Cancel Culture Has a Lot to Answer For
Cancel culture prescribes affirmative action as the means to install diversity in all activities that it values.
Peter H. Schuck
· 6 min read
Studying the True Face of Gender Ideology
While many of us are lazy and gullible in our ideological commitments, pledging allegiance to faddish notions so that we may be seen as enlightened, such vanities tend to fall away once we see evidence that proves we’ve been duped.
Jonathan Kay
· 16 min read
Autonomous Vehicles: Hype or Reality?
AVs are essentially robots with the same requirements as human-driven vehicles—driving and parking skills, the ability to communicate with other cars and the infrastructure, navigation skills, and access to a source of energy.
Randall Mayes
· 14 min read
Weekly Roundup
Claire Lehmann
· 5 min read
A Better Way to Lead Christians Away from Intimate Partner Violence
Of those surveyed for the IPV report, 17 percent of self-described Anglicans said they’d experienced IPV in the last 12 months, as compared to 18 percent for the general population.
Andrew Judd
· 8 min read
Gulags Are for Artists Like Me
The role that journalists must play to uphold our democratic values is integral to democracy and social cohesion. Journalists hold governments and their agencies to account.
Peter Mousaferiadis
· 6 min read
Podcast #169: Harvard Professor Steven Pinker on Rational Thinking, the Monty Hall Problem, and the Case for Objective Truth
Enlightenment Now author Steven Pinker speaks with Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay about his newly published book, Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters
Quillette, Steven Pinker
· 1 min read
My Late Father Was a Great Teacher. He Wouldn’t Last a Week in the Modern Classroom.
All teachers have a hope of how they will be perceived by the students sitting in their classrooms. Too many of us today want to be perceived as accommodating and nice, compassionate and endlessly empathetic.
Jeremy S. Adams
· 7 min read
The Exhibitionist Economy
Upcoming generations will not thank us for gifting them a world devoid of the concept of personal privacy.
Ari David Blaff
· 7 min read
Technology and the Golden Age of Taxonomy
After decades of experience, the sharpest naturalists in history may have been able to identify a few hundred species in the field.
Malcolm Cochran
· 6 min read
The Implosion of Boston’s Pride Parade Is a Sign of Things to Come
Pride 4 The People and its allies were scathing, accusing board members of preferring to shut down the organization rather than include black and trans people.
Maxwell Meyer
· 12 min read
Confronting the Supply Chain Crisis
A pandemic-driven shortage of parts and labor has combined with a congested transport system to create an inflationary spike, with shipping rates doubling on some routes.
Joel Kotkin
· 11 min read
Simping and the Sexual Marketplace
Simping reflects the cold reality of our modern sexual marketplace where a growing number of lonely young men search desperately for a romantic partner.
Vincent Harinam
· 12 min read
Quillette's Best on Human Nature
Humans have evolved to empathize with the suffering of others, and to provide assistance so as to eliminate or compensate for that suffering.
Quillette
· 4 min read
Weekly Roundup and the Harassment of Professor Kathleen Stock
Before you read this week's articles, I'd like to draw your attention to the distressing harassment that one of our contributors, Kathleen Stock, a professor of philosophy at the University of Sussex, has been subjected to on her campus. Kathleen Stock authored the book Material Girls:
Claire Lehmann
· 6 min read