The role that journalists must play to uphold our democratic values is integral to democracy and social cohesion. Journalists hold governments and their agencies to account.
Listen onSpotify Enlightenment Now author Steven Pinker speaks with Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay about his newly published book, Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters
All teachers have a hope of how they will be perceived by the students sitting in their classrooms. Too many of us today want to be perceived as accommodating and nice, compassionate and endlessly empathetic.
Upcoming generations will not thank us for gifting them a world devoid of the concept of personal privacy.
After decades of experience, the sharpest naturalists in history may have been able to identify a few hundred species in the field.
Pride 4 The People and its allies were scathing, accusing board members of preferring to shut down the organization rather than include black and trans people.
A pandemic-driven shortage of parts and labor has combined with a congested transport system to create an inflationary spike, with shipping rates doubling on some routes.
Simping reflects the cold reality of our modern sexual marketplace where a growing number of lonely young men search desperately for a romantic partner.
Humans have evolved to empathize with the suffering of others, and to provide assistance so as to eliminate or compensate for that suffering.
Before you read this week's articles, I'd like to draw your attention to the distressing harassment that one of our contributors, Kathleen Stock, a professor of philosophy at the University of Sussex, has been subjected to on her campus. Kathleen Stock authored the book Material Girls:
Almost from its inception, the Beat Generation seemed to be doomed to failure. In and around Columbia University, a ragtag group of bohemians coalesced based upon an odd array of mutual interests. Two of them were homosexuals, one bisexual, and all were interested in drugs and subversive literature. William S.
People differ from one another in many different ways.
Vaccine technology has sped ahead, serving the critical function to break the link between infection and poor outcomes.
Claiming that biological terms are authoritative and unambiguous is either a misunderstanding of biology or a failure to appreciate the difficulties inherent in applying linguistic categories to natural phenomena.
The main ethical problem posed by Instagram is that young people are not mature enough to give informed consent to having their preferences harvested and fed back to them by a corporation that specialises in attention manipulation.