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Graham Verdon
· 1 min read
Motivated Reasoning Is Disfiguring Social Science
The bottom line is that professional guilds such as the APA and AAP have a demonstrable track record of unreliability when speaking on matters of science.
Christopher J. Ferguson
· 8 min read
We Can Put an End to State Bidding Wars
Amazon would still have paid tax revenue, and, more likely than not, other tech startups would have followed, growing the taxable population even further.
Christopher Sabaitis
· 6 min read
Deepfakes and the Threat to Privacy and Truth
In an age of heated polarization of it will be difficult for politicians to convince their opponents that damaging videos are in fact deepfakes.
Ben Sixsmith
· 6 min read
Hate Crime Hoaxes Are More Common Than You Think
Victimhood culture gives rise to hate crime hoaxes, then, because it makes them easier to pull off for the same reasons it makes them more lucrative.
Bradley Campbell and Jason Manning, Bradley Campbell
· 7 min read
What My Days as a Marxist Taught Me About Modern Political Cults
Parsing these texts becomes an obsession for generations of true believers. The rapture, that bloody apocalyptic end of days, is replaced with revolution.
C.K. Ryan
· 9 min read
Quillette Podcast 18 – Former New York public high school teacher Mary Hudson on why the system lets down disadvantaged students
Listen onSpotify Quillette‘s Jonathan Kay talks to Mary Hudson, a former teacher in New York’s public high school system, about how disadvantaged students are being let down by school leaders and administrators who are afraid to discipline unruly children for fear of being accused of racism. This conversation
Quillette
· 1 min read
What’s Happening to Technological Progress?
We’re blinded by incremental progress in electronic gadgets of marginal utility—new smartphones, larger monitors, and more powerful computers.
Hans Peter Dietz
· 9 min read
Lessons From a Recovering Identity Warrior
I left identity politics activism — and learned hard lessons about groupthink, moral certainty, and what happens when ideology becomes your whole identity.
Maziar Ghaderi
· 7 min read
I Know what Intersectionality Is, and I Wish it Were Less Important
Half of the twentieth century produced emancipation movements that attained stunning gains for women, racial and ethnic minorities, and gays and lesbians.
Nicholas Wolfinger
· 6 min read
Women Needed a Magazine that Doesn't Lie to Them. So I Started One
Women’s publications have tried to convince women they can be just like men, instead of celebrating femininity and what makes women wonderfully unique.
Brittany Martinez
· 6 min read
What Joan Didion Foretold About Campaign Socialism and Popularity
This is suspiciously like the argument often used by radical progressives after staking their claims in the moral high ground.
Joe Hefferon
· 7 min read
Quillette Podcast 17 – Former Facebook engineer Brian Amerige on the company's ambivalence towards free speech
Listen onSpotify Quillette‘s Jonathan Kay talks to Brian Amerige, a former software engineer at Facebook, about the company’s content moderation policy and why it is making a mistake in trying to prohibit hate speech.
Quillette
· 1 min read
Alternative, Scientifically-Literate Guidelines for Psychological Practice with Boys and Men
From genes to hormones to neurotransmitters, plays a role in shaping men’s masculine self-expression is, to say the least, a scientifically untenable position.
Gregory Gorelik
· 12 min read
ISIS Bride Should Be Judged for What She Did, Not Who She Is
The two processes may begin similarly, but in grooming gangs emotional manipulation very quickly progresses to rape, torture, and threats of murder.
Louise Perry
· 8 min read