In Defense of Scientism
Once we have identified a desirable end—human flourishing—we can and should use science to discover and promote the policies that encourage it.
Bo Winegard and Ben Winegard
· 14 min read
How Our Little Humanist Club Got Taken Over by Social Justice Dogmatists
It seems wrong that the Executive Director of a humanist association should be able to use his organization’s governing mechanisms to shut down pushback against his publicly expressed ideological agenda.
Baz Edmeades
· 9 min read
Sex Differences, Gender, and Competitive Sport
What are the physiological and anatomical differences between men and women that affect performance?
Andrew Langford
· 13 min read
Supporters of Quillette
Here is just a sample of what some readers you may know are saying.
Quillette
· 4 min read
What They Don’t Teach You at the University of Washington’s Ed School
With little practical training or preparation, graduates of the program begin their teaching careers woefully unprepared.
Nick Wilson
· 12 min read
#NotMe: On Harassment, Empowerment, and Feminine Virtue
My feminine virtue, traditionally understood, allowed me to control men.
Marilyn Simon
· 10 min read
Quillette Podcast 25 – Professor Robert Tombs on Why the English Intelligentsia Hates Brexit
Toby Young talks to Robert Tombs, Cambridge history professor, about why he supports Brexit, why so many of his colleagues don’t, whether the English intelligentsia’s loathing of their country is a uniquely English characteristic, and what their reaction is likely to be if the United Kingdom does eventually
Quillette
· 1 min read
The Scars of Rwanda, 25 Years On
Dallaire, abandoned in hell, the commander unable to command, let alone protect, developed severe post-traumatic stress disorder.
Jessica Robeson
· 12 min read
The Goodness Paradox—A Review
Biologists have lately awoken to the news that their science makes them heretics in the postmodern imperium, and guilty of retailing the ideas most heretical to the progressive, constructivist, utopian-egalitarian worldview.
Didier Maleuvre
· 7 min read
What New York's Public Schools Could Learn From Stuyvesant
Stuyvesant is one of eight “specialized high schools” in New York which admit students on the basis of their scores on the Specialized High School Admissions Test (SHSAT).
Daniel Friedman
· 12 min read
Cambridge University’s Shameful Treatment of Jordan Peterson
To insinuate that Jordan Peterson is a contributor to sectarianism and division is the opposite of the truth.
Stephen Blackwood
· 9 min read
Prescriptive Racialism and Racial Exclusion
Today, it has become central to the worldview of many on the social justice Left.
Mohamed Ali
· 5 min read
Activists Must Stop Harassing Scientists
It’s becoming very difficult to argue with—let alone prove wrong—those scientists who claim it’s easier to hide or move abroad than endure the wrath of the enforcers of contemporary moral orthodoxy.
Peggy Sastre
· 8 min read
When a Question of Science Brooks No Dissent
Back in December 2012, six days after a mass shooting ended the lives of 20 students and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown
Myles Weber
· 14 min read
Free Speech for Me, But Not for Thee
How can students advocate for speech codes and still believe that freedom of speech is secure?
Pamela Paresky
· 7 min read