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Saving Liberalism from ‘The Identity Trap’: An Interview with Yascha Mounk

In an acclaimed new book, the German-American political scientist traces the rise of illiberal intellectual movements among modern progressives.

Jonathan Kay

19 Sep 2023 · 13 min read

Inescapable Disparities

Thomas Sowell’s new book reminds us that the world has never been a level playing field and we will not be able to engineer one.

Hannah Gal

18 Sep 2023 · 11 min read

Charles Darwin: The Best Scientist-Writer of All Time

The Voyage of the Beagle is a literary masterpiece, as well as a scientific one.

Lawrence M. Krauss

18 Sep 2023 · 9 min read

The Cancellation of Bertrand Russell

Eight decades later, the issues raised by the Russell case—the rights to free speech and academic freedom—have still not been settled.

James Huffman

15 Sep 2023 · 9 min read

Sex Discrimination Without Sex

Sex, according to the Australian Sex Discrimination Commissioner, means almost nothing at all.

Holly Lawford-Smith

15 Sep 2023 · 10 min read

Dogmatism, Data, and Public Health

A look back on the 2003 BMJ controversy over passive smoking and mortality.

Geoffrey C. Kabat

15 Sep 2023 · 20 min read

History Matters

A restoration of history, in all its complexity, is critical to escaping the polarized, rigid, and often insane political environment we now inhabit.

Joel Kotkin

14 Sep 2023 · 15 min read

Economics is Not a Game of Monopoly

The standard textbook model of monopoly economics only applies to the real world in a narrow range of circumstances.

Saul Zimet

14 Sep 2023 · 6 min read

Podcast #223: Tracing the Roots of the Ideological Movement (Formerly) Known as Wokeness

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with The Identity Trap author Yascha Mounk about the role of Karl Marx, Michel Foucault, Edward Said, and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak in shaping today’s illiberal, identity-fixated political mantras—and how we can help lead progressives back to their liberal roots.

Quillette

14 Sep 2023 · 1 min read

Libertarian Limitations

Andrew Koppelman’s analysis of libertarianism is rich in detail and full of thought-provoking ideas.

Marco den Ouden

12 Sep 2023 · 16 min read

Podcast #222: Journalist John Colapinto on the Tragic Tale of David Reimer, The Boy Who Was Raised a Girl

A cautionary tale of what can happen when you mess with a child's gender identity.

Quillette

12 Sep 2023 · 1 min read

Academia’s Missing Men

Men are disappearing from science and academia. The public perception is, however, exactly the opposite.

Lawrence M. Krauss

11 Sep 2023 · 9 min read

A Kiss Is Just a Kiss

The uproar over a fleeting outburst of uninhibited joy is ludicrous.

Heather Mac Donald

11 Sep 2023 · 8 min read

A Cartographer for the Ages

In the eleventh instalment of his series on the history of Canada, Greg Koabel describes how Samuel de Champlain fundamentally redirected France’s transatlantic colonial project

Greg Koabel

9 Sep 2023 · 22 min read