Headline Rhymes
Graham Verdon
· 1 min read
Why Does Ralph Northam Deserve No Mercy?
Elite liberalism is embracing modes of thought that I once associated with the political Right: joy in punishment and us-versus-them thinking.
Zaid Jilani
· 8 min read
The Bolivarian God That Failed
The available scientific and statistical evidence (not to mention common sense) weighs strongly against belief in bodily resurrection from the dead.
Clifton Ross
· 21 min read
Why Do People Tell Me I’m Not Allowed to Write?
The issue was that when a white playwright’s work was produced, casting directors were assuming that they should cast white actors. We were all aghast.
Libby Emmons
· 10 min read
Quillette Podcast 14 – Kat Rosenfield on the mobbing of Amélie Wen Zhao
Canadian editor Jonathan Kay talks to Kat Rosenfield, young-adult author and prolific vlogger and journalist, about Amélie Wen Zhao, a YA writer who’s withdrawn her debut novel Blood Heir after being mobbed for allegedly breaching various politically correct protocols that all YA authors, including people of color, are expected
Quillette
· 1 min read
Homophobia and the Modern Trans Movement
Gender dysphoria gradually has replaced homosexuality as a subject of fascination by clinicians and activists.
Sky Gilbert
· 14 min read
The Virtue Economy
These data are consistent with Amnesty’s findings, where nearly 9 percent of Twitter mentions toward black women were problematic.
Suzie Mulesky
· 16 min read
The Death of a Dreamer
When a public figure makes a mistake there seems to be a much stronger, more intense and quicker backlash.
Will Storr
· 16 min read
How Should We Read the Totalitarian Philosophers?
This is particularly true of Marx and (especially) Heidegger, who gave concrete support to parties and proposals that resulted in the deaths of millions of people.
Matt McManus
· 10 min read
Attention, Star Trek Culture Warriors: Stand Down from Battle Stations
It’s a shame so many viewers apparently were too busy fighting the culture war on planet Earth to watch the much cooler war being fought against Klingon forces in the inky vastness of space.
Matt Gurney
· 7 min read
Quillette Podcast 13 – Bill Kristol on the future of journalism, conservative politics and life after the Weekly Standard
Canadian editor Jonathan Kay talks to Bill Kristol, founder of the Weekly Standard, on the future of journalism, conservative politics, and the stars who emerged from his magazine’s pages, including David Brooks, John Podhoretz, and Christopher Caldwell.
Quillette
· 1 min read
Adventures in Adjunctopia
Among academics, it is considered a badge of honor to be paid in copies, or not at all. After all, you can’t put a price tag on genius!
Steve Salerno
· 6 min read
Are the Classics Complicit in White Supremacy?
No reason to believe that classics as a field has had any particular tendency towards white supremacism either in the present or in the past.
James Kierstead
· 9 min read
Against the Militancy of the French 'Decolonial' Movement
We call on public authorities, heads of cultural, academic, scientific, and research institutions, but also the judiciary, to pull themselves together.
Quillette
· 6 min read
Taking on the Offendotrons: a review of Russell Blackford's 'The Tyranny of Opinion'
I could bang on about offendotrons every week and have to resist the impulse.
Helen Dale
· 15 min read