The Fog of Youth: The Cornell Student Takeover, 50 Years On
The ethical shortcomings of the 1969 Cornell student rebellion, which appear so glaring today, were anything but clear to us radical activists at the time.
What Defenders and Critics Get Wrong about the 'Marketplace of Ideas'
The motif of the marketplace of ideas, Stanley argues, only works with descriptive speech.
Quillette Podcast 39 – Coleman Hughes on His Reparations Testimony
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How Free Speech Dies Online
Political speech is the most important category of speech and it is the first category of speech authoritarians will seek to constrain as they consolidate power.
The Inner Nature of Freedom
The primarily political differences, therefore, emerge over how best to realize freedom, and of course, what freedom itself means.
Sedentary Revolutionaries: Two Academics Who Joined the Nazi Party
No private personal ambition is involved; he simply wishes to obey a sovereign whose legitimacy he will not question.
Ideology and Facts Collide at Oberlin College
The recently concluded libel trial involving Oberlin College offered a demonstration of this phenomenon on the part of both the defendants and much of the media covering the case.
The End of an Era—A Feminist Firebrand Looks Back
As global violence against women gained horrendous momentum, many Western feminists became increasingly afraid to criticize that violence lest they be condemned as colonialists and racists.
How a Feminist Prophet Became an Apostate—An Interview with Dr Phyllis Chesler
Dr Phyllis Chesler has never been afraid to be unpopular.
My Testimony on Reparations
Racism is a bloody stain on this country’s history, and I consider our failure to pay reparations directly to freed slaves after the Civil War to be one of the greatest injustices ever perpetrated by the U.S. government.
Quillette Podcast 38 – Jonah Goldberg and Aaron Siberium on the conservative themes of Avengers: Endgame
Listen onSpotify Toby Young discusses the conservative manifesto buried just beneath the surface of Avengers: Endgame with Jonah Goldberg and Aaron Siberium. Aaron wrote an essay recently about the final instalment of the Avengers saga for Quillette.
What Do the Oligarchs Have in Mind for Us?
What has not been discussed nearly as much is the end game of the oligarchs.
Pop Fiction's Rich History of #MeToo Drama
Lately, the very serious people who write about TV and film and books for publications such as the New Yorker and the New York Times have been tripping over themselves to heap praise on highbrow novelists, filmmakers, and screenwriters who have used their platforms to tackle issues such as rape
A Black Eye for the Columbia Journalism Review
Essays attacking the left- or right-wing bias of this or that media outlet are, of course, old hat in my business.