Colin Wright is the Managing Editor of Quillette. He received his PhD in evolutionary biology from UC Santa Barbara in 2018, and founded Reality’s Last Stand, a publication and newsletter exploring the debate around sex and gender. Colin has bylines in The Wall Street Journal, Quillette, and The Times.
Teenagers are being told that puberty is a time for them to make decisions about sex and gender, this at a time when they have none of the life experience that would be necessary to make such existential choices.
The sadly deflating truth of the matter is that it can take a good few years before children begin to apprehend what fathers are good for.
Quillette‘s Toby Young talks to free speech advocate and Brookings Institution Fellow Jonathan Rauch about his new book The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defence of Truth. It’s a follow-up to his celebrated defence of free speech, Kindly Inquisitors.
The authors all but ignore the science to focus on what they believe is more important—the ideological framing of the issue in socio-cultural discourse.
The lack of conservative leadership on this issue is perhaps most keenly felt on the economic side of things, since the cannabis industry creates opportunities for small businesses and domestic manufacturing.
Anyone who cares about ensuring that the lab-leak hypothesis is taken seriously should probably be thanking me, rather than vilifying me.
Quillette’s Jonathan Kay talks to UFO expert Michael Shermer about why we keep searching the skies for signs of alien visitors (and why we always come away disappointed). Transcript: Jonathan Kay: Welcome to the Quillette podcast. I’m Jonathan Kay, speaking to you from Toronto, Ontario, Canada, planet earth.
The most expansive interpretations of NAGPRA’s provisions now serve to place Indigenous oral traditions, which typically include religious stories, on equal footing with traditional forms of scientific evidence such as DNA analysis.
The collective wisdom of the tax-paying citizenry—literally the sense of the commons—is very often correct.
Without faith or nation, there is no greater whole beyond the individual.
They came to build the future and make money in the process.
The Jochid khans considered the Russian principalities part of their dominion.
Face recognition gives law enforcement this unique authority, this unique power, that does pose risks to our constitutional rights, and this needs to be very closely scrutinized now.
A new strategy is required that balances authority with humility.