Hope, Trust, and Religious Faith
In the 1990s, religious Americans embraced science’s re-definition of spirituality. They would be unwise to repeat this mistake.
Ronald W. Dworkin
· 11 min read
A World Without Affirmative Action
We need creative thinking and real problem solving to address inequality in education.
Harvey Silverglate
· 6 min read
Experiences with Suicide
Coping with a uniquely painful kind of bereavement.
Art Kusserow
· 9 min read
The Inner Life of Transcendent Genius
In ‘The Philosophy of Modern Song,’ Dylan contemplates himself and the art form of which he is the acknowledged master.
Benjamin Kerstein
· 13 min read
A Mob Stormed a Feminist Event at McGill Law School—in Defence of Gender Justice, of Course
Intended as an expression of trans rights, the fracas instead illustrated why many LGB feminists want to escape their ‘forced teaming’ with trans activists.
Jonathan Kay
· 8 min read
A Report From the Stanford Academic Freedom Conference
The urgency of our mission was reflected in the list of attendees—many of whom had been laid off, mobbed, or ostracized because of their research.
Elizabeth Weiss
· 14 min read
Fables of the Deconstruction
Rejection may sting. But it’s not the same as being ripped off.
George Case
· 7 min read
More Than Just a Social Construct
The fiction that race has no biological basis is more likely to exacerbate health disparities than narrow them.
Robert J. Morris
· 9 min read
A Puritanical Assault on the English Language
Social justice zealots think they can save the world by inventing absurd new ways to describe it.
Andrew Doyle
· 19 min read
Democracy’s Trenches
The idea that the war in Ukraine is not our business is seductive but dangerously mistaken.
John Lloyd
· 11 min read
Podcast #205: From Golden Girls Super-fan to Right-Wing Culture Warrior: The Strange Journey of Dave Rubin
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to writer Ross Anderson about the Rubin Report’s increasingly conservative (and angry) star host. Anderson’s Quillette profile of Rubin was published last month under the title, All About Dave. "Unfortunately, Rubin, like most of us, is slow to acknowledge the unreliability
Quillette
· 1 min read
Stuck in the Middle (of Academia)
Academia is a mess, but there is still hope.
Christopher J. Ferguson
· 12 min read
Rebalancing the Gender Narrative
Richard Reeves’s new book is a valuable contribution to a gender debate stuck on outdated axioms.
Ari David Blaff
· 7 min read
Politics and the English Language, 2023
The continued relevance of George Orwell’s landmark 1946 essay.
George Case
· 8 min read
On Conservative Socialism
Far from being a phantom in the imaginations of a handful of writers and scholars, conservative socialism is a real phenomenon.
Seamus Flaherty
· 16 min read