All About Dave
The tragic rise of a former comic, liberal, and Angeleno.
Ross Anderson
· 33 min read
Podcast #204: Discovering Your Inner ‘Demisexual’
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to Phoebe Maltz Bovy and Kat Rosenfield of Feminine Chaos, about why young straight women are inventing new (and dubious) queer subcategories. Links discussed in this episode: Feminine Chaos: I Am the Very Model of a Modern Demisexual Feminine Chaos: Your Privilege Is Showing,
Quillette
· 1 min read
Saving Twitter—A Roundtable
Elon Musk’s controversial takeover of Twitter has led many commentators to wonder if the platform can be improved by its new owner. In this roundtable, three writers offer their thoughts and suggestions.
Bo Winegard, Jim Rutt, and Cody Moser
· 17 min read
Conservatism in an Era Of Populist Revolt
Right-wing radicals are being punished by voters because they have discarded the foundational principles of conservative philosophy.
Bo Winegard
· 11 min read
At Canada’s National Gallery, Ideological Enforcers Are Pushing Out Veteran Curators
Preaching the gospel of Indigenization and decolonization, administrators are overruling their own art experts.
Paul Gessell
· 20 min read
In Defence of Scientific Integrity and Due Process
I have known Klaus Fiedler for over forty years, and he is one of the most fair-minded and decent scientists I have ever met.
Joseph Paul Forgas
· 5 min read
A Rush to Judgement in Psychological Science
In its panicked dismissal of Klaus Fiedler, the APS has failed to deliver procedural justice
The Quillette Editorial Board
· 7 min read
The Philadelphia Experiments
How an enterprising doctor, an elite university, and negligent public officials turned a city prison system into the largest human research factory in America.
Allen M. Hornblum
· 26 min read
It’s Time the Green Movement Stopped Demonizing Nuclear
The pro-nuclear movement is gaining traction despite vocal opposition
Zion Lights
· 13 min read
How Do They Know This?
An informative and apolitical new book reminds us that statistics are not always what they seem.
Christopher J. Snowdon
· 6 min read
Fukuyama’s Victory
Liberal democracy has again proved itself capable of overcoming its internal challenges and contradictions.
Matt Johnson
· 22 min read
Brute Physical Facts and Social Construction
The progressive and the traditionalist are equally detached from the underlying reality as currently described by science.
Vinod Goel
· 12 min read
At Last, Mainstream Journalists Are Starting to Report the Truth About Youth Gender Clinics
The New York Times and Guardian are the latest progressive institutions to scrutinize the safety of so-called ‘gender-affirming’ medical interventions.
Bernard Lane
· 9 min read