Podcast #157: Christopher Rufo’s Whirlwind Campaign Against Critical Race Theory
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Quillette
· 1 min read
Almost Four Decades After Its Birth, The Diversity Industry Thrives on Its Own Failures
The increasing power of college diversity bureaucrats over academic affairs since the 1990s has been stunning.
Heather Mac Donald
· 10 min read
Truth, Polarization, and the Nature of Our Beliefs
Like other Americans, I’m depressed by the growing level of political partisanship. There seem to be a lot more people with extreme beliefs yelling at us. The ends of the belief spectrum are engorged, the center hollowed out. It’s frequently alleged that extremists don’t care about truth,
Howard Darmstadter
· 13 min read
As a Gay Child in a Christian Cult, I Was Taught to Hate Myself. Then I Joined the Church of Social Justice—and Nothing Changed
I grew up in the suburbs of Baltimore, Maryland, in a fundamentalist Christian community called The Lamb of God. What began in the mid-1970s as a small group of born-again hippies who played music, prayed together, and proselytized to whoever would listen about Jesus’s unconditional love and mercy, descended
Ben Appel
· 42 min read
Ending Lockdown
“Consider too what undesirable deaths occur in wartime. Men are killed in places where they knew they might be killed and to which they go, if they are at all of the enemy’s party, prepared. How much better for us if all humans died in costly nursing homes amid
Sam Ashworth-Hayes
· 4 min read
Whatever It Is, It Ain’t Aliens
From my knowledge of the world that I see around me, I think that it is much more likely that the reports of flying saucers are the results of the known irrational characteristics of terrestrial intelligence than of the unknown rational efforts of extra-terrestrial intelligence. ~Richard P. Feynman, The Character
Lawrence M. Krauss
· 6 min read
How All My Politically Correct Bones Were Broken
In my first 10 years of college teaching, from the mid-60s to mid-70s, I modeled myself on my best teachers—men and women who questioned my ideas vigorously. They let me know that I mattered to them, they praised when praise was due, and they pushed me hard. Often I
Gregory Hansen
· 22 min read
Looking for COVID-19 ‘Miracle Drugs’? We Already Have Them. They’re Called Vaccines
The evidence that mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines are safe, and that they work, is about as solid as medical evidence gets.
Claire Berlinski and Yuri Deigin
· 14 min read
Podcast #156: Christian Toto on Progressive Ideological Inroads Into Children’s Shows, Anti-Racist Baby Books, And… Breakfast Cereal
Listen onSpotify Quillette’s Jonathan Kay speaks to film writer Christian Toto about his RealClearInvestigations look into the increasingly direct identity-politics messaging that now is being pushed on North American toddlers through television, books, and marketing.
Quillette, Jonathan Kay
· 2 min read
Jonathan Kay
Jonathan Kay is an editor and writer at Quillette, a TedX speaker, an op-ed columnist at National Post, and host of the Quillette podcast. His work has appeared recently in the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Atlantic, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Skeptic, Canadian Lawyer and Canadian Jewish News.
Quillette, Jonathan Kay
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Huxley, Burroughs, and the Church of Scientology
Like it or not, hidden within those influential texts are the bizarre jargon and lunatic assertions of a mendacious madman.
David S. Wills
· 13 min read
Blessed Are the Sense-Makers
Years from now, if anyone looks at a line graph (in the OED or Google dictionary) tracking the frequency with which a word is mentioned in print, they may notice the current affinity for the word “narrative.” An already overworked word (by virtue of its abstractness), it is now almost
Jared Marcel Pollen
· 11 min read
Standing up to the Social-Justice Mobs Within the Jewish Community
The white Jewish leaders who attended were told in advance that they were expected to come and listen—to be seen and not heard.
David Bernstein
· 12 min read
On the Dangers of Big COVID
One need not posit some secret cabal of illuminati lizard people or the creation of a clandestine 5G-COVID bioweapon to make sense of the rise and potential dangers of Big COVID.
Michael Robillard
· 14 min read
The Prophet of Dystopia at Rest: Margaret Atwood in Cuba
Canada has never supported the US embargo, and the countries’ good relations are for many Canadians a symbol of our independence.
Yvon Grenier
· 13 min read