Podcast 137: Sociologist Nathalie Heinich on French Academicsâ Opposition to Americaâs Race-Based Ideologies Jonathan Kay speaks to eminent French sociologist Nathalie Heinich, founder of a new organization that opposes the spread of Americaâs race-fixated academic movements into French campuses. While conservatives have traditionally complained about the excesses of âFrench theory,â Prof. Heinich argues, many harmful ideas are now crossing the Atlantic in Quillette / Jonathan Kay 22 Feb 2021 · 1 min read
Can Governments Stop Bitcoin? The reality is Bitcoin is a political project that threatens to fundamentally disrupt the Davos-led economic system, with everyone from Janet Yellen to Christine Lagarde expressing fear about its rise and demanding it be regulated. Alex Gladstein 21 Feb 2021 · 16 min read
Thinking Critically About Critical Thinking It is not hopeless. A recent analysis of research on college graduates suggested that attending college appreciably increased their critical thinking capacity. Greg Ashman 20 Feb 2021 · 6 min read
Environmentalism, Trumpism, and the Working Class As wide as the partisan gaps are concerning illegal immigration and free trade, none can compare to those on environmental protection and global warming. William Murray 20 Feb 2021 · 12 min read
Growing Up Without a Father-Figure Can Make Boys Less Violent While there is likely a modest link between violent crime and single parenting, Faust and Manning are wrong about the benefits of a father-figure. Robert Cherry 19 Feb 2021 · 7 min read
Towards Practical Empowerment In A Critique of Anti-Racism, I offer empowerment theory as a framework for anti-racist work, whether it is activism or pedagogy. Erec Smith 19 Feb 2021 · 10 min read
Accommodating Trans Athletes Without Rejecting the Reality of Human Biology As recent studies have shown, these advantages generally donât go away simply because an athlete has changed their pronouns and hormone chemistry. At the highest levels, the difference between male and female world records typically hovers around 10 percent. Quillette 17 Feb 2021 · 11 min read
The Narrative and Its Discontents This mindset is nigh-incomprehensible to people of The Narrative who are used to being guided by a single source of truth enforced by social consensus. Jacob Falkovich 16 Feb 2021 · 9 min read
Do Lockdowns Work? Only If You Lock the Borders Down, Too The public debate around COVID-19 has too often centred on the question of whether a certain set of measures, usually classified as lockdowns, are or are not effective. Noah Carl 15 Feb 2021 · 8 min read
PODCAST 136: Social Media Network Creator Brian Amerige: If You Could Create a New Network from Scratch, What Would It Look Like? Quilletteâs Jonathan Kay talks to Brian Amerigeâa former team leader at Facebook, and now the CEO of Thoughtfulâabout the content-moderation lessons heâs learned from established social-media giants, and how we can create something better. Quillette / Jonathan Kay / Brian Amerige 15 Feb 2021 · 1 min read
Scott Alexander, Philosopher King of the Weird People Rationalists, in short, are a group of people who picked up the liberal, academic, philosophical traditions of Western civilization when institutions like the New York Times decided to abandon them. Kenneth R. Pike 14 Feb 2021 · 8 min read
COVID-19 and the Ongoing Global Workplace Revolution The pandemic has done much to undermine the basis for urban supremacy. Joel Kotkin and HĂźgo KrĂźger 14 Feb 2021 · 14 min read
Struggling with Pixarâs 'Soul' If heaven needs to be segregated, what hope does Earth have? Colm O'Shea 12 Feb 2021 · 12 min read
Oscar Wildeâs Utopia The great conflict within the Left during the 19th century was between anarchist and statist visions for socialism (this was the bone of contention between Bakunin and Marx, and for many revolutionaries long after). Jared Marcel Pollen 12 Feb 2021 · 11 min read
Making the Profane Sacred It is an attack on the free reporting of information if context no longer matters, and it is an attack on education if a respectful discussion about language itself risks dismissal. Lawrence M. Krauss 11 Feb 2021 · 6 min read
