A Night Out with a Muslim and an Atheist
What is Islam and how does it differ from Islamism? And is this a hard and fast distinction for the majority of Muslims?
Andy Ngo
· 5 min read
What Can We Learn from Dictators' Literature?
Dictators, of course, are terrible people. They also tend to be terrible writers. Yet many tyrants have entertained the illusion that they were literary super geniuses. Mein Kampf and Quotations from Chairman Mao (aka The Little Red Book) are the best-known works in the dictatorial canon, but they represent only
Daniel Kalder
· 10 min read
Video Games and the Male Meaning of Life
Research indicated that improved technological entertainment options, primarily video games, are responsible for between 20 and 33 percent of reduced work hours.
Andrew Yang
· 9 min read
Quillette Podcast 6 — Coleman Hughes on Progressive Orthodoxy in the Ivy League
Listen onSpotify Canadian editor Jonathan Kay talks to Coleman Hughes, Quillette columnist and Columbia University student, about being out of step with the prevailing orthodoxy at an Ivy League college, classical liberalism and playing in Rihanna’s backup band in 2016.
Quillette
· 1 min read
I Now Understand How Nelson Mandela Felt
So what are we to make of my ban? The only sensible conclusion is that Twitter is run by a coterie of crypto-fascists.
Titania McGrath
· 3 min read
The Demise of Gawker — Interview with Ryan Holiday
Ryan Holiday’s book 'Conspiracy' tells the story of Peter Thiel’s decade-long campaign against Gawker Media.
Stephen Elliott
· 16 min read
Inside a Google Summit on Diversity and Inclusion
Sadly, it doesn’t seem Google has learned much since James Damore’s firing.
Joseph Klein
· 6 min read
Not All Dead White Men — A Review
How many people are in this “community”? What power do they enjoy? What is the extent of their influence?
Jaspreet Singh Boparai
· 23 min read
Sad Radicals
As radicals, we lived in what I call a paradigm of suspicion, one of the malignant ideas that emerge as a result of intellectual in-breeding.
Conor Barnes
· 10 min read
Progressive Creationism — A Review of A Dangerous Idea
“In fact, with the rise of the Offense Culture, the Left’s attacks on science have become more intense. Expect more of them.”
Toby Young
· 11 min read
What Does the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Mean Today?
The UDHR’s crucial claim is that the question of man’s nature is not merely academic or philosophical. It has moral consequences.
Alexandra Hudson
· 15 min read
A Surfeit of Empathy and an Absence of Compassion
As a parent of an ROGD teen, it has been so disheartening to see so few mainstream sources publishing balanced views on this topic. We have glowing “protransition” pieces in the left-wing press, and (often) angry, and even anti-trans pieces in the right-wing or religious press. These articles are just
Samuel Veissière
· 7 min read
Orwell and the Anti-Totalitarian Left in the Age of Trump
No matter how bitterly they attack one another, they still share many of the same principles and enemies—a fact that should be just as clear to them today as it was a few years ago.
Matt Johnson
· 16 min read
What Happened When We Tried to Debate Immigration
Unless we find a way of side-stepping the extremes and debating these issues in an evidence-led, analytical way then the moderate.
Matthew Goodwin, Eric Kaufmann
· 17 min read
Headline Rhymes
Graham Verdon
· 1 min read