Not All Identities Are Created Equal
The revival of racial identity to tackle social injustice reawakens an ancient beast.
Razib Khan
· 11 min read
Who Speaks for Black Lives Matter? The Answer Can Be Complicated
As one might imagine, it generally is opposed by many Black Lives Matter supporters, as they disagree with any implied parallel between racist treatment of blacks and the occupational hazards of police work.
Steven Volynets
· 13 min read
Slack Wars: Corporate America’s Woke Insurgency
Labor leaders no longer even pretend they can staunch the layoffs, and so their focus increasingly has turned to questions of editorial direction and ideology, over which they still believe they can exert leverage through the back door of social media.
Quillette
· 10 min read
PODCAST 116: Asra Nomani on the Damage Inflicted on Asian-American Students by Critical Race Theory
Jonathan Kay talks to writer Asra Nomani about the campaign to end race-neutral admissions testing at Thomas Jefferson High School in Virginia, America’s best public high school—and the disturbing attacks on Asian academic “culture” that have come with it
Quillette, Asra Q. Nomani
· 1 min read
The Moral Panic over 'Sexualisation'
I regularly found myself on national TV and radio, opposing the idea that the state should act to stop teenagers accessing sexual material.
Jerry Barnett
· 12 min read
My Brief Spell as an Activist
I was on fire, and at the same time, I was fragile.
Lucy Kross Wallace
· 14 min read
The Lawrence Mead Affair
If someone puts forward a controversial theory, others should have the chance to criticise it.
Noah Carl
· 6 min read
Revisiting the Simon-Ehrlich Wager 40 Years On
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (war, famine, pestilence, and death) have not completely disappeared—that would be a miracle, not progress. But the world is incomparably richer than it was just two centuries ago.
Marian L. Tupy and Gale L. Pooley
· 8 min read
The End of the Islamic Republic of Iran?
The regime is a victim of its own fanaticism, corruption, and incompetence.
Shay Khatiri
· 7 min read
Is China the Governance of the Future?
Jacques is one of the most enthusiastic boosters of China in the West, and his book aims to show that an increasingly dynamic China will soon lay a claim to global hegemony.
John Lloyd
· 15 min read
PODCAST 115: Stuart Buck on How COVID-19 Has Exposed the Shortfalls of Scientific Peer Review
Jonathan Kay talks to scientific transparency advocate Stuart Buck about how the rapid pace of COVID-19 science has exposed longstanding problems with the methods we use to validate scientific research
Quillette
· 1 min read
How We Lost Our Way on Human Rights
Surely we should seek to build on the past where possible, improve upon it, and learn from its successes as much as its failures—to create a healthy and honest partnership between past and present as a foundation for our future.
John Young
· 9 min read
For Some Adjunct Professors, It's Speak Your Mind versus Keep Your Job
Ilana Redstone and John Villasenor
· 8 min read
George Orwell, Henry Miller, and the 'Dirty-Handkerchief Side of Life'
Like Miller, Orwell didn’t just focus on the “dirty-handkerchief side of life”—he repeatedly confessed to the dirty-handkerchief side of his own personality.
Matt Johnson
· 15 min read
The Prescience of Shelby Steele
A great writer shows us how to think rather than telling us what to think.
Samuel Kronen
· 18 min read