What PETA Has Cost the Animal Rights Movement
In fact, the word “PETA” has become a pejorative for stunts, gimmicks, and putting feelings over facts when it comes to animal issues.
Jacy Reese
· 5 min read
Quillette Podcast 8 - Trans software developer Corinna Cohn explains why she disagrees with many trans orthodoxies
Canadian editor Jonathan Kay talks to Corinna Cohn, a trans woman and Indianapolis-based software developer who disagrees with Twitter’s policy of banning users who “deadname” trans people and, more generally, doesn’t believe she is obliged to support the causes associated with the Social Justice movement just because Social
Quillette
· 1 min read
From Astrology to Cult Politics—the Many Ways We Try (and Fail) to Replace Religion
Implicit in the blank-slate take on religion is the idea that religious faith may be diminished simply by changing the type of cultural inputs people receive.
Clay Routledge
· 7 min read
Refighting the Usage Wars
It all starts with the “Usage Wars,” a somewhat arcane but fiercely political battle over the English language that’s been raging for decades.
Michael O'Keefe
· 7 min read
Democratic Socialism or Social Democracy?
The function of the label “democratic socialist” is being changed through usage. Take, for example, the political label “liberal.”
Alexander Blum
· 7 min read
Feast and Drink For Our Community's Health
Large-scale studies have found that around ten percent of adults in Western nations experience chronic loneliness.
Claire Lehmann
· 6 min read
American Universities' China Problem
When the institutions we entrust to pursue the truth start avoiding the truth—particularly academic research that few of us can do on our own—we all suffer.
Robert Precht
· 4 min read
"Heroic Guerrilla"—From Revolutionary Militant to Saint
Before his corpse was cold, the Che cult had a ready-made logo; a brand. But what exactly does it signify?
George Schifini
· 13 min read
The Anti-Natalist Paradox
Would any reasonable person neglect such an opportunity? Surely, it seems obvious that any other option would be patently unethical?
Kenton Engel
· 7 min read
Population and Policy—A Rejoinder to Szurmak and Desrochers
S&D argue that market economies will fix all negative side-effects of technological development spontaneously because of the commercial value of the effluents.
Christian Berggren
· 5 min read
A Tale of Two Cities: The Modern Soothsayers
How much longer people are going to listen to these modern soothsayers. At this point, they are naked lobbyists for entrenched special interests.
Neema Parvini
· 5 min read
Solzhenitsyn: The Fall of a Prophet
In exile, Solzhenitsyn turned to harsh criticism of the West, not just for failing to stand up to the Soviet regime and fully confront its malevolence.
Cathy Young
· 14 min read
Headline Rhymes
Graham Verdon
· 1 min read
In Defense of Male Stoicism
Endless articles and innumerable campaigns have been devoted to helping men cry, ending the phrase “man up” and, above all, getting men to talk.
Ben Sixsmith
· 6 min read
Quillette Podcast 7 - Jonathan Church on 'White Privilege,' 'White Fragility' and 'Unconscious Bias'
Associate editor Toby Young talks to Jonathan Church, Quillette contributor and economist, about ‘white privilege,’ ‘white fragility,’ ‘color-blind racism,’ ‘unconscious bias,’ ‘micro-aggressions’ and why the Social Justice Left is more interested in punishing whites than understanding the complexity of racial inequality.
Quillette
· 1 min read