To Expower the People
Expowering is a transitional measure since you cannot fire your way to equity.
Theodore Gioia
· 12 min read
Tennessee Williams and Woody Allen: Kindred Spirits to Illuminate our Tragicomic Existence
Allen and Williams are united by a sensibility that can be described as tragicomic, even if each inflects it differently.
Paul Hawkins
· 8 min read
The Death of Political Cartooning—And Why It Matters
Many nominally democratic political regimes practice de facto censorship in regard to material criticizing their populist rulers.
Jack Reilly
· 12 min read
PODCAST 132: Philippe Lemoine on the Case for Lockdown Skepticism
Jonathan Kay speaks to Philippe Lemoine about problematic assumptions embedded in the models used to support COVID lockdown policy. Yes, separating people helps reduce virus transmission and saves lives. But forced isolation also can generate serious (and often life-threatening) risks. Moreover, how much of the beneficial effects attributed to lockdowns
Quillette, Philippe Lemoine
· 1 min read
A Misremembered Day of Infamy
Brian Stewart
· 10 min read
Return of the Strong Gods: Understanding the New Right
A great many Americans held their noses to vote for Trump, whom they saw as the lesser evil.
Jordan Alexander Hill
· 20 min read
PODCAST 131: Professor Tania Reynolds on the Controversy Over Female Mentorship in Academia
University of New Mexico social psychologist Tania Reynolds speaks with Jonathan Kay about Nature Communications‘ questionable decision to retract a controversial article, the intrusion of ideology into scholarship about academic mentorship, and the principles of evolutionary biology that may affect female professional relationships. Prof. Reynolds originally wrote about this issue
Quillette, Tania Reynolds
· 1 min read
The Sexual Politics of Vasectomies
Vasectomies were illegal in France up until 2001. A Napoleonic code which forbade self mutilation was applied to vasectomies used for contraception.
Tanveer Ahmed
· 6 min read
An Optimistic Outlook on 2021
The events of 2020 have caused precisely these sorts of setbacks in global collective human progress.
Tony Morley
· 7 min read
National Borders are Not Going Away
The only examples of ready mergers in humans bring to mind the captive chimps or fugitive monkeys.
Mark W. Moffett
· 6 min read
The Future Is Already Here
One can still sell people smartwatches, and create “new needs” for people who have already established lives of comfort.
Joshua Schwartz
· 10 min read
Higher Education Risks No Longer Being Worth It – Here’s How to Change Course
The fact that higher education is suffering from the pandemic is not surprising—every sector has been affected one way or another.
Christos A. Makridis
· 6 min read
"I Was Never More Hated Than When I Tried to Be Honest"
Allergic to narrow-mindedness, poor taste, and moral arrogance, Ellison detested any kind of racial essentialism, separatism, and determinism.
Samuel Kronen
· 26 min read
A Student Mob Took Over Bryn Mawr. The College Said Thank You
Anyone who sought to attend class, go to the dining hall, or even turn in schoolwork was denounced as a “scab,” and often faced acts of bullying.
Minnie Doe
· 10 min read
PODCAST 130: Toby Young on the Free Speech Union, and His Campaign Against Cancel Culture
Jonathan Kay talks to colleague Toby Young about the fine line between journalism and activism, the politics of censorship, and his start-up year at the Free Speech Union
Quillette, Toby Young
· 1 min read