Why Taiping 2.0 Isn't in the Cards: A Reply to 'China’s Looming Class Struggle'
Most Chinese farmers are still quite poor by western standards, or those of their city-mouse kin.
D. Marshall
· 9 min read
Reflections on My Decision to Change Gender
It’s the same for a born female going the other way, to male—which by the way seems on recent evidence to be about as frequently desired as male to female.
Deirdre McCloskey
· 19 min read
The Free-Speech Problem on Australian Campuses Is More CCP than SJW
After years of austerity measures implemented by conservative governments, Australia’s publicly-funded higher-education sector is barely solvent.
Drew Pavlou
· 6 min read
Sheep and Mirrors: On Being Social
What is it about other people that bestows such joy, such comfort, such indispensable meaning on our lives?
Emma Wilkins
· 13 min read
The Culture War in Communication Studies
Communication studies is a broad field, encompassing verbal, written and non-verbal sub-categories.
Terry Newman
· 21 min read
PODCAST 62: Steve Richards on Britain's Forthcoming General Election
Veteran political journalist Steve Richards talks to Toby Young about the U.K.’s forthcoming General Election, becoming a stage performer late in life, and his recent book about recent British Prime Ministers. This podcast was recorded in front of a live studio audience at the Battle of Ideas on
Quillette
· 1 min read
Racial Slurs and Deferential Condescension
We are effectively being told that, at this truth-seeking institution, it is inappropriate for us to utter certain indisputably true statements, because the value of truth is trumped by the emotional states of one or another demographic.
Matthew Small
· 5 min read
Climate Change—Assessing the Worst Case Scenario
The activist group Extinction Rebellion is telling us that climate change represents “an unprecedented global emergency” and is calling for radical measures to deal with it.
Dagfinn Reiersøl
· 11 min read
Elite Colleges Reconsidered
The admissions brochures like to focus on the statistics, from the number of Noble laureates on staff to the faculty-student ratio.
Erich J. Prince
· 14 min read
What Is Autogynephilia? An Interview with Dr Ray Blanchard
Modern trans activists reframed transsexualism/transgenderism as a political problem rather than a clinical problem.
Louise Perry
· 10 min read
Science Fiction Purges its Problematic Past
Instead, as speculative fiction becomes more diverse, the sense that it must be corrected grows, and author and art are evaluated together.
Craig DeLancey
· 9 min read
Andrew Yang—Technocratic Populist
Government and policy would be better off if they were presided over and/or dictated by technical experts.
Marshawn Brewer
· 12 min read
Meet the Gay Activists Who've Had Enough of Britain's Ultra-Woke Homophobes
Despite all the harassment to which LGB Alliance already has been subject, the group still got off to a flying start.
Helen Joyce
· 9 min read
PODCAST 61: Dr David Adesnik on ISIS, Syria and the Kurds
Dr David Adesnik, Director of Research at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, talks to Jonathan Kay about ISIS, Syria and the Kurds.
Quillette
· 1 min read
Denial and Defamation—The ITN-LM Libel Trial Revisited, Part II: The Trial
The more someone invests in a lie, the more painful it becomes to renounce.
Jamie Palmer
· 35 min read