Towards Shared Identities
Fighting identities is the true meaning of the culture wars.
Seth Chalmer
· 8 min read
It's Still Early Days. But Pfizer's Stunning Vaccine Results Could Be a Real Game-Changer
It is a sign that the end of the global pandemic may—may—soon be in sight.
Jeffrey S. Flier
· 8 min read
On Remembrance Day, Celebrating Two Canadian Prisoners Who Took Down an Entire Shipyard
The need for secrecy was therefore paramount. But as he began to plot his sabotage, Clark realized he’d need at least one trusted accomplice.
George MacDonell
· 10 min read
Secular Modernity under Theocratic Assault
Brian Stewart
· 7 min read
America Has Serious Problems. It’s Time to Stop Blaming Them on ‘Trumpism’
It is always tempting to portray one’s political opponents as consumed by some inveterate flaw or social contaminant that marks them as fallen creatures.
Quillette
· 10 min read
Gender Activists Are Trying to Cancel My Book. Why is Silicon Valley Helping Them?
This is what censorship looks like in 21st-century America.
Abigail Shrier
· 9 min read
A Reasoned Judgment and a Reputation in Ruins
Depp has found that using the law to defend your reputation is a very expensive way of shattering it.
Matthew Scott
· 10 min read
Podcast #121: The Inconvenient Truth About Donald Trump’s Non-White Supporters
A conversation with Jamil Jivani.
Quillette
· 1 min read
Without and Within, a Fin-de-Siècle Moment
If Donald Trump had won, the Left would have burned down the cities. If Joe Biden had won decisively and flipped the Senate, conservatives would have loaded the guns into their pickup trucks and laid siege.
Stephen Elliott
· 8 min read
R.M. Vaughan (1965–2020): A Beautiful Mind Silently Extinguished in a Time of Fear
We were Oscar Wilde’s great-grand-nephews, dandy aesthetes obsessed as much with the curl of our hair as with art or politics.
Sky Gilbert
· 8 min read
For Five Months, BLM Protestors Trashed America's Cities. After the Election, Things May Only Get Worse
Common themes in the emerging constellation of radical groups include apocalyptic beliefs, a “utopian” political agenda, martyr narratives, and a cell-based organizational structure.
Mike Gonzalez
· 9 min read
The Search for a Politics of Community
What’s now being sought is a system in which power is exercised by representatives of those who constitute a majority.
John Lloyd
· 13 min read
PODCAST 120: Jodi Shaw on a Climate of Fear at Smith College, Following Unproven Racism Accusations
A whistleblower at an elite Massachusetts women’s college talks to Jonathan Kay about how a single 2018 incident on campus unleashed public-shaming measures that targeted the school’s lowest paid workers—all in the name of social justice
Quillette
· 1 min read
The Failing Business Model of American Universities
Troubling data on annual borrowing from the College Board show the types of loans taken.
Eric Jansen
· 9 min read
Sex Differences in Occupational Attainment are Here to Stay
The sex difference here is found in hunter-gatherer, pastoral, and agricultural societies, as well as in early empires, developing nations, and the modern world.
David C. Geary
· 16 min read