Grade Inflation Is Ruining Education
Rampant grade inflation has made grades less useful while, ironically, making them the entire point of school.
Brock Tillman
· 8 min read
The White of the AI
The essence of AI is not white oppression, racism, sexism, and colonialism, it is the automation of mathematics and logic.
Sean Welsh
· 9 min read
Podcast 146: Michael Shellenberger on Nuclear Power, Progressive Hypocrisy on Energy Policy, and His New book, ‘Apocalypse Never’
Quillette founder Claire Lehmann talks to author and activist Michael Shellenberger about how environmental alarmism and ideological blind spots often prevent us from having a rational discussion about the best way to address climate change while growing national economies.
Quillette, Michael Shellenberger
· 1 min read
The Ugly History of Rape Panics
As sexual violence was reaching historic lows, the narrative was demanding the opposite. The definition of sexual violence began to be broadened, and so the numbers grew.
Jerry Barnett
· 11 min read
When Sons Become Daughters, Part IV: Parents of Transitioning Boys Speak Out on Their Own Suffering
The recent spike in trans self-identification has made things even more difficult for these parents, because gender-related body dysmorphia often appears alongside other kinds of physically focused anxieties.
Angus Fox
· 17 min read
Stopped Cold: Remembering Russia's Catastrophic 1939 Campaign Against Finland
Many Finnish soldiers felt pity for their opponents, prodded into battle by merciless commissars.
Sean McMeekin
· 13 min read
Europe, China, and the New Global Hierarchy
Europe has benefited greatly from the fact that the dominant power for the past 75 years has been a liberal democracy—a flawed liberal democracy, no doubt, but a liberal democracy all the same.
Aaron Sarin
· 11 min read
Australian Indigenous Activists Call Out White Feminism's Deadly Blind Spot
The very language we now use to discuss social justice and feminism is being subjected to American critical-race ideology and intersectional feminism.
Edie Wyatt
· 8 min read
Podcast 145: Sean McMeekin on ‘Stalin’s War: A New History of World War II’
Quillette’s Jonathan Kay speaks with Bard University history professor Sean McMeekin about his new book, which describes how the fears and ambitions of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin shaped the course of the Second World War.
Quillette, Sean McMeekin
· 1 min read
Rinaldo Walcott’s On Property—A Review
Indeed, the title misleads: On Property focuses more on the historical threads linking the slave plantations to the abuses of modern policing than it does on its purported subject matter.
Jonathan Salem-Wiseman
· 8 min read
The Permanence of Segregation
Indeed, given existing levels of residential segregation on all continents—urban, suburban, and rural—it is also not practically possible (and almost always politically impossible) to redraw the lines that determine attendance in ways that would produce more integration.
Michael S. Merry
· 16 min read
The Search to Explain Our Anxiety and Depression: Will ‘Long COVID’ Become the Next Gender Ideology?
Long COVID is just the latest example of the sort of idea that will become popular among this generation—and it certainly won’t be the last.
Jonathan Kay
· 9 min read
Splendid Triviality: Philosophy, Art, and Sport in a Time of Crisis
They are necessary because without them none of the things that are noble can flourish.
Craig Clifford
· 9 min read
Can You Teach Children to be Anti-Racist?
Just as we can teach children multiplication facts, we assume we can teach them the attitudes to the world that we want them to have.
Greg Ashman
· 6 min read
Anti-Colonialism's Bad History
Crimes, no matter how heinous, cannot be passed onto the progeny like some modern variant of the original sin, condemning them to unending purgatory.
Marian L. Tupy
· 6 min read