No One Is Born in ‘The Wrong Body’
The fact is, no child is actually born in the wrong body.
Postmodernism's Dead End
Equally important is that this new definition of usefulness extends to nonhuman nature as well.
Maximilian Werner
· 10 min read
Why Has Kamala Harris's Campaign Fizzled?
The logic of a Harris candidacy rests on her coalition-building skills.
Josh Adams
· 5 min read
PODCAST 54: New York Times Editor Bari Weiss on Her New Book
New York Times editor and opinion writer Bari Weiss talks to Jonathan Kay about How to Fight Anti-Semitism, her new book on the rise in anti-Semitism in the U.S. on the Left and the Right, and what we can do to combat it. Featured image, Bari Weiss on Real
Quillette, Jonathan Kay
· 1 min read
How the Trans-Rights Movement Is Turning Philosophers Into Activists
Can we not treat trans people as the sex they identify with for almost all purposes, and still make some distinctions when it comes to female-only spaces, services and provisions?
Holly Lawford-Smith
· 17 min read
Michel Houellebecq: Populism's Prophet
Populism has been unpacked, dissected, defined, and analysed, and the results have all been discouraging.
G. Gavin Collins
· 16 min read
In the U.S. Campus Speech Wars, Palestinian Advocacy Is a Blind Spot
This silencing campaign presents itself as inclusive and therapeutic. In reality, it poses a significant threat to intellectual and academic freedom, yet one that seems perennially overlooked in the campus speech wars.
Andy Lamey
· 19 min read
Diet Reporting—the Real Fake News
Experimentation is usually impossible for ethical and practical reasons—subjects cannot be sacrificed and dissected to see the physiological effects of different food regimens.
John Staddon
· 7 min read
Confessions of a Social Constructionist
If I had known, 20 years ago, that my side in the ideological wars over gender and sex was going to win so decisively, I would have been ecstatic
Christopher Dummitt
· 15 min read
Understanding America's Cultural and Political Realignment
To understand our politics, we need to understand the cultural values that drive it.
Richard Tafel
· 11 min read
PODCAST 53: Gay Rights Activist Shane Windmeyer on his Changing Attitude to Chick-Fil-A
Gay rights activist Shane Windmeyer talks to Jonathan Kay about his changing attitude to Chick-fil-A, which recently opened its first outlet in Toronto. As the founder of Campus Pride, a nationwide LGBT student activist group, Windmeyer was originally a sworn enemy of Chick-fil-A because the company has donated to groups
Quillette, Jonathan Kay
· 1 min read
Europe’s Virtues Will Be Its Undoing
Ever since, all of Europe—the East as well as the West—has carried the burden of Nazi guilt, as others would have us bear the guilt of North American slavery and Jim Crow.
Pascal Bruckner
· 25 min read
There is No ‘Gay Gene,’ but Sexuality is Affected by Many Genes of Small Effect
Day by day, as genetic science advances, it becomes ever clearer that all psychological traits are genetically influenced.
Jerry Barnett
· 4 min read
Greece: Tensions Rise Again As Migrant Crisis Escalates
Migration in the Mediterranean has increased in recent weeks to the highest level since the EU-Turkey deal in March, 2016, and Greece is back to being the main entry point for hopeful migrants.
Nektaria Stamouli
· 6 min read
William Peter Blatty's Counter-Countercultural Parable
In her new book Primal Screams: How the Sexual Revolution Created Identity Politics (excerpted in Quillette on August 27), essayist and cultural critic Mary Eberstadt documents just how damaging the sexual revolution of the 1960s, and its normalization of divorce in particular, has been to America’s children. She mentions
Kevin Mims
· 13 min read