How Progressivism Enabled the Rise of the Populist Right
Progressives will look askance at these policies, decrying them as racist and fleeing to Green or other political alternatives.
Eric Kaufmann
· 9 min read
Bukowski: Recommended Reading for the Damned
Were he still alive, he most certainly would not meet the demands of today’s “sensitivity readers,” nor those imbedded in the big publishing houses who scan a writer’s work for transgressions, nor those on social media who do the same with a writer’s personal life.
Clint Margrave
· 11 min read
Michael Oakeshott and the Intellectual Roots of Postmodern Conservatism
For instance, postmodern conservatives are reticent to trust rationalistic arguments made by cosmopolitan “elites” who stress that we have moral obligations to all individuals, regardless of where they come from.
Matt McManus
· 10 min read
The Crisis of Sense-Making
The first impulse, typically, has been to understand these changes in purely political terms. And so, in this telling, the crisis in sense-making is merely a series of political conflicts, with winners and losers.
Jeffrey Quackenbush
· 9 min read
How Can We Manage the Process of Western ‘Whiteshift’?
Ethno-traditional nationalists favour slower immigration in order to permit enough immigrants to voluntarily assimilate into the ethnic majority, maintaining the white ethno-tradition.
Eric Kaufmann
· 13 min read
Tolkien—A Review
The real-life Tolkien, who loathed trite allegory, would have cringed.
Charlotte Allen
· 7 min read
Why We Should Embrace Our Age of Nuclear
Twenty-nine of the 34 members of the Anthropocene Working Group (AWG) voted this week to declare the invention and testing of nuclear weapons as the beginning of the Anthropocene or geological age of humans.
Michael Shellenberger
· 9 min read
How the IDW Can Avoid the Tribalist Pull
Regardless of how one feels about the “IDW” brand, the heterodox movement associated with that label has had a significant and largely positive cultural impact.
Cathy Young
· 11 min read
What Does Teaching ‘White Privilege’ Actually Accomplish? Not What You Might Think (Or Hope)
But there is a danger that, by talking about this inequality as an all-consuming phenomenon, we will end up creating a flattened and unfair image that portrays all whites in all situations and all contexts as benefiting from unearned advantages.
Zaid Jilani
· 8 min read
Religious Faith and the Family: An Interview with Dr. W. Bradford Wilcox
In the main, religion is a force for good in the families we examined in this report—from 11 countries ranging from Mexico to Canada, from the United States to Ireland.
Clay Routledge
· 6 min read
Quillette Podcast 34 – Greg Ellis on His Career as a Voice Actor on Dragon Age, Call of Duty and God of War
Jonathan Kay talks to the voice actor Greg Ellis about working with the producers of Dragon Age, Call of Duty and God of War, and the difference between voicing video game characters and cartoon characters. Greg is the host of Quillette Narrated. You can visit his website here.
Quillette
· 1 min read
When the Authorities Tell You to Dissent
And I was granted the chance to dip into a strange emerging culture, one whose existence I probably would not have accepted if I hadn’t seen it for myself. It seems the doomsayers are sometimes correct.
Zachary Snowdon Smith
· 8 min read
Free University Tuition: A Cautionary Note from Germany
Tuition-free universities also have problems with student motivation. Most Americans who teach ordinary classes in Germany find average German students somewhat less motivated than their dues-paying American counterparts.
Andrew Hammel
· 6 min read
Straight to Hell: Millenarianism and the Green New Deal
With the Green New Deal, secular apocalyptic ideas have entered the mainstream of American politics. Millenarian thinking has always been present in the US, but it was avowedly religious.
David Adler
· 11 min read
Rethinking Abortion Advocacy
Arbitrary doesn’t mean random and it doesn’t mean cruel.
Coleman Hughes
· 8 min read