Chile’s Elites Are Creating Another Latin American Populist Meltdown. Voters Must Stop Them
The main hope for Chile lies with the requirement that voters approve any new constitution.
Axel Kaiser
· 7 min read
The Importance of Blasphemy
Brian Stewart
· 5 min read
The Dead Are Rising—A Review
The Dead are Arising offers similarly interesting insights into Malcolm X’s adolescence and adult life.
Clayton Trutor
· 7 min read
Philosophy Is Being Hijacked by Woke Twitter Mobs
Van Leeuwen and Herschbach wrote a statement on Facebook reiterating that the review process had been carried out properly, and declaring, “Efforts to silence unwelcome opinion… are doing a disservice to the community.”
Nathan Cofnas
· 6 min read
The Real Causes of Human Sex Differences
The prevailing view in the social and behavioral sciences is that human sex differences are typically small in magnitude, largely social in origin, and driven by gender roles (below).
David C. Geary
· 12 min read
PODCAST 117: Lucy Kross Wallace on Her Descent Into (and Escape From) Social-Justice Extremism
Quillette
· 1 min read
The Coming Post-COVID Global Order
The pandemic crisis is rapidly becoming a civilizational crisis.
Joel Kotkin and Hügo Krüger
· 11 min read
My Own Private Château—Pauline Réage’s ‘Story of O’ Revisited
Our culture makes a well intentioned but dangerous error in taking every thought experiment, every utterance, every representation, every fantasy of sexual expression seriously.
Marilyn Simon
· 14 min read
Not All Identities Are Created Equal
The revival of racial identity to tackle social injustice reawakens an ancient beast.
Razib Khan
· 11 min read
Who Speaks for Black Lives Matter? The Answer Can Be Complicated
As one might imagine, it generally is opposed by many Black Lives Matter supporters, as they disagree with any implied parallel between racist treatment of blacks and the occupational hazards of police work.
Steven Volynets
· 13 min read
Slack Wars: Corporate America’s Woke Insurgency
Labor leaders no longer even pretend they can staunch the layoffs, and so their focus increasingly has turned to questions of editorial direction and ideology, over which they still believe they can exert leverage through the back door of social media.
Quillette
· 10 min read
PODCAST 116: Asra Nomani on the Damage Inflicted on Asian-American Students by Critical Race Theory
Jonathan Kay talks to writer Asra Nomani about the campaign to end race-neutral admissions testing at Thomas Jefferson High School in Virginia, America’s best public high school—and the disturbing attacks on Asian academic “culture” that have come with it
Quillette, Asra Q. Nomani
· 1 min read
The Moral Panic over 'Sexualisation'
I regularly found myself on national TV and radio, opposing the idea that the state should act to stop teenagers accessing sexual material.
Jerry Barnett
· 12 min read
My Brief Spell as an Activist
I was on fire, and at the same time, I was fragile.
Lucy Kross Wallace
· 14 min read
The Lawrence Mead Affair
If someone puts forward a controversial theory, others should have the chance to criticise it.
Noah Carl
· 6 min read