Podcast #208: Fair Play for Female Athletes—Then and Now Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to former U.S. Olympic team rower Mary O’Connor about her 1970s-era fight against sports sexism—and today’s battle to keep male bodies out of women’s rowing. Quillette 27 Feb 2023 · 1 min read
The Sad Spectacle of ‘Drag Queen Story Hour’ No, the female impersonators reading stories to children aren’t ‘groomers.’ They’re just needy gay men desperate for validation from straight society. Sky Gilbert 26 Feb 2023 · 11 min read
The Ukrainian Year Ukraine has been instrumental in restoring a focus on what matters to the people and elected leaders of the West. Jesse Inman 26 Feb 2023 · 5 min read
The Overregulation of Science Overly burdensome rules dampen enthusiasm for research and delay scientific progress. Evan D Morris 24 Feb 2023 · 11 min read
A Conspiracy Theory of Connotations The obsessive policing of language in the name of progress relies on magical thinking. Oliver Traldi 24 Feb 2023 · 7 min read
Heidegger’s Downfall Richard Wolin’s reappraisal of Martin Heidegger offers both original contributions and a synthesis of critical scholarship. The result is a timely work of enduring importance. Jeffrey Herf 22 Feb 2023 · 18 min read
Artificially Intelligent Offense? ChatGPT has been programmed to avoid giving accurate information if it may cause offense. Lawrence M. Krauss 21 Feb 2023 · 12 min read
Left or Right, Politicians Shouldn’t Be Telling Academics What They’re Allowed to Teach The campaign to ban Critical Race Theory and other ‘woke’ dogmas channels the same illiberal spirit that conservatives claim to oppose. Michael Shermer 21 Feb 2023 · 7 min read
Roald Dahl and the Ethics of Art The urge to censor is based on a misunderstanding of what makes literature valuable. Iona Italia 21 Feb 2023 · 11 min read
The Liberal Internationalist A fine new book argues that the contemporary Left could learn a lot from the life and work of the late polemicist Christopher Hitchens. Michael J. Totten 20 Feb 2023 · 19 min read
Aristotle (and the Stoics): An Interview with John Sellars A new book by John Sellars explores the life’s work and extraordinary legacy of the man he has provocatively called “the single most important human being ever to have lived.” Riley Moore 19 Feb 2023 · 20 min read
A Demagogue Departs The SNP has identified England and the English political class—especially the governing Conservative Party—as hostile forces. John Lloyd 18 Feb 2023 · 7 min read
Ukraine’s Verdun It is not just Western officials who worry that Zelensky’s determination to defend Bakhmut at all costs will cripple his army’s effectiveness. Robert Zaretsky 17 Feb 2023 · 5 min read
The Ethos of Female Prisons A philosopher breaks down the debate over how to treat male criminals who self-identity as women. Holly Lawford-Smith 16 Feb 2023 · 12 min read
