Taking on the Offendotrons: a review of Russell Blackford's 'The Tyranny of Opinion'
I could bang on about offendotrons every week and have to resist the impulse.
Helen Dale
· 15 min read
Headline Rhymes
Graham Verdon
· 1 min read
How Ideologues Captured the Canadian Publishing Industry
Publishing is not a career one chooses for the money.
Tara Nykyforiak
· 12 min read
Reading ‘Lolita’ in the West
The star of Lolita is not Lolita herself, but Humbert Humbert, who hides his obsession with adolescent girls under a mask of tweedy old-world erudition.
Zachary Snowdon Smith
· 9 min read
The Unconstrained Vision of David Deutsch
Sowell distinguishes between the unconstrained vision and the constrained vision.
Clovis Roussy
· 10 min read
The Right Needs To Grow Up On Environmentalism
All of us hope to enjoy our lives, of course, but much of what we do to help our fellow men, our children, and our children’s children involves sacrificing our immediate enjoyment for the sake of their interests.
Ben Sixsmith
· 10 min read
How Real Is Systemic Racism Today?
The beauty of “systemic racism” is its air of permanence.
John Staddon
· 17 min read
The White Privilege of Being Black
The sad reality is that Martin had no choice but to burble bromides if she wished to remain a member of her progressive intellectual clique.
Allen Farrington
· 7 min read
The Dangers of Defining Deviancy Up
The idea of defining deviancy down has attracted renewed attention from commentators in the Trump era.
Ilana Redstone
· 7 min read
Quillette Podcast 12 - Speeches by Claire Lehmann, Jamie Kilstein, Michael Shermer, Jonathan Kay, Christina Hoff Sommers and Toby Young
Listen onSpotify Listen to highlights from the speeches made at Quillette‘s party in Toronto by Quillette founder Claire Lehmann, stand-up comic Jamie Kilstein, Skeptic editor Michael Shermer, Quillette‘s Canadian editor Jonathan Kay, author and philosopher Christina Hoff Sommers and Quillette‘s associate editor Toby Young. Thanks to
Quillette, Claire Lehmann
· 1 min read
How My Toxic Stoicism Helped Me Cope with Brain Cancer
One of my sisters commented that I was so calm she thought the doctors must have given me a Valium.
Jonathan Church
· 12 min read
Thank You, APA
Turns out, the traditional masculinity that drives many of us men to be confident, assertive, adventurous, stoic, and willing to take risks for our goals, the people we love, and sometimes even complete strangers are bad for us and society.
Clay Routledge
· 7 min read
How to Build a Bed
According to a local historian the house was probably occupied by freed slaves, possibly even an interracial couple. By 1840 standards New Orleans was a progressive place.
Stephen Elliott
· 10 min read
Anatomist of Racial Inequality: An Interview with Glenn Loury
Loury has taught at Brown University for over a decade, an institution where pleas for American patriotism are likely to be summarily dismissed. So why does he insist on making them?
Christian Alejandro Gonzalez
· 14 min read
Quand le 'Bye Bye' Éloigne les Deux Solitudes
Ils y ont vu un sketch qui tournait en ridicule le fait que le premier ministre avait lui-même folklorisé, voire caricaturé les coutumes indiennes lors de son périple. Alors que certains anglophones y ont plutôt vu une moquerie…de la communauté indienne.
François Cardinal
· 7 min read