She Who Must Not Be Named
Using “female” instead of “woman” is clearly an attempt to avoid circularity. The problem is that “female” is not something you can identify as.
Helen Joyce
· 6 min read
Exploring 'Other Ways of Knowing': The New Religious Threat to Science Education
In its most elaborate form, EDI subjects science to the same treatment as has already been meted out to the Western literary canon: a relentless deconstruction whereby each axiom, value, and commitment is presented as infected by cultural imperialism.
Lenny Pier Ramos
· 12 min read
PODCAST 96: Helen Joyce on the Odd Redefinition of the Word "Woman"
Listen onSpotify Quillette contributor Helen Joyce talks to Jonathan Kay about the many ways in which gender ideologues have tied themselves in knots by trying to make the sisterhood more “inclusive”.
Quillette, Helen Joyce
· 1 min read
The Purity Paradox: How Tolerance and Intolerance Increase at the Same Time
By relentlessly expanding the concept of intolerance, prevalence-induced concept change ensures none of us can ever be good enough—if we pass one test of tolerance, we are sure to fail the next.
Peter Hughes
· 7 min read
How Britain’s Feminist Grass Roots Turned the Tide Against Gender Extremists
The novelists, librarians, and booksellers circling the wagons to shut women up have been insisting for years that they are motivated by nothing but love and tolerance.
Erin Perse
· 7 min read
White Saviors Need to Leave the Room
We need to have a discussion about racism—including a discussion about what that word means.
Rukhsana Sukhan
· 6 min read
Bad Vibrations: The Lies Universities Tell Their Students about Sex
Universities are free to promote sexual experimentation. But they should be honest that pushing norms and boundaries involves making mistakes.
Samantha Harris and Michael Thad Allen
· 14 min read
Reassessing the Guidance on Face Masks
Overly broad masking requirements are at best useless, and possibly harmful, since they can cause confusion and prompt at least some to rebel against masking if the practice is too onerous or impractical.
Dagfinn Reiersøl
· 7 min read
Seattle’s Summer of Love
Their goals are not reformist, they are revolutionary—they seek conflict not peace, and they have given scant thought about what they wish to build from the rubble of what they destroy.
Andrew Gleeson
· 8 min read
The Ever-Shrinking Transistor and the Invention of Google
The developments of the search engine and social media follow the usual path of innovation: incremental, gradual, serendipitous, and inexorable; few eureka moments or sudden breakthroughs.
Matt Ridley
· 14 min read
PODCAST 95: Joel Kotkin on the Pandemic and its Riotous Aftermath
Listen onSpotify Joel Kotkin, executive director of the Urban Reform Institute and author of The Coming of Neo-Feudalism, talks to Toby Young about the effect of the coronavirus pandemic on American cities and the rioting that broke out following the death of George Floyd. Joel recently wrote about this in
Quillette, Joel Kotkin
· 1 min read
From South American Anthropology to Gender-Crit Cancel Culture: My Strange Feminist Journey
Anthropology taught me how to spot this instinct. Gender-critical feminists taught me how to stand up to it.
Kathleen Lowrey
· 13 min read
The Libertarian History of Science Fiction
The connection between SF and liberty is not simply an accidental byproduct of the colorful history of SF publishing, but a necessary one tied to certain fundamentals of the genre.
Jordan Alexander Hill
· 15 min read
America Has Problems. Tearing Down Statues Won't Solve Them
To the extent we all care about the important underlying issues, such as fighting racial discrimination and promoting opportunity to all, we shouldn’t allow our culture wars over statues and symbols to dominate our discourse.
Zaid Jilani
· 9 min read
Racist Police Violence Reconsidered
Blacks are still somewhat more likely than whites to suffer physical and verbal abuse from the cops even when the behavior of the suspect is taken into account. Findings like these contribute to a general sense that cops treat black people as an enemy.
John McWhorter
· 9 min read