Author of "Troubled," a memoir about growing up in foster care; known for coining the term "luxury beliefs."
A review of Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment by Daniel Kahneman, Oliver Sibony, and Cass R. Sunstein. Little, Brown and Company, 464 pages (May 2021) Are crowds smart or dumb? You may have heard the terms “wisdom of the crowds” and the “madness of crowds.” The former idea is
A review of When Men Behave Badly: The Hidden Roots of Sexual Deception, Harassment, and Assault by David M. Buss, Little, Brown Spark, 336 pages (April 2021) Professor David M. Buss, a leading evolutionary psychologist, states in the introduction of his fascinating new book that it “uncovers the hidden roots
The first type, termed the “central” route, comes from careful and thoughtful consideration of the messages we hear.
Listen onSpotify Quillette contributor and Cambridge PhD student Rob Henderson on how cancel culture became one of America’s most successful exports and why upper middle class whites have embraced the woke agenda. (Click here to listen to the podcast.) Rob recently wrote a piece for Quillette entitled America Exports
Consider the way charges of “racism” have been used to target individuals.
Some women do marry men with less education, though. These women tend to marry men who earn more than them.
The chief purpose of luxury beliefs is to indicate evidence of the believer’s social class and education.
The problem with white privilege is its mono-causal disposition (“one-thing-ism”).
In fact, white privilege condenses the complexities of group outcomes into a simple narrative that does not help anyone.
We are natural conformers because, more often than not, it keeps us alive and in good standing with our peers.
Because calamities are uniquely egalitarian in their capacity to kill indiscriminately, they dampen the qualities that make us different.
Without voluntary associations, we tend to reduce unfamiliar individuals down to a set of salient features.
