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The Fight Over What Children Learn

The model of life they imagine is based on the myth of an all-purpose education designed by experts to allow every child to choose any future they like.

Moshe Krakowski

29 Jan 2022 · 7 min read

‘As We See It’ and the Changing Discussion About Autism

The show frankly acknowledges issues frequently haunting persons on the autism spectrum.

Jonathan Mitchell

28 Jan 2022 · 6 min read

This Is About More Than Ukraine

In the early days of World War Two, George Orwell published a marvelous essay entitled “England Your England.” With the Luftwaffe in the skies above London laying waste to the city, Orwell observed a peculiarly contemptible trait of the English intelligentsia. In a word, this portion of the national elite

Brian Stewart

28 Jan 2022 · 6 min read

Why Environmentalists Pose a Bigger Obstacle to Effective Climate Policy than Denialists

The opposition to nuclear energy is not the only way in which mainstream environmentalists have, with the best of intentions, hurt the cause of climate action.

Maarten Boudry

27 Jan 2022 · 10 min read

Next Year in Simla: Thirty years After Its Defeat, the Khalistan Movement Fights on in Cyberspace

Even if the referendum turns out to be a complete failure, though, the Khalistanis seem unlikely to fade away.

Terry Milewski

26 Jan 2022 · 19 min read

The Acquittal of the Colston Four

Both the right to freedom of expression and the institution of trial by jury came under intense scrutiny just three weeks after Raab’s article, when a Bristol jury acquitted four young people of criminal damage, even though they had all admitted tearing down a city centre statue.

Matthew Scott

25 Jan 2022 · 14 min read

We’re Lesbians on the Autism Spectrum. Stop Telling Us to Become Men

If there was ever a case for a trans child, I was it. Let’s take a look at the DSM-5 guidelines [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/296700032_The_DSM-5_Diagnostic_Criteria_for_Gender_Dysphoria] and its diagnostic definition of gender dysphoria, followed by descriptions of my own experience: A

J Peters

23 Jan 2022 · 13 min read

“Not Necessarily Nice Things” Uncomfortable Truths in Succession

We live in a world where the super-rich are often miserable. Part of the reason for this is that the heirs and heiresses to enormous fortunes amassed by their parents sometimes do very little with their own lives.

Scott Newman

22 Jan 2022 · 8 min read

Across the Muslim World, Islamism is Going out of Vogue

Islamism as an ideology may be great at mobilizing people, but this doesn’t necessarily translate towards effective governance, as has been proven again and again

Imran Said

21 Jan 2022 · 15 min read

Imperial College London’s Cancel Campaign Against Its Own Founders

The connection with the Beit family and its financial generosity has continued almost unbroken since the founding of the College.

Stephen Warren

21 Jan 2022 · 17 min read

Autism or Encephalitis? My Son’s Misdiagnosis and Our Family’s Season in Hell

Encephalitis recovery often takes years, not months, and some patients never fully recover.

S. Stiles

21 Jan 2022 · 19 min read

Weekly Roundup and the Importance of Academic Impartiality

Dear Quilletters, We have some absorbing new pieces for the contemplative reader. First peruse Marilyn Simon on Joel Coen’s adaptation of Macbeth, then Herman Goodden on James Joyce, and then for a side track, Adam Zivo on Cineforum, the coolest Toronto-based “indie” theater you’ve never heard of. We

Claire Lehmann

20 Jan 2022 · 6 min read

Involuntarily Celibate: Explanations and Practical Solutions to a Dangerous Phenomenon

The overall picture from our results is that places where local conditions make it harder than usual for young men to establish themselves as attractive mating prospects tend also to be places where online Incel action is more common.