Bitterness and Inequality—A Reply to Matt McManus
Equality of opportunity is not enough, according to Rawls, and a deeper conception of fairness would entail providing everyone with equal prospects of success.
'The Great Scattering': How Identity Panic Took Root in the Void Once Occupied by Family Life
The panic over identity, in short, is being driven by the fact that the human animal has been selected for familial forms of socialization that for many people no longer exist.
The Drayton Icon and Intellectual Vice
Nevertheless, Drayton’s diatribe does reveal something important—not much about me, something about him, but mostly about the vices that fester in certain reaches of our universities, which serve to undermine rational dialogue and public norms of liberal civility.
Socialization Isn't Responsible for Greater Male Violence
The evidence that men are more violent and more criminal than women is overwhelming, and yet it doesn’t imply that all men are violent, deserve to be incarcerated, or are undeserving of our sympathy or compassion if they are imprisoned.
For Students Who Grew Up Poor, An Elite Campus Can Seem Like a Sea of Wealth and Snobbery
The rich kids at Gulliver, those who drove Range Rovers and boasted of extravagant vacations, were not black. But at Amherst, many of my new wealthy classmates were.
PODCAST 50: Nadim Kobeissi Discusses Facebook's Coming Cryptocurrency
Listen onSpotify Nadim Kobeissi, a professor at NYU and director of a cryptography consulting firm, tells Jonathan Kay about the risks posed by Libra, Facebook’s new cryptocurrency. Professor Kobeissi recently wrote about Libra for Quillette. Image: Courtesy of Symbolic Software.
Why White Privilege Is Wrong—Part 1
In fact, white privilege condenses the complexities of group outcomes into a simple narrative that does not help anyone.
Facebook Already Controls Our Information. Don’t Let It Control Our Commerce
But while other cryptocurrencies can serve to increase our personal freedom and privacy, Libra, which is scheduled for launch in 2020, likely would have the opposite effect.
I’m a Feminist Mother. But I Don’t Need a ‘Feminist Birth’
A birth away from hospital can be seen as a feminist act of resistance. But it’s not a form of resistance I want to join.
Are Political Disagreements Real Disagreements?
If partisanship is shaping our perceptions of reality, then democratic decision-making becomes incredibly difficult.
Gamers are the Easy—But Wrong—Target After Mass Violence
When members of other communities are involved in mass violence, we rightfully are cautioned not to reflexively blame the community as a whole, and gaming should get the same treatment.
How the Hong Kong Protestors’ Tactical Brilliance Backed Beijing into a Corner
Just as they are doing with seemingly every obstacle in their way, Hong Kong protesters innovated around the need for a strong leader.
Free Speech Matters, Even When it’s Not Protected by the First Amendment
As chilling effects go, “I would speak out, but I don’t want to risk going to jail” is not all that different from “I would speak out, but I don’t want to risk losing my friends and my livelihood.”
Once Upon a Time...Film Critics Became Joyless—A Review
Tarantino is quintessentially American. He lets us linger and watch Tate in all her Technicolor radiance. He lets us love her. What’s more, he lets her watch and love herself.
The Campaign to Destroy Equal Voice
The conflict between management and the young staffers at Equal Voice is not only an ideological divide, but a generational one, and the younger cohort employs a particularly dramatic lexicon.