Robin DiAngelo’s Misreading of Michel Foucault
It should not be controversial to say that knowledge can be exploited by dominant vested interests.
Jonathan Church
· 5 min read
A Brief History of China's One-Child Policy
In a dizzying volte-face, the world’s most murderously anti-natalist regime has become its most pleadingly pro-natalist.
Aaron Sarin
· 15 min read
A Loss of Direction and the Rise of Populisms
There is nevertheless a glimmer of hope—the possibility that, despite recent calamities, we are in fact still living in the Age of Moderation and that this is a blip and not an epochal change
Joseph B. Juhasz and András Tóth
· 16 min read
Shoulders of Giants
Concepts do not have a fixed lifespan. Some concepts are more enduring than others because they have more value.
Greg Ashman
· 12 min read
Freak Power: The Ballot or the Bomb—A Review
Freak Power is a fascinating look into the heart of a grassroots political campaign during a violent era in American history, as one man channelled the rage and confusion of a maligned subculture into a surprisingly coherent and subversive political movement.
David S. Wills
· 8 min read
PODCAST 124: Shelby Steele, Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, on ‘What Killed Michael Brown?’
Author Shelby Steele speaks to Quillette’s Jonathan Kay about white guilt, the ‘poetic truth’ of Ferguson, the dead end of racial grievances, and the creative process of working with his son Eli
Quillette, Jonathan Kay
· 1 min read
Retracting a Controversial Paper Won’t Help Female Scientists
No scientific study is perfect and AlShebli et al.’s is certainly no exception.
Tania Reynolds
· 18 min read
Why Is Scientific Illiteracy So Acceptable?
The Enlightenment was well-named because it led to a greater understanding of ourselves, our society, and our environment, and was accompanied by the rise of the scientific method.
Lawrence M. Krauss
· 7 min read
The Life and Death of Unus Annus
The project provided a unique and occasionally profound experience and a new perspective with which many of its fans had not engaged before—and all that from a YouTube channel!
Nathan Eatwell
· 7 min read
The Fragility of Modern Education in the Time of COVID-19
The COVID-related disruptions of schooling have scattered hundreds of millions of children and adolescents across an archipelago of small islands that are not well-suited to fostering modern educational goals.
David C. Geary
· 15 min read
On the Trail of Delusion—A Review
Why did anyone ever believe Jim Garrison or allow him to ruin the life of an entirely innocent man?
Gerald Posner
· 11 min read
Kin, Tribes, and the Dark Side of Identity
A politics based on membership in a particular religious, racial, or social group rather than broader groupings of people with the same political views was a dubious luxury that our species can simply no longer afford.
Robert Lynch
· 15 min read
Making the World Safe for Autocracy
Brian Stewart
· 4 min read
PODCAST 123: Washington-Based Journalist Brad Polumbo on LGBT Politics in the Pre- and Post-Trump Eras
Brad Polumbo speaks to Quillette’s Jonathan Kay about life as a gay conservative journalist in Washington, D.C., the politics of outing Republican lawmakers, the complex political tensions between LGB and T, and the new journalistic climate that he expects will emerge under Joe Biden.
Quillette, Brad Polumbo
· 1 min read
OnlyFans and the Changing Face of Pornography
OnlyFans is successful, not because it’s extreme, but because it’s innovative. Traditionally, pornography has only really allowed consumers to be passive voyeurs and therefore to see performers as not much more than sexual objects.
Ariel Anderssen
· 8 min read