Activism - Quillette (Page 12)

Moving Away from Meat Means Welcoming the New 'Flexitarians'

Even prior to the pandemic, Barclays was predicting that the alternative-meat industry could grow ten-fold by the end of the next decade.

Ari David Blaff

29 May 2020 · 6 min read

Ronan Farrow’s Botched Journalism is Troubling. The Response to It Has Been Worse

The #MeToo era has been a time for all journalists to re-examine their professional standards.

Jonathan Kay

25 May 2020 · 14 min read

A Closer Look at 'White Fragility' Theory

Why might a social psychological concept gain such broad traction despite being poorly defined and weakly researched? Perhaps because it is true.

Valerie Tarico

5 Mar 2020 · 10 min read

An Alternative Feminist Perspective on Abortion

The fight to enshrine the right to unrestricted abortion in law is based on ideological feminism’s two main premises: victimization and what I call “undifferentiation.”

Silvia G. Poratelli

26 Feb 2020 · 12 min read

My Former Life as a Radical

They believe in the perfectibility of man in their own image: a combination of unscrupulous optimism and narcissism.

Gerfried Ambrosch

11 Feb 2020 · 11 min read

Reflections on Intersectionality

Different forms of suffering cannot easily be quantified and compared.

Coleman Hughes

14 Jan 2020 · 7 min read

False Humility Will Not Save the Planet

The right way to look at anthropogenic climate change is as an unexpected side-effect of something that, by and large, proved an immense blessing to humanity.

Maarten Boudry

2 Jan 2020 · 13 min read

Accessibility, Ableism, and the Decline of Excellence

Differences that benefit the individual (beauty, intelligence, wealth, initiative) can only be understood as unfair privileges, while differences that do not redound to the individual’s benefit can only be made into disabilities which ultimately perpetuate inequity.

Adam Ellwanger

28 Dec 2019 · 13 min read

Mark Zuckerberg and the Changing Civil Rights Movement

The truth is therefore that Mark Zuckerberg’s reading of civil rights history with respect to its relationship to free speech is closer to the mark than that of many who have inherited the mantle of the movement.

John R. Wood, Jr.

10 Dec 2019 · 6 min read

GM Crops Like Golden Rice Will Save the Lives of Hundreds of Thousands of Children

The International Rice Research Institute developed numerous different Golden Rice strains back-crossed into commonly grown varieties, behind tough security barriers because of constant threats from activists encouraged by Greenpeace.