Quillette (Page 83)

The Metaverse: Science Fiction or Reality?

We tend to overestimate a technology’s abilities in the near term, and massively underestimate what it can do in the long term.

Randall Mayes

14 Jul 2022 · 9 min read

The Classically Greek Roots of Civilizational Self-Doubt

The Greeks were the first of all peoples to look at themselves in the mirror.

Benedict Beckeld

13 Jul 2022 · 10 min read

How Automatic Gender ‘Affirmation’ Hurts Girls and Women

We’ve lost sight of a basic feminist insight: To be gender ‘non-conforming‘ isn’t unusual. It’s perfectly normal.

Holly Lawford-Smith

13 Jul 2022 · 12 min read

What Is the Point of Tenure?—A Roundtable

Tenure creates a dual world where some professors enjoy more freedom than others.

Bo Winegard, Charles Negy, and Alexander Riley

12 Jul 2022 · 13 min read

California's Energy War on the Poor

California continues to implement policies on energy, housing, and transportation that are anti-poor and anti-working class.

Robert Bryce

11 Jul 2022 · 11 min read

Céline, Literary Antichrist

If we demand that our artists be angels, we will not have any art left to appreciate.

RJ Smith

11 Jul 2022 · 9 min read

The Man Who Stood Up to the CCP

Thanks to Shinzo Abe, Xi Jinping now has a clear view of the future.

Aaron Sarin

9 Jul 2022 · 5 min read

Voters and Quotas: Crunch Time for Chile’s Millennial Revolutionaries

The proposal for a radical identitarian constitution has set off a popular counterrevolution in the run-up to a fateful referendum on September 4th.

Rasmus Sonderriis

8 Jul 2022 · 17 min read

Children of the Counter-Revolution

Sexual liberty reconsidered.

Cathy Young

8 Jul 2022 · 16 min read

Boris Beheaded

From restoration to regicide.

Robin Ashenden

8 Jul 2022 · 9 min read

An Australian Perspective on Abortion

The closest example of a counterfactual to Roe v. Wade is Australia, where there is a federal system with no unifying law or ruling concerning abortion.

Dara Macdonald

8 Jul 2022 · 11 min read

Troubadour at War

Leonard Cohen’s visit to Israel in its darkest hour.

Ari David Blaff

7 Jul 2022 · 8 min read

Podcast #192: James Kirchick on ‘Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington’

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to author James Kirchick about the closeted lives of gay men living and working in America’s capital during the Cold War.

Quillette

6 Jul 2022 · 1 min read

Dear Americans: Your Politics Don’t Have to Be This Toxic

America’s narrowing two-party system is poisoning the greatest democracy in the world.

Stephan Jensen

6 Jul 2022 · 18 min read