Policing the Creative Imagination
If sensitivity readers become a publishing institution, they will only incentivize more cautious, conservative, and ideologically homogenous books.
Craig DeLancey
· 9 min read
On the IDW: A Response to Eric Weinstein
We’re not going to return to a worldview that acts as if society is identity-blind.
Uri Harris
· 7 min read
Why We Should Read Heidegger
The ascendancy of technical reason and instrumentalization, Heidegger thought, generated highly inauthentic individuals who were unable to live meaningful lives.
Matt McManus
· 11 min read
A Victory for Female Athletes Everywhere
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.
Doriane Lambelet Coleman
· 25 min read
Quillette Podcast 31 – Two poets, Clint Margrave and Timothy Green, discuss the public shaming of fellow poet Frank Sherlock
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.
Quillette
· 1 min read
Selective Blank Slatism and Ideologically Motivated Misunderstandings
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.
Bo Winegard, Cory Clark
· 8 min read
Sex, Love, and Knowing the Difference
There are biological reasons that explain why the experience of being in love feels so overwhelming.
Debra Soh
· 6 min read
Cambridge Capitulates to the Mob and Fires a Young Scholar
The administrators at St Edmund’s College who determined that Dr Noah Carl should be fired did not have qualifications in these areas, either.
Claire Lehmann
· 25 min read
Imperfect Comedy in an Age of Perfection
Comedy, on the other hand, reminds us that we all have a dark side and that we might want to reconsider before casting stones.
Tanael Joachim
· 4 min read
How Anti-Humanism Conquered the Left
There are some notable environmentalists who recognize the fact that humans are capable of creating abundance instead of scarcity.
Chelsea Follett
· 7 min read
Quillette Podcast 30 – Ex-Communist Claire Fox on why she's standing as a Brexit Party candidate for the European Parliament
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?
Quillette, Claire Fox
· 1 min read
Our Suicidal Elites
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.
Joel Kotkin
· 9 min read
The Moral Panic Behind Internet Regulation
This will make the internet a much less free place to speak compared to Speakers’ Corner at Hyde Park—the place which is supposed to represent Britain’s commitment to free speech.
Matthew Lesh
· 14 min read
Bret Easton Ellis Nails Contemporary America
The Gen Xer whose satirical works include “American Psycho” and “Less Than Zero” also grasps the true essence of Donald Trump and our times in a way that eludes commentators on the Left and Right.
Christian Whiton
· 4 min read
Lessons in Forgiveness, from a Bicycle Thief
Nothing is again simple, but everything is clear. This is the great lesson of empathy. We are all the bicycle thief.
Brad Cran
· 24 min read