Will They Make Coffee at Pret?
When a BBC Question Time audience member asked “Who will make our coffee in Pret?”
Derek Hopper
· 5 min read
Browsing the Tate Bookshop
The Tate Britain shop is large and there are multiple, unimpeachable shelves of books grouped into themes such as technique, art history.
Michael Clegg
· 7 min read
Laci Green, the Matrix, and the Future of Free Speech
“This is a pretty big concern of mine, I’ve felt this way for a long time, it affects my work, it affects the way I can interact with people, the things I can talk about, the people I can talk to.”
Michael Aaron
· 7 min read
Stop Using the Term "Gender"
From that perspective, it might make sense to co-opt “gender” to refer to human sexual phenotypic diversity.
Michael McConkey
· 8 min read
Cultural Appropriation Isn't Real
Being imaginative is more important for a writer than being from the “right” ethnic background or having the “right” experience.
Helen Dale
· 7 min read
A Line in the Sand in Academic Philosophy
Tuvel was criticized for not citing enough black or transgender scholars. Such a complaint could be leveled at virtually any philosophy paper.
Oliver Traldi
· 10 min read
A Hundred Years of Communism
Ben Sixsmith
· 7 min read
Emmanuel Macron Beats Marine Le Pen to Win the French Election
Between the rounds, Le Pen seemed to be nibbling away at Macron’s lead – not by much, but by enough to cause some butterflies among her opponents.
Paul Smith
· 4 min read
I've Found a Place That Makes Me Want to Swallow Its Rhetoric Whole
Sadie insisted, apropos of nothing, that she was “really a radical feminist.”
Michael Rectenwald
· 17 min read
What Eastern Bloc Dissidents Can Teach Us About Living in Truth
Living in truth doesn’t mean speaking out unthinkingly on every issue. It matters not just what we say, but how we say it.
Philip Boobbyer
· 5 min read
Help Support Our Fundraising Goal
We would like to increase our funding to be able to pay all of our contributors and support the editors to pursue the highest standards of editorial oversight they can.
Quillette
· 2 min read
Time to Retire the Political Spectrum
“If the political spectrum is largely meaningless and causes so much confusion, why does nearly everyone buy into it?”
Hyrum Lewis
· 13 min read
Creationism by Another Name
Creationism is the belief that a superior being, unbound by the laws of nature, created the universe.
Ferran Suay
· 4 min read
It's Ever Better Not to Know
It seems that gaining more knowledge, even on topics where that knowledge could be damaging in the short term, is the preferable approach.
Brian Boutwell, Bo Winegard, Jonathan Anomaly
· 7 min read
It's Not Important to Defund Identity Culture
If taxpayers from both the Right and the Left refuse to fund identity culture, what exactly will remain of the arts?
Reilly Smethurst
· 7 min read