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Graham Verdon
· 1 min read
When Children Protest, Adults Should Tell them the Truth
The climate debate is a complicated one. It requires the careful weighing of interests and trade-offs, not the uncompromising fanaticism of an absolutist.
Kathrine Jebsen Moore
· 8 min read
Towards a Worker's Bill of Rights
This article proposes an outline of what such a measure might look like in order to provide a starting point for discussions.
Gideon Scopes
· 9 min read
Quillette Podcast 22 – Liberal Muslim Irshad Manji discusses her new book Don't Label Me
Listen onSpotify Jonathan Kay talks to Irshad Manji, a gay, progressive Muslim, about her new book Don’t Label Me in which she urges all sides in the culture wars to listen more carefully to each other. She also reflects on the journey she’s been on, from an aggressive
Quillette, Irshad Manji
· 1 min read
The Attractions of the Clan—An Interview with Mark Weiner
My concern is that the left here is closing itself off, and that its resistance to thinking about cultural differences is a progressive parallel to right-wing climate change denial and that it could eventually eat it intellectually from inside.
Paulina Neuding and Mark S. Weiner
· 13 min read
An Interview With Lisa Littman, Who Coined the Term ‘Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria’
This research explores, through the reports of parents, a phenomenon whereby teens and young adults who did not exhibit childhood signs of gender issues appeared to suddenly identify as transgender.
Jonathan Kay
· 18 min read
The Mismeasurements of Stephen Jay Gould
Gould believed this bias was rampant in particular scholarly fields, and the most prominent target for his criticism in The Mismeasure of Man was the study of intelligence, especially IQ testing and the genetics of mental ability.
Russell T. Warne
· 11 min read
How a Fake Scandal Took Down a Brazilian Fashion Editor
Addressing Brazil’s legacy of racism is surely one of my country’s most urgent moral priorities.
Raphael Tsavkko Garcia
· 7 min read
Reparations and Ta-Nehisi Coates's Pyrrhic Victory
At bottom, the reparations debate is a debate about the relationship between history and ethics, between the past and the Good.
Coleman Hughes
· 14 min read
News, Pre-News, Fake News, and Statistics
For those of us engaged in showing young people how the media are supposed to work, there is no escaping the sturm und drang over fake news.
Steve Salerno
· 11 min read
Why We Should Read Marx
Marx was an acute social analyst whose insights have appeared in novel places. Even conservative and pro-capitalist figures—from Max Weber to Joseph Schumpeter—have at times grudgingly conceded the accuracy of his analysis on many points of importance.
Matt McManus
· 10 min read
After Christchurch, Remember the Victims, But Resist the Urge to Blame
The best we can do in the short-term is to return again and again to the better angels of our nature and try to keep these horrific events in perspective.
Claire Lehmann
· 5 min read
The Environment Is too Important to Leave to Environmentalists
We know enough to understand that we should be taking serious action. The fact that the only groups advocating action at the moment are demanding questionable strategies doesn’t change that.
Mallen Baker
· 13 min read
Old Masters Remix: A review of 'Life Death Rebirth', the Michaelangelo/Bill Viola exhibition at the Royal Academy
There is far more expression to be found in the Easter Island heads, than there is here.
Jacob Willer
· 12 min read
What If Ayn Rand Was Right About Entrepreneurs and Inequality?
Rand and her largely philosophical economic views have been consigned to history as an interesting relic of sorts—a compelling, well-articulated fantasy that has no basis in reality.
Cameron Hendy
· 8 min read