The Aziz Ansari Paradox
The Aziz Ansari paradox hurts the feminist movement, and therefore also hurts vulnerable women and girls.
Louise Perry
· 9 min read
The Problem with the Effective Altruism Campaign
This critique by no means denounces meliorism, the belief that the world can be made better by human effort.
Christian O'Connor
· 4 min read
Why the American Left Should Embrace Effective Altruism over Provincial Populism
Principle of impartiality, universalizability, equality, or whatever, we cannot discriminate against someone merely because he is far away from us.
Matt Johnson
· 9 min read
Why Renewables Can’t Save the Planet
Dealing with energy sources that are inherently unreliable, and require large amounts of land, comes at a high economic cost.
Michael Shellenberger
· 10 min read
Confronting a New Threat to Female Athletics
The movement for trans inclusion now begins in youth sports, where many leagues have no restrictions beyond self-identification.
Julian Vigo
· 14 min read
Want to Change the World? First, You Have to Listen to It
In rhyming this off, we’re “raising awareness” about the collective action that good citizens can take in the face of a repellant ideology.
Irshad Manji
· 5 min read
Quillette Podcast 19 – Assistant Psychology Professor Bo Winegard on Hereditarianism, Centrism and the Great Awokening
Toby Young talks to Bo Winegard, long-standing Quillette contributor and assistant psychology professor, about three of his articles: On the Reality of Race and the Abhorrence of Racism, Centrism: A Moderate Manifesto and The Preachers of the Great Awokening.
Quillette
· 1 min read
How I was Kicked Out of the Society for Classical Studies Annual Meeting
We must stand up to those who have no interest in the discipline of Classics or its survival—who even seek its destruction.
Mary Frances Williams
· 20 min read
Why I'm Suing Twitter
Twitter is violating its own stated rules, and it is doing so as a means to target specific individuals for ideological reasons.
Meghan Murphy
· 10 min read
The Value of Exercising Civility—in Both Oikos and Polis
A willingness to listen requires us to first recognize that our shared humanity means that we have more in common than that which divides us.
Alexandra Hudson
· 8 min read
The Narcissistic Fracturing of LGBT Literature
The world of the left generally, and of LGBT identity politics specifically, wasn’t always focused on infinite fragmentation within sects.
Nick Comilla
· 10 min read
We Must Defend Free Thought
Scientific and technological progress cannot happen without people thinking freely—so to clamp down on it is to clamp down on progress itself.
Claire Lehmann
· 8 min read
My Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Statement
Part of the problem in discussing this is that the meaning of words, as used in some-but-not-all Social Justice-speak, often differs from common usage.
Lee Jussim
· 7 min read
Headline Rhymes
Graham Verdon
· 1 min read
Motivated Reasoning Is Disfiguring Social Science
The bottom line is that professional guilds such as the APA and AAP have a demonstrable track record of unreliability when speaking on matters of science.
Christopher J. Ferguson
· 8 min read