Huxley, Burroughs, and the Church of Scientology
Like it or not, hidden within those influential texts are the bizarre jargon and lunatic assertions of a mendacious madman.
David S. Wills
· 13 min read
Blessed Are the Sense-Makers
Years from now, if anyone looks at a line graph (in the OED or Google dictionary) tracking the frequency with which a word is mentioned in print, they may notice the current affinity for the word “narrative.” An already overworked word (by virtue of its abstractness), it is now almost
Jared Marcel Pollen
· 11 min read
Standing up to the Social-Justice Mobs Within the Jewish Community
The white Jewish leaders who attended were told in advance that they were expected to come and listen—to be seen and not heard.
David Bernstein
· 12 min read
On the Dangers of Big COVID
One need not posit some secret cabal of illuminati lizard people or the creation of a clandestine 5G-COVID bioweapon to make sense of the rise and potential dangers of Big COVID.
Michael Robillard
· 14 min read
The Prophet of Dystopia at Rest: Margaret Atwood in Cuba
Canada has never supported the US embargo, and the countries’ good relations are for many Canadians a symbol of our independence.
Yvon Grenier
· 13 min read
In Defence of Absolute Truth
By rejecting any universally applicable standards of reason, it destroys the possibility of true conversation, of learning from and compromising with each other.
Alan S. Rome
· 18 min read
Australia's COVID Catch-22
Australia has every advantage under the sun: plentiful economic resources, a highly skilled workforce, and traditionally competent governments.
Matthew Lesh
· 8 min read
On Victimhood and Culture—A Reply to Aaron Hanna
The idea that whites were in the house while blacks were sweating in the fields despising them is comfortable to us today as we look upon the context as a whole and justly revile it.
John McWhorter
· 5 min read
In Praise of the Novelization—Pop Fiction's Least Reputable Genre
This month brings us the release of Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. No, not the film. That came out in 2019. But now HarperCollins is publishing a novelization, written by Tarantino himself, and based on the earlier film. This particular type of fiction—the bastard offspring
Kevin Mims
· 20 min read
Mate Selection for Modernity
Hypergamy is an evolved sexual strategy where individuals mate with and/or marry those most capable of providing long term security. It is the act of marrying up.
Vincent Harinam
· 17 min read
Understanding the Return of Socialism
Gen Z’s simultaneous distrust of government and gravitation towards social democracy is therefore not paradoxical, it is causal—the embrace of socialist-lite policies is a consequence of distrust of the prevailing liberal establishment.
Andrew Sansone
· 8 min read
Podcast #155: Heather Mac Donald on The Juilliard School's Strange Anti-Racist Meltdown
Quillette‘s Jonathan Kay speaks to City Journal writer Heather Mac Donald about how a single drama workshop caused Juilliard students to feel “traumatized,” and sparked an activist campaign aimed at undermining the elite school’s famously rigorous standards. Transcript: Jonathan Kay: Last month, writer Heather Mac Donald wrote for
Quillette, Heather Mac Donald
· 16 min read
The Bias Narrative versus the Development Narrative: Thinking About Persistent Racial Inequality in the United States
How can you expect population parity in an enterprise when there are some groups (Asians? Jews?) who are significantly overrepresented?
Glenn C. Loury
· 26 min read
The Route to Re-Enchantment
Moving from Cain and Abel to Christ’s Sermon on the Mount, with some Egyptian myths thrown in, he reconnects his young audience to the religious tradition that was always theirs to inherit, but from which they have been estranged by their modern education.
Harrison Pitt
· 9 min read
Why Fake News Flourishes: Emitting Mere Information Is Easy, But Creating Actual Knowledge Is Hard
Digital media, by contrast, had hardly any paying customers and lured advertisers with fleeting “impressions” and “engagement,” launching a no-holds-barred race to attract eyeballs.
Jonathan Rauch
· 9 min read