Understanding the Motivated Reasoning of Anti-Vax Refuseniks
Vaccine refusal also correlates with a feeling of alienation from the wider culture—what sociologists call “anomie.”
Richard Redding
· 6 min read
The Moral Panic about Eugenics Poses a Threat to Abortion Rights
One of the reasons abortion bans on the basis of prenatal diagnoses may have received relatively little attention is because they leave the pro-choice Left in an uncomfortable ethical position.
Diana Fleischman
· 10 min read
The Status Game: Male, Grandiose, Humiliated
When grandiose men are humiliated, the fallout turns catastrophic.
Will Storr
· 15 min read
Podcast #165: Peter Boghossian on Why He Quit Portland State University
Listen onSpotify “Grievance Studies” hoaxster and philosophy professor Peter Boghossian tells Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay why he could no longer continue waging his struggle for intellectual pluralism without first shaking off the ideological constraints of campus life.
Quillette, James Lindsay and Peter Boghossian
· 1 min read
Male Underachievement and the Gender Turf Wars
The educational advancement of women is strange when viewed alongside the floundering of men.
Ari David Blaff
· 10 min read
Judith Butler: Enough Already!
Maybe Butler is an anti-identitarian when it comes to gender, but she sure defends her political identity most rigidly, indeed, in an obscurantist way.
Lama Abu-Odeh
· 7 min read
Twenty Years Later, Engineering Experts Explain How The Twin Towers Collapsed
Some have questioned why the buildings did not “topple over” after being struck side-on by aircraft. But the answer becomes clear once you consider the details.
Quillette
· 6 min read
Weekly Round Up
Quillette
· 3 min read
The Good Death—Cancel Culture and the Logic of Torture
It is unsettling to consider how similar today’s public cancellations are to those public executions.
Christophe Van Eecke
· 20 min read
'The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality'—A Review
The scientific idea that one’s genes affect one’s life outcomes isn’t novel.
Robert VerBruggen
· 10 min read
Quillette's Best on Gender Identity
When Sons Become Daughters | Angus Fox * Part 1 * Part 2 * Part 3 * Part 4 * Part 5 * Part 6 “Parents have been complaining about their kids’ lifestyle choices and political convictions since the dawn of time, of course. But rarely have such choices involved committing oneself to the possibility of sterility
Quillette
· 4 min read
Jessie Tu and the Fashionably Regressive Approach to Reading
The world of literature has expanded its horizons in recent decades, and the quality of writing from voices that may not have been published in decades past is something for which we should be grateful.
Neil Tully
· 6 min read
The Truth about Autogynephilia
Sexual tastes you do not share are inevitably hard to comprehend. But autogynephilia is especially so, since it is rare and even more rarely spoken of.
Helen Joyce
· 17 min read
Podcast #164: Comedian and Podcaster Jamie Kilstein on His COVID-Era Struggles
Listen onSpotify Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Jamie Kilstein about the challenges he's faced since his excommunication from California's progressive entertainment circles.
Quillette, Jamie Kilstein
· 1 min read
Why Culture Matters for Racial Disparities
It has become virtually axiomatic among progressives that any factor invoked to explain racial disparities which is not “structural” reflects a racist belief.
Jonathan Church
· 19 min read