Can We Boost Empathy Through Perspective-Taking?
One of the ways we have been taught to nurture empathy is by deliberately trying to take the perspective of a suffering person.
Michael McCullough
· 6 min read
PODCAST 73: George Orwell's biographer on the 70th anniversary of his death
Richard Bradford, author of Orwell: A Man of Our Time, talks to Toby Young about why Orwell still has a great deal to teach us 70 years after his death. You can read Richard’s recent piece about how Orwell anticipated both Brexit and Boris Johnson’s election victory in
Quillette, Toby Young
· 1 min read
How Long Before the Regime Falls in Iran?
Opposition to the regime is not just to be found in the clergy. It is wide and deep but also unfocused.
Art Keller
· 12 min read
Margaret Atwood Wrote a Great Novel. Unfortunately, Her Fans Turned It Into a Cult
Atwood’s innovation is to give this dystopian nightmare the distinctly female framing of domestic and sexual enslavement—as experienced by “Offred,” a “Handmaid” assigned to a man named Fred and his wife for surrogate motherhood via monthly copulation.
Cathy Young
· 15 min read
PODCAST 72: Jamie Kilstein and Paul Provenza on the state of comedy
Comedian and podcast host Jamie Kilstein talks to fellow stand-up Paul Provenza about Ricky Gervais’s monologue at the Golden Globes and whether comedy is finally emerging from under a cloud of woke humourlessness. You can listen to more podcasts hosted by Jamie Kilstein here.
Quillette, Jamie Kilstein
· 1 min read
Goa, Gods, Gandhi and Greed: Lessons in Colonialism from Four Boardgames
It’s really a collection of subcultures, since fans of one gaming niche often have little interest in any of the others.
Jonathan Kay
· 12 min read
Why I Resigned from Tavistock: Trans-Identified Children Need Therapy, Not Just 'Affirmation' and Drugs
Over the past five years, there has been a 400 percent rise in referrals to the Tavistock Centre in north London, the only National Health Service (NHS) clinic in Britain that treats children with gender-identity developmental issues. During this period, there also has been an abrupt shift in the composition
Marcus Evans
· 19 min read
All the Single Ladies
Some women do marry men with less education, though. These women tend to marry men who earn more than them.
Vincent Harinam, Rob Henderson
· 13 min read
Glassdoor Is Broken
In every instance there were detailed discussions about what’s missing and how to do better, delivered in a spirit of “hey, we’re not on a good path here.”
Peter L. Levin
· 12 min read
Studying the Links Between White Supremacist Terrorists and School Shooters
Lone wolves, broken homes, and online radicalisation.
Yagil Henkin
· 13 min read
Remembering Roger Scruton, Defender of Reason in a World of Postmodern Jackals
Scruton did not entertain petty prejudices, and had no wish to tell anyone how to live or who to love.
Barbara Kay
· 8 min read
Reflections on Intersectionality
Different forms of suffering cannot easily be quantified and compared.
Coleman Hughes
· 7 min read
PODCAST 71: Daniel Hannan talks about the late Sir Roger Scruton
Daniel Hannan, the Conservative Member of the European Parliament for South East England, talks to Toby Young about his lifelong friendship with the late Conservative philosopher Sir Roger Scruton.
Quillette, Toby Young
· 1 min read
Gambling in a Time of Despair
If lawmakers want to help their constituents fight compulsive gambling, then putting the brakes on legalization is the most impactful policy in the short term.
Roy Wayne Meredith III
· 9 min read
An Evolutionary Explanation for Unscientific Beliefs
To understand morality from an evolutionary point of view, one needs to realize that humans have always existed in groups.
Brandon Bretl
· 6 min read