Simon
· 10 min read
Children Are Lonelier Than Ever. Can Anything Be Done?
Loneliness was generally stable (with the bright spot being a significant drop in Asia) from 2000 to 2012 and then quickly reversed itself in all regions.
Camilo Ortiz and Stephanie De Leo
· 9 min read
Who Will Save Us From Racist AI?
The researchers analyzed multiple databases and the findings were striking—the ML models were able to predict self-reported race (classified as Asian, black, and white) with astonishing precision.
Zachary Robert Caverley
· 9 min read
Necessity Is the Mother of Invention, and Has Been for Over 3,500 Years
And that is an ancient cultural surprise worth celebrating. Far more than imaginary Gods, Ravens, and Spirits.
Lawrence M. Krauss
· 4 min read
Twilight of the Satyrs
I. On April 18th of this year, Blake Bailey, 58, the author of Philip Roth: The Biography, was abruptly dropped by his literary agency, the Story Company. His book had been published on April 6th, and climbed to the top of the bestseller lists. But then allegations emerged that while
Charlotte Allen
· 28 min read
Political Correctness: A Sociocultural Black Hole—A Review
In the 1980s, when political correctness was slowly brewing in parts of academia, Isaac Asimov claimed democracy was under attack.
Göran Adamson
· 7 min read
Watching America’s Crack-Up
America was born of the virgin Liberty, and like the son of God in which it still largely believes, will always rise from the dead.
Benjamin Kerstein
· 20 min read
Why It’s OK to Speak Your Mind
The following is an excerpt from Why It’s OK to Speak Your Mind, by Hrishikesh Joshi. Routledge, 196 pages. (March 2021) The division of cognitive labor Modern society is only possible because of the division of labor. Without division of labor, the most we could achieve is a very
Hrishikesh Joshi
· 23 min read
When You’re Diagnosed with Autism—by TikTok
It’s notable that no-one on TikTok is diagnosing themselves with schizophrenia or severe personality disorders such as antisocial and borderline.
Lucy Kross Wallace
· 9 min read