Remembering Cancel Culture’s 40-Year-Old Stepfather
"Cruising" faced protests and boycotts from gay activists and the LGBTQ+ community, but later became a cult hit.
Adrian Nguyen
· 7 min read
Princeton University is One of the Least Racist Institutions in the World
In his declaration of independence published in Quillette, Katz, a chaired professor in the Classics department, defends the importance of free speech in academia and accuses the authors of the letter of trying to impose unreasonable changes at Princeton.
Sergiu Klainerman
· 6 min read
Humanity's Great Urban Adventure Didn't Begin With Greece and Rome
Even in the darkest period of economic and political collapse, the chain of urban societies that stretched across the Old World was never broken.
Greg Woolf
· 8 min read
PODCAST 101: Comedian Ryan Long Talks to Jonathan Kay About Comedy in the Woke Era (with Transcript)
In comedy, when people talk about punching down there, I know that’s become sort of a theme.
Quillette, Jonathan Kay
· 22 min read
Of Heroic Deeds and Hysterical Masses
Much of today’s madness results from the failure to impart that lesson, a failure in which those ostensible repositories of enlightenment (the nation’s institutions of higher learning), obstinately committed to inflaming self-pity and self-importance, are indisputably and indefensibly complicit.
David A. Eisenberg
· 8 min read
Remembering Reinaldo Arenas and His Enduring Lessons on Repression, Torment, and Exile
All in all, more than 130,000 set sail on rafts and boats made of rotten wood, house doors, truck tires, and anything else that could float.
Jorge C. Carrasco
· 7 min read
COVID-19 Will (Finally) Force American Universities to Reinvent Themselves
Polarization is baked into the current system, and no reform program will completely level the playing field.
Eric R. Terzuolo
· 6 min read
Why Have So Many American Conservatives Embraced COVID-19 Pseudoscience?
But what I’m describing here isn’t evidence-driven debate: It’s angry, ideologically driven luddite mysticism masquerading as hard-headed conservative skepticism.
Nidra Poller
· 7 min read
PODCAST 100: Founder and Editor-in-Chief Claire Lehmann on Quillette's Past and its Future
Editor-in-Chief Claire Lehmann talks to Jonathan Kay about how and why she created Quillette, and her plans for its future.
Quillette, Claire Lehmann, Jonathan Kay
· 1 min read
Is Woke Capitalism Profitable?
When done correctly, woke capitalism functions as a form of costless virtue signalling.
Vincent Harinam
· 14 min read
Denunciation Staged as 'Dialogue': A Review of Claudia Rankine's 'Help'
The lines spoken by the white men on stage were excerpted from responses to her Times article.
Nick Comilla
· 8 min read
What the Right Gets Wrong about Social Justice Culture
Social justice culture is a moral culture, like honor or dignity culture. It’s also a political ideology, like Marxism or liberalism.
Bradley Campbell
· 9 min read
The Truth According to Social Justice—A Review of 'Cynical Theories'
The book explains a half-century arc of intellectual history culminating in our current state of histrionic overreach in the name of social justice.
Jonathan Church
· 8 min read
In Canada's Version of Portland, Cancel Culture Comes for ‘Steve-O-Reno's’
Rommelmann also was eager to move to a city with a vibrant national media presence.
Jonathan Kay
· 9 min read
As Statues Fall, What's the Best Way to Evaluate History's Heroes?
One possibility is that morality is dependent on local circumstances and facts about social order and organization.
Steven D. Hales
· 7 min read