Tocqueville and Us
People joining a political movement don’t usually consider its logic or consequences; they react to an injustice or grievance.
Eric Clifford Graf
· 9 min read
Colin Wright
Colin Wright is the Managing Editor of Quillette. He received his PhD in evolutionary biology from UC Santa Barbara in 2018, and founded Reality’s Last Stand, a publication and newsletter exploring the debate around sex and gender. Colin has bylines in The Wall Street Journal, Quillette, and The Times.
Quillette
· 1 min read
When Sons Become Daughters: It’s Time to Admit That Reflexive ‘Affirmation’ Has Been a Mistake
Teenagers are being told that puberty is a time for them to make decisions about sex and gender, this at a time when they have none of the life experience that would be necessary to make such existential choices.
Angus Fox
· 16 min read
What Are Dads Good For?
The sadly deflating truth of the matter is that it can take a good few years before children begin to apprehend what fathers are good for.
Herman Goodden
· 8 min read
Podcast #154: Jonathan Rauch on Free Speech and Tackling Misinformation
Quillette‘s Toby Young talks to free speech advocate and Brookings Institution Fellow Jonathan Rauch about his new book The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defence of Truth. It’s a follow-up to his celebrated defence of free speech, Kindly Inquisitors.
Quillette, Jonathan Rauch
· 1 min read
The Sperm Count Culture War
The authors all but ignore the science to focus on what they believe is more important—the ideological framing of the issue in socio-cultural discourse.
Geoffrey C. Kabat
· 13 min read
The Conservative Case for Cannabis Legalization
The lack of conservative leadership on this issue is perhaps most keenly felt on the economic side of things, since the cannabis industry creates opportunities for small businesses and domestic manufacturing.
Matthew Roy Ackerman
· 9 min read
The 'Lab Leak' Inquiry at the State Department
Anyone who cares about ensuring that the lab-leak hypothesis is taken seriously should probably be thanking me, rather than vilifying me.
Christopher Ashley Ford
· 20 min read
Podcast #153: Michael Shermer on Our Enduring Fascination with UFOs
Quillette’s Jonathan Kay talks to UFO expert Michael Shermer about why we keep searching the skies for signs of alien visitors (and why we always come away disappointed). Transcript: Jonathan Kay: Welcome to the Quillette podcast. I’m Jonathan Kay, speaking to you from Toronto, Ontario, Canada, planet earth.
Quillette, Michael Shermer
· 24 min read
Why Is the Society for American Archaeology Promoting Indigenous Creationism?
The most expansive interpretations of NAGPRA’s provisions now serve to place Indigenous oral traditions, which typically include religious stories, on equal footing with traditional forms of scientific evidence such as DNA analysis.
Elizabeth Weiss and James W. Springer
· 16 min read
One ‘Maverick’ Documents Another—Jason Riley’s Biography of Thomas Sowell
The collective wisdom of the tax-paying citizenry—literally the sense of the commons—is very often correct.
Wilfred Reilly
· 10 min read
The Purposeless Society
Without faith or nation, there is no greater whole beyond the individual.
Sam Ashworth-Hayes
· 9 min read
Silicon Valley’s ‘Mission Protocol’ Revolution Is Beginning to Attain Critical Mass
They came to build the future and make money in the process.
Peter Savodnik
· 8 min read
How the (Much Maligned) Mongol Horde Helped Create Russian Civilization
The Jochid khans considered the Russian principalities part of their dominion.
Marie Favereau
· 9 min read
Could an Invisible Military Laser Steal Your Privacy?
Face recognition gives law enforcement this unique authority, this unique power, that does pose risks to our constitutional rights, and this needs to be very closely scrutinized now.
Art Keller
· 20 min read