If we are to realize Zuckerberg´s idea of an internet that is “safe” from “harmful” content, we will have to choose which groups get to enjoy a digital safe space.
An even moderately careful reading of Lolita should make it quite clear that it’s anything but a “celebration” of child rape.
American oil companies didn’t want to topple Saddam Hussein; they wanted to trade with him.
If sensitivity readers become a publishing institution, they will only incentivize more cautious, conservative, and ideologically homogenous books.
We’re not going to return to a worldview that acts as if society is identity-blind.
The ascendancy of technical reason and instrumentalization, Heidegger thought, generated highly inauthentic individuals who were unable to live meaningful lives.
When we are told that 46, XY males with DSD who identify as female are simply “women with hyperandrogenism,” or “women with high T,” we aren’t fooled.
Jonathan Kay talks to two poets – Clint Margrave and Timothy Green – about the shunning of fellow poet Frank Sherlock after he confessed to having been in a skinhead band in the 1980s. Clint Margrave recently wrote an article about Frank Sherlock’s public shaming for Quillette.
Progressives do accept a genetically caused human nature; but, consistent with the claims of their critics, they accept this much less when it is ideologically inconvenient.
There are biological reasons that explain why the experience of being in love feels so overwhelming.
The administrators at St Edmund’s College who determined that Dr Noah Carl should be fired did not have qualifications in these areas, either.
Comedy, on the other hand, reminds us that we all have a dark side and that we might want to reconsider before casting stones.
There are some notable environmentalists who recognize the fact that humans are capable of creating abundance instead of scarcity.
Toby Young talks to the journalist and broadcaster Claire Fox about being a Brexit Party candidate in the forthcoming European Parliament election. How did a former Communist become a candidate for a populist, right-of-centre party?
The mixing of environmentalism and socialism may yet become a mortal threat to the current oligarchy. In the American plutocrat-funded Democratic Party, there is more support for socialism than for capitalism.