Weekly Roundup
Zoe Booth
· 4 min read
Curtis Yarvin: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
At the center of neoreactionary thinking is a cluster of unworkable ideas.
Max Borders
· 15 min read
In Southeast Asia, the Bad Guys are Staging a Comeback
Across Southeast Asia, former autocrats are staging their comebacks, exploiting ethnic and religious divisions, as well as fragile institutions. In Myanmar, a decade of cautious democratisation was violently upended by a military coup last year, while, in more recent times, once-disgraced kleptocratic forces in the Philippines and Malaysia have managed
Imran Said
· 8 min read
Free Speech and Due Process at Princeton: The Case of Joshua Katz
The treatment of a dissident professor raises serious questions about the university’s actions
Robert P. George
· 10 min read
Reconsidering the City
If they are to survive and thrive, cities need to become more people-friendly.
Joel Kotkin
· 10 min read
An Apology of the Body
Among the earliest meditations on the relationship between the body and soul are the dialogues of Socrates. Drawing from three different works—Plato’s Apology, Phaedo, and Xenophon’s Memorabilia—Socrates argues for the broad moral appeal of improving one’s body, the significance of which far exceeds the domain
Joe Lombardo
· 9 min read
When Mental Health Education Makes Us Sick
There must be more in our mental health toolkit than the language and mechanisms for self-diagnosis.
Clare Rowe
· 8 min read
Quillette Podcast #190: ‘Sex Realism’ Versus ‘Sex Denialism’: Is the Tide Finally Turning Against Gender Ideology?
Economist editor Helen Joyce, author of Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality, explains to Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay why biology must trump politics when it comes to defining who is a woman and who is a man.
Quillette
· 1 min read
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Zoe Booth
· 4 min read
Gender Ideologues Have Co-opted the Campaign Against Conversion Therapy
I spent years campaigning for a law that would protect gay youth from the ‘corrective’ abuse that I’d once endured. Then the trans-rights lobby got involved.
Peter Gajdics
· 11 min read
The Case Against Hate-Speech Laws: a Canadian Perspective
It is not science fiction to imagine that Section 319 and other as-yet-undrafted Canadian “anti-hate” laws will metastasize.
Jonathan Kay
· 6 min read
Zelensky’s Terrible Dilemma—and Ours
Capitulation or Bloody Resistance?
John Lloyd
· 8 min read
Diversity and Its Discontents
The public conversation about demographic change is hypocritical and destructive.
Bo Winegard
· 12 min read
What Are College Students Paying For?
After paring back the useless majors, ideologies, and gimmicks, the true purpose of college becomes clear.
Robert C. Thornett
· 15 min read
Has Olivia Manning’s ‘Fortunes of War’ Finally Found Its Moment?
The Ukrainian war has made Manning’s writing more relevant now than at any time since it was written.
Robin Ashenden
· 11 min read