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The Status Game: Male, Grandiose, Humiliated

The logic of the status game dictates that humiliation must be uniquely catastrophic.

Will Storr

13 Sep 2021 · 15 min read

Podcast #165: Peter Boghossian on Why He Quit Portland State University

“Grievance Studies” hoaxster and philosophy professor Peter Boghossian tells Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay why he could no longer continue waging his struggle for intellectual pluralism without first shaking off the ideological constraints of campus life.

Quillette / James Lindsay and Peter Boghossian

13 Sep 2021 · 1 min read

Male Underachievement and the Gender Turf Wars

The educational advancement of women is strange when viewed alongside the floundering of men.

Ari David Blaff

12 Sep 2021 · 10 min read

Judith Butler: Enough Already!

Maybe Butler is an anti-identitarian when it comes to gender, but she sure defends her political identity most rigidly, indeed, in an obscurantist way.

Lama Abu-Odeh

12 Sep 2021 · 7 min read

Twenty Years Later, Engineering Experts Explain How The Twin Towers Collapsed

Some have questioned why the buildings did not “topple over” after being struck side-on by aircraft. But the answer becomes clear once you consider the details.

Quillette

11 Sep 2021 · 6 min read

Weekly Round Up

Quillette

10 Sep 2021 · 3 min read

The Good Death—Cancel Culture and the Logic of Torture

It is unsettling to consider how similar today’s public cancellations are to those public executions.

Christophe Van Eecke

9 Sep 2021 · 20 min read

'The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality'—A Review

The scientific idea that one’s genes affect one’s life outcomes isn’t novel.

Robert VerBruggen

8 Sep 2021 · 10 min read

Quillette's Best on Gender Identity

When Sons Become Daughters | Angus Fox * Part 1 * Part 2 * Part 3 * Part 4 * Part 5 * Part 6 “Parents have been complaining about their kids’ lifestyle choices and political convictions since the dawn of time, of course. But rarely have such choices involved committing oneself to the possibility of sterility

Quillette

8 Sep 2021 · 4 min read

Jessie Tu and the Fashionably Regressive Approach to Reading

The world of literature has expanded its horizons in recent decades, and the quality of writing from voices that may not have been published in decades past is something for which we should be grateful.

Neil Tully

8 Sep 2021 · 6 min read

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

7 Sep 2021 · 17 min read

Podcast #164: Comedian and Podcaster Jamie Kilstein on His COVID-Era Struggles

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Jamie Kilstein about the challenges he's faced since his excommunication from California's progressive entertainment circles.

Quillette / Jamie Kilstein

7 Sep 2021 · 1 min read

Why Culture Matters for Racial Disparities

It has become virtually axiomatic among progressives that any factor invoked to explain racial disparities which is not “structural” reflects a racist belief.

Jonathan Church

7 Sep 2021 · 19 min read

The War on Porn: Cancel Culture on Steroids

OnlyFans was given a huge boost by the pandemic. Many sex workers, faced with the sudden loss of their regular incomes, and stuck at home with time on their hands, flocked to the platform and built new streams of income.

Jerry Barnett

6 Sep 2021 · 12 min read

Weekly Round Up

Quillette

6 Sep 2021 · 4 min read