Be Rational
When we apply reason to reason itself, we find that it is not just an inarticulate gut impulse, a mysterious oracle that whispers truths into our ear.
Steven Pinker
· 12 min read
Podcast #167: Vivek Ramaswamy on the 'Woke Smoke' Blown by Corporate America
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with 36-year-old biotech entrepreneur and author Vivek Ramaswamy about how corporate elites burnish their progressive bona fides (and distract their critics) with anti-racism slogans and hashtags—instead of taking concrete steps to address real inequalities within their organizations.
Quillette, Vivek Ramaswamy
· 1 min read
Sandinista! The US Left and Nicaragua
Recent events in Nicaragua have caused stirrings of unease among many of Ortega's previously loyal US supporters, and in some cases, strident criticism.
Ronald Radosh
· 18 min read
My Life as a Ghostwriter
If you pick the right projects, on the other hand, ghostwriting can be highly lucrative, especially as compared to the low payouts available to mid-list authors publishing non-fiction books under their own name.
Jonathan Kay
· 11 min read
Shame and Silence: The LWS Twin Studies Revisited
Identical twins, especially, are favorites when it comes to exploring identity and duality in dramatic and literary works.
Nancy L. Segal
· 8 min read
Teaching Us How the World Wags On
Children get to know dogs in myriad ways that are not accessible to older people, who are rarely so willing to commune with their dog on more or less equal terms.
Herman Goodden
· 8 min read
Weekly Round Up
Quillette
· 3 min read
"These Are Very Bad Dudes" — David Buss on Sexual Conflict and the Dark Triad
So sexual conflict is pervasive, and the evolutionary perspective adds a lot of clarity to where and why men and women get into conflict and the particular manifestations it takes in the human case.
Claire Lehmann
· 22 min read
Bitter Lessons from Afghanistan
The decision to withdraw from Afghanistan returns those nations willing to fight evil to their couches, where they can sigh in safety.
John Lloyd
· 13 min read
The Ironies of Sex
Young people are still discovering their sexual selves and are often lost when exploring the sexual terrain of someone else’s body and mind.
Gregory Gorelik
· 8 min read
The Progressive Case for Renouncing Gender Extremism: Last of a Three-Part Series
Allan Stratton
· 18 min read
Can We Have Sex Back?
For a start, sex can be pretty delightful, and if you are a smart person (as many—though by no means all—academics are), you will likely find that sex with other smart people is much more satisfying than sex with the dumb.
Alice Dreger
· 6 min read
Chinese Culture and the Red Line of Morality
Even the Soviet Union had its Bulgakovs and its Pasternaks, of course, and there is no doubt that art sometimes flourishes in an atmosphere of oppression.
Aaron Sarin
· 7 min read
Rethinking Judith Jarvis Thomson’s Defense of Abortion
The abortion debate is primarily concerned with the bodily autonomy of the mother and/or of the fetus. The rights and duties of the father are seldom discussed.
Michael Robillard
· 7 min read
Podcast #166: Josh Szeps on the Myth of Australia’s COVID ‘Concentration Camps’
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay interviews ABC presenter and podcaster Josh Szeps about Australia’s unique experience in managing the COVID pandemic—and the urban legends the country’s quarantine system has spawned among right-wing pundits on the other side of the world.
Quillette, Jonathan Kay
· 1 min read