The Dishonest and Misogynistic Hate Campaign Against J.K. Rowling
And it turns out that she was, because despite the best efforts of her critics, she hasn’t yet been truly cancelled.
Louise Perry
· 7 min read
Black Lives Matter and the Mechanics of Conformity
Left unrestrained, they can get completely out of hand. The sudden conformity produced by an availability cascade can result in reflexive demands for urgent government action without any proper discussion or consideration of trade-offs, consequences, or even necessity.
Matthew Blackwell
· 17 min read
Corruption and Remorse—The Novels of a Watergate Conspirator
As an avid reader of pop fiction, I’m more partial to the Nixon administration than any other White House. The Reagan years may have produced more crooks, and the Trump years may have produced more chaos, but there is one measure by which the criminal and criminal-adjacent members of
Kevin Mims
· 19 min read
Don’t Listen to the Outrage. ‘Cuties’ Is a Great Film
Allan Stratton
· 12 min read
Lessons of the Pinker Affair: The Problem with the Academy is False Beliefs, Not Intolerance
The correct response to the cancellers is not simply to say that they should respect free speech. Rather, one must say to them that you are attacking people for stating things which are true, while you are stating things which are false.
Richard Hanania
· 7 min read
Reports of Liberalism's Death—A Reply to Yoram Hazony
Our pre-liberal past was far worse than our imperfect present, and attempts to build a utopian post-liberal future have invariably ended in regression to barbarism.
Cathy Young
· 11 min read
PODCAST 111: Suzi Jamil on Think Inc, Heterodox Thinking, and Australia’s Flourishing Intellectual Marketplace
Quillette Editor-in-Chief Claire Lehmann talks to Think Inc Founder Suzi Jamil about the rewards and challenges of bringing the world’s greatest thinkers to Sydney—and their new collaboration, Free Thought Live. You can reserve a spot at their first joint event on September 26th—in which the political satirist
Quillette, Claire Lehmann
· 1 min read
Patient Safety and the Medical Omerta
The sharp decline in popularity of the Catholic Church shows how difficult it is for public trust to be regained once power is abused—if the medical profession does not take its responsibility to protect patients more seriously it risks losing this trust.
Habib Rahman
· 11 min read
The Rule of the Masses
Ortega viewed the mass man as an interloper in technically advanced, liberal democracies he had played no part in building.
G. Gavin Collins
· 12 min read
Anti-Racist Structuralists and Non-Racist Culturalists
Kendi's view of racism does not begin with people, but with inequity. Which means anti-racism should more truthfully be called anti-racial inequity.
G. Thomas Burgess
· 18 min read
The Contradiction That Broke the Modern Right
The parties that have previously sold themselves as staunch defenders of freedom are now the parties most susceptible to authoritarianism.
Grant Wyeth
· 12 min read
Four Decades of Terror: Rio de Janeiro’s Never-Ending 'Drug War'
Rio’s futile, endless war will continue. Like going to the beach, or dancing samba, waging war is a way of life in Rio de Janeiro.
Damian Platt
· 16 min read
Under the Frog: Why Tibor Fischer’s 1992 Booker-Nominated Novel May Have Found its Moment
Under the Frog was based on his Magyar parents, both of them basketball players who, in the wake of the doomed 1956 uprising against the Soviets, fled Hungary for Britain.
Robin Ashenden
· 11 min read
At the Intersection of Art and Science: Revisiting EO Wilson’s 'Consilience'
Artists and scientists have a reductionist’s idea of one another and perceive the other as a threat.
Clint Margrave
· 6 min read
The WEIRDest People in the World—A Review
WEIRD individuals are psychologically peculiar in a number of ways.
Alex Mackiel
· 7 min read