How Real Is Systemic Racism Today?
The beauty of “systemic racism” is its air of permanence.
John Staddon
· 17 min read
The White Privilege of Being Black
The sad reality is that Martin had no choice but to burble bromides if she wished to remain a member of her progressive intellectual clique.
Allen Farrington
· 7 min read
The Dangers of Defining Deviancy Up
The idea of defining deviancy down has attracted renewed attention from commentators in the Trump era.
Ilana Redstone
· 7 min read
Quillette Podcast 12 - Speeches by Claire Lehmann, Jamie Kilstein, Michael Shermer, Jonathan Kay, Christina Hoff Sommers and Toby Young
Listen to highlights from the speeches made at Quillette‘s party in Toronto by Quillette founder Claire Lehmann, stand-up comic Jamie Kilstein, Skeptic editor Michael Shermer, Quillette‘s Canadian editor Jonathan Kay, author and philosopher Christina Hoff Sommers and Quillette‘s associate editor Toby Young. Thanks to Holding Space Films
Quillette, Claire Lehmann
· 1 min read
How My Toxic Stoicism Helped Me Cope with Brain Cancer
One of my sisters commented that I was so calm she thought the doctors must have given me a Valium.
Jonathan Church
· 12 min read
Thank You, APA
Turns out, the traditional masculinity that drives many of us men to be confident, assertive, adventurous, stoic, and willing to take risks for our goals, the people we love, and sometimes even complete strangers are bad for us and society.
Clay Routledge
· 7 min read
How to Build a Bed
According to a local historian the house was probably occupied by freed slaves, possibly even an interracial couple. By 1840 standards New Orleans was a progressive place.
Stephen Elliott
· 10 min read
Anatomist of Racial Inequality: An Interview with Glenn Loury
Loury has taught at Brown University for over a decade, an institution where pleas for American patriotism are likely to be summarily dismissed. So why does he insist on making them?
Christian Alejandro Gonzalez
· 14 min read
Quand le 'Bye Bye' Éloigne les Deux Solitudes
Ils y ont vu un sketch qui tournait en ridicule le fait que le premier ministre avait lui-même folklorisé, voire caricaturé les coutumes indiennes lors de son périple. Alors que certains anglophones y ont plutôt vu une moquerie…de la communauté indienne.
François Cardinal
· 7 min read
Headline Rhymes
Graham Verdon
· 1 min read
The Case Against a Second EU Referendum
If one referendum isn’t enough to resolve the matter, why would two be enough?
Madeline Grant
· 11 min read
Entering the Mind of an Inuit Whale-Hunter
Klarmann and Eklund didn’t care about getting players to admire Indigenous peoples, even if that is what they achieved. They were just two nerds trying to make a good game.
Jonathan Kay
· 16 min read
Truth and Disfavored Identities
Activists and Twitter blowhards, some of them with thousands of followers, have run roughshod over the facts with a false narrative of grotesque privilege colliding with noble oppression that confirmed their ideological preferences.
Joshua Hunter
· 6 min read
The West's Betrayal of Iranian Dissidents
Iranians who yearn for democracy and an open, prosperous society at peace with the world are met with overwhelming indifference from the West’s media and political leaders.
Mariam Memarsadeghi
· 10 min read
Glenn Greenwald's Bad History
Had Henry A. Wallace become President of the United States, it would have been the equivalent of Stalin directly taking over the highest levels of the American government.
Ronald Radosh
· 9 min read