How Prophetic Was Gattaca?
Gattaca was prophetic, but not quite in the way Niccol intended.
George Schifini
· 5 min read
Deplatforming Won't Work
An even more fundamental reason why social media companies shouldn’t try to suppress controversial ideas is that they are very bad at determining who and what is wrong or dangerous.
Nathan Cofnas
· 6 min read
The Hate-Crime Epidemic That Never Was: A Seattle Case Study
An examination of the Seattle data indicates that fewer than 40 actual criminal cases resulting from real, serious hate incidents were successfully prosecuted between 2012 and 2017.
Wilfred Reilly
· 6 min read
The Academic Quarrel over Determinism
Still, the universe is full of things that seem irrefutably evident and yet can’t be well explained or understood.
William Tomos Edwards
· 8 min read
Stonewall's LGBT Guidance is Limiting the Free Speech of Gender Critical Academics
But that’s the thing about freedom of speech: you tend not to notice it being curtailed until it’s your speech that’s being restricted.
Kathleen Stock
· 12 min read
Quillette Podcast 42 – Yale Professor Nicholas Christakis on What Evolution Can Teach Us About Resolving Conflict
Jonathan Kay talks to Nicholas Christakis, Professor of Social and Natural Science at Yale, about his new book Blueprint and what evolution can teach us about overcoming conflict.
Quillette, Nicholas Christakis
· 1 min read
The Uncertain Boundaries of Corporate Morality
Corporations are increasingly prone to formulating explicit moral positions on issues of social importance and punishing those who fail to condone such positions to the extent that they are able to do so.
Cameron Hendy
· 5 min read
Quillette Podcast 41 – Ex-Google Software Engineer Mike Wacker on the Company's Liberal Bias
Jonathan Kay talks to Mike Wacker, the ex-Google software engineer who was fired for exposing the company’s liberal bias. You can read Mike’s piece about working at Google here.
Quillette
· 1 min read
Immigration Policy and the Rise of Anti-Democratic Liberalism—the Case of Israel
In many countries, immigration policy has turned into a litmus test for democratic sovereignty itself.
Gadi Taub
· 14 min read
How Antifa's Apologists Fell in Love With Street Violence
Antifa movements have sprung up in a variety of countries, often opposing Nazis and Nazi sympathizers while also promoting general far-left politics of the Marxist and communist variety.
Robby Soave
· 7 min read
Whither Léon Blum?—Paul Berman's Misplaced Faith in Bernie Sanders
Jeremy Corbyn’s record of praising terrorist organizations and celebrating artwork that looks like it was commissioned by Joseph Goebbels to the long list of condemnations of Labour issued by Jewish organizations in the UK.
Matt Johnson
· 12 min read
Post-Liberal Politics—Left, Right, and Center
By uniting these groups, centrist post-liberals can put the Western world on a new political path, one that promises to restore hope, renew virtue, and recover a shared world.
M.T. Steiner
· 10 min read
Antifa's Brutal Assault on Andy Ngo Is a Wake-Up Call—for Authorities and Journalists Alike
The Antifa thugs who attacked Quillette editor and photojournalist Andy Ngo in Portland yesterday did not quite manage to crack his skull.
Quillette
· 5 min read
Eastern Europe’s Emigration Crisis
According to the UN, of all the countries that are expected to shrink the most in the coming decades, the top 10 are all in the eastern half of the continent, and seven of those are in the European Union.
Josh Adams
· 6 min read
A MeToo Mob Tried to Destroy My Life as a Poet. This Is How I Survived
Poetry is made of breath before any sound, any syllable, is uttered . The inhalation is the first word — and reclaiming my craft taught me how to breathe again.
Joseph Massey
· 19 min read