PODCAST 53: Gay Rights Activist Shane Windmeyer on his Changing Attitude to Chick-Fil-A
Quillette, Jonathan Kay
· 1 min read
Europe’s Virtues Will Be Its Undoing
Ever since, all of Europe—the East as well as the West—has carried the burden of Nazi guilt, as others would have us bear the guilt of North American slavery and Jim Crow.
Pascal Bruckner
· 25 min read
There is No ‘Gay Gene,’ but Sexuality is Affected by Many Genes of Small Effect
Day by day, as genetic science advances, it becomes ever clearer that all psychological traits are genetically influenced.
Jerry Barnett
· 4 min read
Greece: Tensions Rise Again As Migrant Crisis Escalates
Migration in the Mediterranean has increased in recent weeks to the highest level since the EU-Turkey deal in March, 2016, and Greece is back to being the main entry point for hopeful migrants.
Nektaria Stamouli
· 6 min read
William Peter Blatty's Counter-Countercultural Parable
In her new book Primal Screams: How the Sexual Revolution Created Identity Politics (excerpted in Quillette on August 27), essayist and cultural critic Mary Eberstadt documents just how damaging the sexual revolution of the 1960s, and its normalization of divorce in particular, has been to America’s children. She mentions
Kevin Mims
· 13 min read
Anti-Pornography Campaigners' Pseudo-Scientific Treadmill
The authors are arguably on firmer ground when discussing the health and well-being of those who perform in pornography.
Christopher J. Ferguson
· 6 min read
The Real Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
The TSA is an agency of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security that was created as a response to the 9/11 attacks to make sure nothing like that ever happens again.
A Kelleher
· 13 min read
In Praise of Renoir's Male Gaze
Renoir’s nudes are the evidence of a tirelessly hopeful soul struggling against the dingy reality of the modern world, with its modern industry and its modern warfare, that turns all human flesh into disposable objects, without joy or humanity.
Marilyn Simon
· 8 min read
War at the Tip of a Rhino Horn
What the Rangers do they do on behalf of all of us—for every rhino loss is a global loss.
Nathan Edmondson
· 9 min read
How David Graeber Cancelled a Colleague
At the height of the #MeToo scandal in 2018, when dozens of actresses were coming forward with sordid testimonies about Harvey Weinstein’s sexual predation, a much more obscure scandal was unfolding around an academic journal involving the anthropologist David Graeber. The journal—HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory—was imploding
Claire Lehmann
· 15 min read
The Political Excommunication of Erin Weir Betrays the Face of Modern Political Cowardice
Under the Canadian political system, party leaders are free to unilaterally block candidates, no matter the views of voters or the rank-and-file.
Eric Cline
· 15 min read
David Gelernter is Wrong About Ditching Darwin
The last lesson of Gelernter’s piece is that while we shouldn’t judge someone’s arguments by their credentials alone, neither should we give unwarranted credence to those who have impressive credentials, particularly when they pronounce on a field in which they lack expertise.
Jerry A. Coyne
· 11 min read
The Return to Archaic Forms of Power—An Interview with Marianne Stidsen
A basic principle of Western societies – in addition to the fact that all people are born free and equal – is openness to criticism.
Paulina Neuding
· 7 min read
A Flawed Defense of Safe Spaces in the New York Times
Ironically, what is really needed is the restoration of the entire college campus as a safe space for people of all perspectives.
James Huffman
· 4 min read
In Defence of the Past
Whether it is because we got things wrong or because we got them right, the past is our servant, the key to a richer future and higher states of consciousness.
RJ Smith
· 6 min read