The Case Against the Case Against AI
AI only knows what is in the data. The unfortunate use of the term “learning” is a simple, but potent, source of confusion and apprehension.
Peter L. Levin
· 9 min read
Weekly Roundup
Dear Quilletters, Last week the world lost one of the true greats of biology—E.O. Wilson, who died at age 92. While known to the public primarily for his work on ants and later as a leading popularizer of conservation biology, Wilson was also perhaps the first major target
Colin Wright
· 6 min read
The Pretext of Diversity in American Universities
A surfeit of reparations advocates (including Ta-Nehisi Coates) are openly disdainful of the diversity rationale—just not so disdainful as to actually oppose diversity initiatives.
Kenneth R. Pike
· 12 min read
A Trans Pioneer Explains Her Resignation from the US Professional Association for Transgender Health
In the past, we were told that people who were transgender had a deep-seated psychiatric disorder, which no longer is the prevailing view, but for many years it was, which was why so many trans people feel traumatized, especially adult trans people, who were basically told they were crazy.
Lisa Selin Davis
· 12 min read
The Need for a Culture of Achievement
Rand’s style often caused her to be misunderstood and dismissed as some kind of Nietzschean.
Robert Tracinski
· 12 min read
Quillette Podcast #177: New York Times Columnist Ross Douthat on His Hellish Experience with Lyme Disease
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with New York Times opinion columnist Ross Douthat about how his new book—which explores both his own fight against chronic Lyme disease, and the controversy surrounding the condition within the medical community.
Quillette, Jonathan Kay
· 1 min read
The Free-ish World
A review of World in Danger: Germany and Europe in an Uncertain Time by Wolfgang Ischinger, Brookings, 280 pages (November, 2020) Every winter in Bavaria, the great and the good from Europe and the United States gather to take stock of the threats facing the world. The Munich Security Conference
Brian Stewart
· 8 min read
Burgis on Hitchens—Getting Radicalism Wrong
I anticipated a more thoughtful exploration of Christopher Hitchens’s political history and relevance than what Ben Burgis provided.
Matt Johnson
· 15 min read
My APA Resignation
These are terrifying words. They’re also at best debatable, arguably simply untrue.
Christopher J. Ferguson
· 10 min read
A Conversation with E.O. Wilson (1929–2021)
In fact, at that meeting, InCAR—the International Committee Against Racism—held up signs condemning me and sociobiology and racism in general.
Alice Dreger
· 29 min read
Remembering Berlin’s Post-Communist Art Colony—Before It Became ‘Kitsch for the Rich’
The Berlin winter sky is orange one evening as we turn off Oranienburger Strasse into Tacheles courtyard, where a Trabant is planted nose-first in the sand, a laconic memorial to a lifestyle that no longer exists.
Ulrich Gutmair
· 12 min read
Quillette’s Top 10 of 2021
Welcome to Quillette's most popular articles of the year measured by number of pageviews from January 1 - December 26, 2021. We hope you enjoy them. Number 1: Unspeakable Truths about Racial Inequality in America | Glenn Loury “Blacks are being treated like infants whom one dares not to
Quillette
· 4 min read
Merry Christmas + the Weekly Roundup
As another pandemic year draws to a close, it's time for my annual Christmas message. It has been difficult to write this year as many of us are impacted by Covid in one way or another, or are suffering with the exhaustion of prolonged uncertainty. In testing times
Claire Lehmann
· 6 min read
Taiwan, Ukraine, and Huntington’s Clash of Civilisations Revisited
Putin believes that the current crisis puts principled opposition to authoritarian empire-building at odds with the imperatives of faith and history, as well as the pragmatic imperative of keeping Germans supplied with energy.
John Lloyd
· 9 min read
Podcast #176: Jonathan Kay on Middle Age, Watch Collecting, Sports Cars, Board Games, and Disc Golf
Quillette’s Jonathan Kay ends 2021 by speaking to Bob Tarantino about the things he does when he isn’t hosting the Quillette podcast. For the original (and longer) version of this interview, please visit Bob Got a Microphone.
Quillette, Jonathan Kay
· 1 min read