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Facts Don’t Care About Your Diversity Training Certificate—A Critique of Credentialism

The basic fact that famous experts are often wrong is not itself in dispute—but is worth reviewing.

Wilfred Reilly

4 Apr 2021 · 10 min read

Podcast 143: Daphne Merkin on the Baseless Abuse Claims Against Woody Allen—And Why The Media Refuses to Let Them Die

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks to Daphne Merkin about HBO’s highly torqued documentary, Allen v. Farrow, and the dubious claims it contains. Merkin, who wrote a widely discussed New York Magazine article about Woody Allen and Soon-Yi Previn in 2018, is a prominent literary critic, essayist, and novelist.

Quillette / Daphne Merkin

4 Apr 2021 · 1 min read

Beyond Order: 12 More Rules For Life—A Review

The rule “Do Not Hide Unwanted Things in the Fog” urges us not to ignore negative emotions such as anxiety, pain, and fear.

Hannah Gal

3 Apr 2021 · 11 min read

Persuasion and the Prestige Paradox: Are High Status People More Likely to Lie?

The first type, termed the “central” route, comes from careful and thoughtful consideration of the messages we hear.

Rob Henderson

3 Apr 2021 · 13 min read

When Sons Become Daughters: Parents of Transitioning Boys Speak Out on Their Own Suffering

Many of the young men in question have, in moments of candour, hinted that their motivations for transition are unrelated to actual gender dysphoria.

Angus Fox

2 Apr 2021 · 11 min read

Between Hartlepool and Hampstead—Paul Embery on the British Labour Party and the Working Class

There wasn’t a key single moment, but there were a series of events if you like, which occurred in the first decade of this century.

Carlo Massimo

1 Apr 2021 · 16 min read

Weaponizing Social Justice to Protect School Administrators and Discredit Whistle-blowers: A Canadian Case Study

Two hours to the west of Montreal, the University of Ottawa is now in the midst of its own racism-free anti-racism social panic.

Jonathan Kay

1 Apr 2021 · 18 min read

Taboo: Why Is Africa the Global COVID ‘Cold Spot’ and Why Are We Afraid to Talk About It?

Africa has not been affected on anything like the scale of most countries in Asia, Europe, and North and South America.

Jon Entine / Patrick Whittle

30 Mar 2021 · 21 min read

The Campaign to Thwart Paleogenetic Research Into North America's Indigenous Peoples

In the north, the Maritime Archaic gave way to Pre-Dorset Palaeoeskimos (as they are known in the literature) that had recently arrived from Siberia.

Bruce Bourque

29 Mar 2021 · 20 min read

Podcast 142: Nancy Rommelmann and Michael Totten on Portland's Descent Into Violence—And Why They Finally Decided to Flee

Quillette‘s Jonathan Kay talks to two ex-Portlanders—Nancy Rommelmann and Michael Totten—about how the COVID-19 pandemic and a year of violent protests turned their once beloved city into a fractured, downwardly mobile arena for America’s culture war. Sources discussed in this podcast include: * Leaving Portland, by Michael

Quillette / Nancy Rommelmann

28 Mar 2021 · 1 min read

'Allen v. Farrow': Intellectually Dishonest Propaganda Meets Emotional Blackmail

There is no doubt that part of the goal of Allen v. Farrow was to finish off both Allen’s career and his legacy by presenting a definitive guilty verdict in the court of public opinion.

Cathy Young

28 Mar 2021 · 26 min read

Thomas Sowell: Tragic Optimist

In his 2000 memoir A Personal Odyssey, Sowell recounts a parable that was read to him as a young boy and which he never forgot.

Samuel Kronen

27 Mar 2021 · 29 min read

Houses of Horrors

In some former British colonies, confronting the dispossession and murder of native peoples has prompted efforts at apology and restitution.

John Lloyd

27 Mar 2021 · 14 min read

Race and False Hate Crime Narratives

Press reports refer to activists condemning “anti-Asian racism” and fighting anti-Asian “hate.”

Heather Mac Donald

25 Mar 2021 · 12 min read

Culture, the Humanities, and the Collapse of the Grand Narratives

The socio-economic arguments are based on data indicating that the number of humanities graduates has declined rapidly since the financial crisis in 2008.

Sara Cederberg

25 Mar 2021 · 10 min read