Weekly Roundup and a Legal Scholar's Response to the Rittenhouse Trial
Sometimes, what we are taught, and then either by mistake or by force, integrate into our thinking, is contrary to the conditions of human life.
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Weekly Roundup and a Social Media Symposium
Dear Quilletters, Welcome to the 1,010 new subscribers since the last Weekly Roundup! This week you'll find an eclectic selection of articles to read, including a symposium of mental health experts on the impacts of social media; a summary and analysis of anti-vaccination arguments from the
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Weekly Roundup and the Harassment of Professor Kathleen Stock
Before you read this week's articles, I'd like to draw your attention to the distressing harassment that one of our contributors, Kathleen Stock, a professor of philosophy at the University of Sussex, has been subjected to on her campus. Kathleen Stock authored the book Material Girls:
Instagram's Mental Health Emergency
The main ethical problem posed by Instagram is that young people are not mature enough to give informed consent to having their preferences harvested and fed back to them by a corporation that specialises in attention manipulation.
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If there were a modern day Voltaire, or a 21st century Bertrand Russell, Steven Pinker would be it. So it is a tremendous honour for me to bring you an excerpt of Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters, by the man himself, in this week&
"These Are Very Bad Dudes" — David Buss on Sexual Conflict and the Dark Triad
So sexual conflict is pervasive, and the evolutionary perspective adds a lot of clarity to where and why men and women get into conflict and the particular manifestations it takes in the human case.
Weekly Roundup and a Letter from the Editor
Dear Reader, Thank you for supporting Quillette with your subscription. By now you have probably noticed our new look—we have a cleaner and simpler website that is faster and easier to navigate (note the search function at the top of the home page). You may have also noticed that
The Problem With Linking Censorship to Incitement
In any case, I do not share the view that to restrict speech necessarily diminishes the spread of ideas.