Bernard Rose's Forgotten Tolstoy Trilogy
This is the least operatic, and most touching, of the trilogy.
Robin Ashenden
· 8 min read
For 30 Years, I've Tried to Become a Woman. Here’s What I Learned Along the Way
The mirror doesn’t lie.
Corinna Cohn
· 12 min read
From India’s Himalayan Border to Our Local Cell Networks, It’s Time to Push Back Against China
The Indian border is only one of the many fronts on which China has been taking advantage of the worldwide economic downturn and political paralysis caused by COVID-19 to move aggressively—an ironic result given the source of the disease.
Cleo Paskal
· 8 min read
She Who Must Not Be Named
Using “female” instead of “woman” is clearly an attempt to avoid circularity. The problem is that “female” is not something you can identify as.
Helen Joyce
· 6 min read
Exploring 'Other Ways of Knowing': The New Religious Threat to Science Education
In its most elaborate form, EDI subjects science to the same treatment as has already been meted out to the Western literary canon: a relentless deconstruction whereby each axiom, value, and commitment is presented as infected by cultural imperialism.
Lenny Pier Ramos
· 12 min read
PODCAST 96: Helen Joyce on the Odd Redefinition of the Word "Woman"
Quillette contributor Helen Joyce talks to Jonathan Kay about the many ways in which gender ideologues have tied themselves in knots by trying to make the sisterhood more “inclusive”.
Quillette, Helen Joyce
· 1 min read
The Purity Paradox: How Tolerance and Intolerance Increase at the Same Time
By relentlessly expanding the concept of intolerance, prevalence-induced concept change ensures none of us can ever be good enough—if we pass one test of tolerance, we are sure to fail the next.
Peter Hughes
· 7 min read
How Britain’s Feminist Grass Roots Turned the Tide Against Gender Extremists
The novelists, librarians, and booksellers circling the wagons to shut women up have been insisting for years that they are motivated by nothing but love and tolerance.
Erin Perse
· 7 min read
White Saviors Need to Leave the Room
We need to have a discussion about racism—including a discussion about what that word means.
Rukhsana Sukhan
· 6 min read
Bad Vibrations: The Lies Universities Tell Their Students about Sex
Universities are free to promote sexual experimentation. But they should be honest that pushing norms and boundaries involves making mistakes.
Samantha Harris and Michael Thad Allen
· 14 min read
Reassessing the Guidance on Face Masks
Overly broad masking requirements are at best useless, and possibly harmful, since they can cause confusion and prompt at least some to rebel against masking if the practice is too onerous or impractical.
Dagfinn Reiersøl
· 7 min read
Seattle’s Summer of Love
Their goals are not reformist, they are revolutionary—they seek conflict not peace, and they have given scant thought about what they wish to build from the rubble of what they destroy.
Andrew Gleeson
· 8 min read
The Ever-Shrinking Transistor and the Invention of Google
The developments of the search engine and social media follow the usual path of innovation: incremental, gradual, serendipitous, and inexorable; few eureka moments or sudden breakthroughs.
Matt Ridley
· 14 min read
PODCAST 95: Joel Kotkin on the Pandemic and its Riotous Aftermath
Joel Kotkin, executive director of the Urban Reform Institute and author of The Coming of Neo-Feudalism, talks to Toby Young about the effect of the coronavirus pandemic on American cities and the rioting that broke out following the death of George Floyd. Joel recently wrote about this in a piece
Quillette, Joel Kotkin
· 1 min read
From South American Anthropology to Gender-Crit Cancel Culture: My Strange Feminist Journey
Anthropology taught me how to spot this instinct. Gender-critical feminists taught me how to stand up to it.
Kathleen Lowrey
· 13 min read