'Vice'—A Review
The Republican running the session effortlessly fools the group into accepting facts that the audience (of smart liberals, of course) know to be lies.
Louise Perry
· 7 min read
There’s Nothing 'Intersectional' About Free Speech
This sort of freedom leads to a freer and safer world. At Gab, we will never compromise on our commitment to protect freedom of speech for everyone.
Andrew Torba
· 4 min read
Facebook Has a Right to Block 'Hate Speech'—But Here’s Why It Shouldn’t
The evolution of our content policy not only risked the core of Facebook’s mission, but jeopardized my own alignment with the company.
Brian Amerige
· 17 min read
Understanding Modern African Horrors by Way of the Indian Ocean Slave Trade
The modernizing elites of these groups then fought with the British during WWI and WWII, and demanded independence after the war, which they got.
Geoffrey Clarfield
· 7 min read
The Case for a Second Brexit Referendum Revisited: A Response to Madeline Grant
In the 2017 Act, Parliament simply gave permission to the Government to make the notification under Article 50, and negotiate a Withdrawal Agreement.
Oliver Conolly
· 7 min read
Dear White People, Black People—And All People
Faddish critical framework now commonly used by progressives to describe how racism, sexism, homophobia etc. act upon people in interconnected ways.
Chloé Valdary
· 8 min read
Plastic Pollution is a Real Problem—and It Won't Be Solved by Straw Bans
Majority of micro-plastics emerge as a waste product from the laundering of synthetic clothing and the wear-down of synthetic rubber automobile tyres.
Andrew Glover
· 6 min read
Twelve Scholars Respond to the APA’s Guidance for Treating Men and Boys
Introduction — John P. Wright, Ph.D. John Paul Wright is a professor of criminal justice at the University of Cincinnati. He has published widely on the causes and correlates of human violence. His current work examines how ideology affects scholarship. Follow him on Twitter @cjprofman. Thirteen years in the making,
Quillette
· 19 min read
Liberal Orthodoxy and the New Heresy
Complaint sometimes reflects an honest desire to be able to ask the unaskable, speak the unspeakable, and ponder the imponderable.
Erik Gilbert
· 9 min read
Young Adult Fiction's Online Commissars
Orwell warned that liberty of thought—and literature with it—is endangered when writers in free countries adopt a “totalitarian outlook.”
Cathy Young
· 9 min read
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