Publicly Shaming a Musician for Calling a Composition by Its Name
The silencing of a voice does not lead to discourse, in art or in politics.
Kurt Gottschalk
· 7 min read
Four Flavors of Doom: A Taxonomy of Contemporary Pessimism
Pessimism is not just factually wrong, it is also harmful because it undermines our confidence in our ability to bring about further progress.
Maarten Boudry
· 10 min read
The Impressive Record of Theresa May
Skeptics say these are fiddled figures that don’t account for the “explosion” of zero hours contracts.
Tal Tyagi
· 10 min read
The Fog of Youth: The Cornell Student Takeover, 50 Years On
The ethical shortcomings of the 1969 Cornell student rebellion, which appear so glaring today, were anything but clear to us radical activists at the time.
Tony Fels
· 27 min read
What Defenders and Critics Get Wrong about the 'Marketplace of Ideas'
The motif of the marketplace of ideas, Stanley argues, only works with descriptive speech.
Mohamed Ali
· 6 min read
Quillette Podcast 39 – Coleman Hughes on His Reparations Testimony
Jonathan Kay talks to Coleman Hughes about what it was like testifying to Congress about reparations and the reaction his testimony has received. Coleman wrote an article for Quillette about why he’s opposed to reparations in March of this year.
Quillette, Jonathan Kay
· 1 min read
Headline Rhymes
Graham Verdon
· 1 min read
How Free Speech Dies Online
Political speech is the most important category of speech and it is the first category of speech authoritarians will seek to constrain as they consolidate power.
Daniel Friedman
· 14 min read
The Inner Nature of Freedom
The primarily political differences, therefore, emerge over how best to realize freedom, and of course, what freedom itself means.
Matt McManus
· 11 min read
Sedentary Revolutionaries: Two Academics Who Joined the Nazi Party
No private personal ambition is involved; he simply wishes to obey a sovereign whose legitimacy he will not question.
Jaspreet Singh Boparai
· 20 min read
Ideology and Facts Collide at Oberlin College
The recently concluded libel trial involving Oberlin College offered a demonstration of this phenomenon on the part of both the defendants and much of the media covering the case.
Daniel McGraw
· 15 min read
The End of an Era—A Feminist Firebrand Looks Back
As global violence against women gained horrendous momentum, many Western feminists became increasingly afraid to criticize that violence lest they be condemned as colonialists and racists.
Phyllis Chesler
· 14 min read
How a Feminist Prophet Became an Apostate—An Interview with Dr Phyllis Chesler
Dr Phyllis Chesler has never been afraid to be unpopular.
Louise Perry
· 11 min read
My Testimony on Reparations
Racism is a bloody stain on this country’s history, and I consider our failure to pay reparations directly to freed slaves after the Civil War to be one of the greatest injustices ever perpetrated by the U.S. government.
Coleman Hughes
· 4 min read
Quillette Podcast 38 – Jonah Goldberg and Aaron Siberium on the conservative themes of Avengers: Endgame
Toby Young discusses the conservative manifesto buried just beneath the surface of Avengers: Endgame with Jonah Goldberg and Aaron Siberium. Aaron wrote an essay recently about the final instalment of the Avengers saga for Quillette.
Quillette, Toby Young
· 1 min read