The Blank Slateism of the Right
Ben Sixsmith
· 5 min read
The BuzzFeed Fiasco Shows Us Why Trust in Institutions Is Dying
If this information about an American leader were true, it would be frankly unprecedented. At the same time, the information is also extremely suspect.
Sumantra Maitra
· 6 min read
Tyranny of the Ethnography — How Lived Experience Corrupts the Social Sciences
When books are routinely used as tools of indoctrination in the regime of liberal pedagogy, when will students ever hear the other side of the story?
Mazelit Airaksinen
· 6 min read
How Will History Remember Obama?
Mostly, however, it was just disappointment. In both race relations and foreign relations, Obama unleashed forces, either deliberately or carelessly, which were beyond his control.
Sumantra Maitra
· 6 min read
Monks in High Towers — A Plea to Our Fellow Academics
We should remember that the creation of knowledge is generally a positive sum game. When practitioners in one field make progress and gain insight, all fields stand to benefit.
Jonathan Anomaly, Brian Boutwell
· 11 min read
Students, Sex, Social Media, and Why the Steven Galloway Affair Is So Murky
There’s a solution, but it’s not one that most feminists want to hear.
Irene Ogrizek
· 6 min read
Free Speech and Terrorism — Whatever You Do, Don't Mention Islam
Freedom of religion also means freedom from religion; free (critical) speech about religion has the effect of freeing people from religion.
Jeffrey Tayler
· 8 min read
Pundits Are Blind to the Grassroots of Political Change
The fit about Farage resigning should in a circular kind of way remind us why the Brexit vote was so important symbolically.
Gearóid Murphy
· 3 min read
Rehabilitating Feminism
We must use these distinctions with care. Labels are most effective when used as a scalpel, not a hammer. Feminologists should not be ridiculed or insulted, but convinced.
Jacob Little
· 14 min read
The University as a Total Institution
To all who value academic freedom, tolerance, and human dignity, weaponized diversity should be as abhorrent as the Total University it supports.
John Paul Wright
· 14 min read
Your Guide to Blaming Russia for Everything
It’s time to wake up and smell the dark-roast Kremlin coffee. I’m talking dark-roast as in a steaming cup of pitch-black, irredeemable evil splashed in your face right after you smell it.
Caleb Bridgeman
· 5 min read
Help Us Build Our Platform for Free Thought
An open-minded readership has found Quillette and we are grateful to you for your loyalty and feedback.
Claire Lehmann
· 2 min read
In Praise of Ignorance
To have a chance at solving our problems we must not condemn each other for openly stating our ignorance.
Simon Cullen
· 5 min read
No, the Syrian Civil War Is Not like Jews Fleeing Nazi Persecution
If one genuinely cares about the civilians who are suffering, they would want to stop the war at any cost, rather than fan the flames further.
Sumantra Maitra
· 6 min read
Are the Gender Wars Just Getting Started?
To get an idea of what’s in store for us next, Australians would do well to look at the debate over gender identity in Canada, where things have gotten, shall we say, mind-bogglingly odd.
Timothy Cootes
· 5 min read