Weekly Roundup and Martina Navratilova on Protecting Women's Sports Dear Quilletters, This week weâre pleased to bring you some unique pieces on fascinating topics. Along with law professor Doriane Coleman, 18-time Grand Slam winner Martina Navratilova offers us a critique of the International Olympic Committee's new rules for female competition in elite sport. Psychiatrist Sally Satel Claire Lehmann 1 Dec 2021 · 7 min read
What is Happening to My Profession? Some of the people who are refusing the life-saving COVID vaccine are alienated from mainstream institutions, which they view as house organs of the political Left rather than trustworthy arbiters of truth. Sally Satel 30 Nov 2021 · 10 min read
Peter Jacksonâs âGet BackââA Review The recording sessions appear harmonious, and although they only have five songs that they are confident enough to play on a cold rooftop in January, the gig above their Apple officeâthe laziest possible locationâgoes without a hitch. Christopher J. Snowdon 30 Nov 2021 · 12 min read
The Universal Structure of Storytelling Storytelling is thenâin every era and every cultureâa dramatization of the everlasting war between the princesses and the tigers. Jonathan Gottschall 29 Nov 2021 · 11 min read
On the Issue of Female Athletics, the IOC Has Shirked Its Duty to Lead Itâs wrong to make everyone wait for proof of the obvious when it comes to genetic males outperforming genetic females. Doriane Coleman and Martina Navratilova / Doriane Lambelet Coleman 29 Nov 2021 · 7 min read
Podcast #173: Batya Ungar-Sargon on the Growing Gulf Between Ordinary Americans and the Progressive Journalists Who Cover Them The culture war and the fight over liberal media bias. Quillette / Jonathan Kay 28 Nov 2021 · 21 min read
An Outback Conspiracy Misinformation results from the toxic combination of these two defining features, a lack of proximity to the Territory, and viewing the world through the lens of oppression. Matthew Blackwell 28 Nov 2021 · 13 min read
âWe Never Looked Backâ Education was divided along confessional lines into Catholic and Protestant school systems; for these purposes, Jews were designated Protestant. Ruth R. Wisse 27 Nov 2021 · 15 min read
History Lessons from the Toronto Mob Targeting a 19th-Century Gay Icon Allan Stratton 26 Nov 2021 · 15 min read
Scapegoating the Private School Boy The Private School Boy is an object of endless horror and fascination. Every few years, the media outrage cycle will crest towards another scandalâa leaked video of a sexist chant, allegations of sexual misconduct or orgiastic excessâand the discourse machine will dissect the sexual mores of elite teenagers Kasumi Borczyk 26 Nov 2021 · 7 min read
Noble Intentions, Counterproductive Results: The Tragic Inefficacy of a Deontological Policy Approach The blood shed for this right matters little to certain factions of the contemporary Left. Scott Newman 26 Nov 2021 · 9 min read
Zemmourâs Final Word The dangerâor opportunity, depending on your viewâis that two radical candidates like MĂ©lenchon and Zemmour win the first round. RJ Smith 25 Nov 2021 · 10 min read
The Sorry State of Political Apologies Political apologies are quickly forgotten. Michael McCullough 25 Nov 2021 · 5 min read
The Push for Equity in Education Hurts Vulnerable Children the Most Implementation of newly popular equity policies will hinder the learning of many students before those policies are weakened or reversed. Russell T. Warne 25 Nov 2021 · 13 min read
How D.B. Cooper and the Golden Age of Air Piracy Changed Aviation Fiction Frank Sinatra's âCome Fly With Meâ was the best-selling album in the United States for five weeks in 1958, but the irony of its popularity (or, perhaps, the source of its aspirational appeal) is that practically none of us could take up the offer to "glide, starry-eyed& Kevin Mims 24 Nov 2021 · 33 min read
