The Journal of Controversial Ideas Is Here Minerva says that the frequency with which the journal will release issues isn’t yet known—it will depend on the rate at which the editors receive quality submissions. Spencer Case 28 Apr 2021 · 11 min read
Remembering John Ball, the Writer Who Gave Us Virgil Tibbs Sidney Poitier, who retired from acting 20 years ago, turned in many unforgettable screen performances over a career that spanned the entire second half of the 20th century. But his best known is almost certainly his portrayal of police officer Virgil Tibbs, the protagonist of Norman Jewison’s 1967 film Kevin Mims 27 Apr 2021 · 20 min read
Interrogating Jane In fact, the single most common technique for insisting that Austen is anti-slavery is for the critic to draw an equivalence between slavery and her depiction of social class, or her portrayal of the status of women. Lona Manning 26 Apr 2021 · 12 min read
Grade Inflation Is Ruining Education Rampant grade inflation has made grades less useful while, ironically, making them the entire point of school. Shane Trotter 24 Apr 2021 · 8 min read
The White of the AI The essence of AI is not white oppression, racism, sexism, and colonialism, it is the automation of mathematics and logic. Sean Welsh 23 Apr 2021 · 9 min read
Podcast 146: Michael Shellenberger on Nuclear Power, Progressive Hypocrisy on Energy Policy, and His New book, ‘Apocalypse Never’ Quillette founder Claire Lehmann talks to author and activist Michael Shellenberger about how environmental alarmism and ideological blind spots often prevent us from having a rational discussion about the best way to address climate change while growing national economies. Quillette / Michael Shellenberger 23 Apr 2021 · 1 min read
The Ugly History of Rape Panics As sexual violence was reaching historic lows, the narrative was demanding the opposite. The definition of sexual violence began to be broadened, and so the numbers grew. Jerry Barnett 22 Apr 2021 · 11 min read
When Sons Become Daughters, Part IV: Parents of Transitioning Boys Speak Out on Their Own Suffering The recent spike in trans self-identification has made things even more difficult for these parents, because gender-related body dysmorphia often appears alongside other kinds of physically focused anxieties. Angus Fox 21 Apr 2021 · 17 min read
Stopped Cold: Remembering Russia's Catastrophic 1939 Campaign Against Finland Many Finnish soldiers felt pity for their opponents, prodded into battle by merciless commissars. Sean McMeekin 20 Apr 2021 · 13 min read
Europe, China, and the New Global Hierarchy Europe has benefited greatly from the fact that the dominant power for the past 75 years has been a liberal democracy—a flawed liberal democracy, no doubt, but a liberal democracy all the same. Aaron Sarin 19 Apr 2021 · 11 min read
Australian Indigenous Activists Call Out White Feminism's Deadly Blind Spot The very language we now use to discuss social justice and feminism is being subjected to American critical-race ideology and intersectional feminism. Edie Wyatt 19 Apr 2021 · 8 min read
Podcast 145: Sean McMeekin on ‘Stalin’s War: A New History of World War II’ Quillette’s Jonathan Kay speaks with Bard University history professor Sean McMeekin about his new book, which describes how the fears and ambitions of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin shaped the course of the Second World War. Quillette / Sean McMeekin 18 Apr 2021 · 1 min read
Rinaldo Walcott’s On Property—A Review Indeed, the title misleads: On Property focuses more on the historical threads linking the slave plantations to the abuses of modern policing than it does on its purported subject matter. Jonathan Salem-Wiseman 18 Apr 2021 · 8 min read
The Permanence of Segregation Indeed, given existing levels of residential segregation on all continents—urban, suburban, and rural—it is also not practically possible (and almost always politically impossible) to redraw the lines that determine attendance in ways that would produce more integration. Michael S. Merry 16 Apr 2021 · 16 min read
The Search to Explain Our Anxiety and Depression: Will ‘Long COVID’ Become the Next Gender Ideology? Long COVID is just the latest example of the sort of idea that will become popular among this generation—and it certainly won’t be the last. Jonathan Kay 15 Apr 2021 · 9 min read
