Tolkien—A Review
The real-life Tolkien, who loathed trite allegory, would have cringed.
Charlotte Allen
· 7 min read
Why We Should Embrace Our Age of Nuclear
Twenty-nine of the 34 members of the Anthropocene Working Group (AWG) voted this week to declare the invention and testing of nuclear weapons as the beginning of the Anthropocene or geological age of humans.
Michael Shellenberger
· 9 min read
How the IDW Can Avoid the Tribalist Pull
Regardless of how one feels about the “IDW” brand, the heterodox movement associated with that label has had a significant and largely positive cultural impact.
Cathy Young
· 11 min read
What Does Teaching ‘White Privilege’ Actually Accomplish? Not What You Might Think (Or Hope)
But there is a danger that, by talking about this inequality as an all-consuming phenomenon, we will end up creating a flattened and unfair image that portrays all whites in all situations and all contexts as benefiting from unearned advantages.
Zaid Jilani
· 8 min read
Religious Faith and the Family: An Interview with Dr. W. Bradford Wilcox
In the main, religion is a force for good in the families we examined in this report—from 11 countries ranging from Mexico to Canada, from the United States to Ireland.
Clay Routledge
· 6 min read
Quillette Podcast 34 – Greg Ellis on His Career as a Voice Actor on Dragon Age, Call of Duty and God of War
Jonathan Kay talks to the voice actor Greg Ellis about working with the producers of Dragon Age, Call of Duty and God of War, and the difference between voicing video game characters and cartoon characters. Greg is the host of Quillette Narrated. You can visit his website here.
Quillette
· 1 min read
When the Authorities Tell You to Dissent
And I was granted the chance to dip into a strange emerging culture, one whose existence I probably would not have accepted if I hadn’t seen it for myself. It seems the doomsayers are sometimes correct.
Zachary Snowdon Smith
· 8 min read
Free University Tuition: A Cautionary Note from Germany
Tuition-free universities also have problems with student motivation. Most Americans who teach ordinary classes in Germany find average German students somewhat less motivated than their dues-paying American counterparts.
Andrew Hammel
· 6 min read
Straight to Hell: Millenarianism and the Green New Deal
With the Green New Deal, secular apocalyptic ideas have entered the mainstream of American politics. Millenarian thinking has always been present in the US, but it was avowedly religious.
David Adler
· 11 min read
Rethinking Abortion Advocacy
Arbitrary doesn’t mean random and it doesn’t mean cruel.
Coleman Hughes
· 8 min read
At Australian Ballot Boxes, the Left’s Empathy Deficit Came Home to Roost
Progressive politicians like to assume that, on election day at least, blue-collar workers and urban progressives will bridge their differences, and make common cause to support leftist economic policies.
Claire Lehmann
· 5 min read
Identity, Islam, and the Twilight of Liberal Values—A Review
Rather than exposing and opposing the damage done by Islamism in the West, soi disant liberals, leftists, and progressives have acted as its supporters and cheerleaders.
Rumy Hasan
· 6 min read
The Abortion Issue Isn’t About ‘The Patriarchy’
The debate over the morality and legality of abortion is one of the most divisive and enduring issues in American public life.
Andrew Glover
· 6 min read
Goodbye, Herman Wouk
On May 17th, American novelist Herman Wouk died, just ten days before he was due to turn 104. If Ernest Hemingway’s life and career had been as long as those of Herman Wouk, he’d have been alive as recently as 2003 and he’d have published a book
Kevin Mims
· 8 min read
A Contrarian View of Digital Health
Sending millions more people to clinicians, creating a society even more fearful of lurking diseases, and systematically robbing people of the normal arc of life and death–this, I am afraid, is where the digital health expansion is heading.
John Mandrola
· 6 min read