Why Elites Dislike Standardized Testing
It is absolutely true that the SAT is the reason this scandal occurred.
Daniel Friedman
· 9 min read
The Folly of Disappearing Art and Culture
Leaving gaps of understanding will not help future generations understand our time, and it will not assist students of history in getting a clean grasp of what happened or why.
Libby Emmons
· 7 min read
Paul Manafort and Systemic Bias
Proffering individual/extreme cases like those of Manafort or Turner and weaving them into broad system-wide narratives is not only epistemologically unsound, it is also needlessly incendiary and tactically ill advised.
Joshua Hunter
· 8 min read
Quillette Podcast 21 – Stand-Up Comedian Andrew Doyle Talks About Titania McGrath, His Brilliant Satirical Creation on Twitter
Toby Young talks to Andrew Doyle, stand-up comedian and Spiked-online columnist, about Titania McGrath, his satirical creation on Twitter who describes herself as a “radical intersectionalist poet committed to feminism, social justice and armed peaceful protest.” Titania’s first book—Woke: A Guide to Social Justice—has just been published
Quillette, Andrew Doyle
· 1 min read
Gender’s Journey from Sex to Psychology: A Brief History
“What is a woman?” What should be an easy question for a movement organized around the rights of women, has instead become a real brain-buster.
Tomas Bogardus
· 19 min read
Joe Rogan is the Walter Cronkite of Our Era
Our faith in a cadre of well-trained media professionals, able to set aside their biases to report on and analyze the big stories of our age, hasn’t just eroded.
Konstantin Kisin
· 5 min read
Down the Rabbit Hole of Political Intolerance in Silicon Valley
I took it as a good sign that by the time I got back to our family brunch all I could talk about was what I’d read about this kid (Palmer Luckey) and his incredible company (Oculus).
Blake J. Harris and Clay Routledge
· 10 min read
Attraction Inequality and the Dating Economy
The future of Western civilization may need brave new institutions and brave new ways for men and women to fruitfully relate to each other.
Bradford Tuckfield
· 10 min read
Science Denial Won’t End Sexism
We can acknowledge that male and female brains have differences in structure and function, on average, without subscribing to the belief that one sex is better than the other.
Debra Soh
· 6 min read
The French Genocide That Has Been Air-Brushed From History
For the most influential historians who held positions of power in major French institutions, the French Revolution was not a research topic but an origin myth—the heart of their secular faith’s cosmology.
Jaspreet Singh Boparai
· 18 min read
The Clear Case for Capitalism
At a time when socialism and anti-capitalist populism are experiencing a resurgence, this is my attempt to turn the mysterious capitalist calzone into an appetizing capitalist pizza.
Tyler Hogge
· 13 min read
Moral Zealotry and the Seductive Nature of Evil
It would be nice if evil always announced itself and evil people always looked malevolent. Evil, alas, sometimes wears a nicer face. Otherwise it could be fearsome, but not seductive.
Spencer Case
· 8 min read
Progressivism and the West
The West is not perfect, but it has created prosperity and freedom for millions of people
Bo Winegard
· 14 min read
The Rise and (Possible) Fall of Justin Trudeau Show the Perils of Woke Governance
Whatever the fate of Trudeau in the wake of this scandal, progressive politicians everywhere should take heed of the larger lesson.
Jonathan Kay
· 7 min read
Quillette Podcast 20 – Danish Expert Kay Xander Mellish on Denmark's Rape Culture, Gender Equality and the New, Female-Led, Right-Wing Party
Jonathan Kay talks to Kay Xander Mellish, author of How to Live in Denmark (2014) and How to Work in Denmark (2018) about the recent Amnesty International report claiming Denmark has a “pervasive rape culture,” as well as what it’s like living in the country ranked number two in
Quillette, Jonathan Kay, Kay Xander Mellish
· 1 min read