Activism - Quillette (Page 14)

Who Needs Democracy Anyway?

The rise of social media means that a limited number of academics, industry bodies or professional groups can promote almost any agenda, however obtuse, gain slightly wider support online, and create the appearance of significant authoritative status.

Ross Elliott

30 Jul 2019 · 6 min read

A Canadian Human Rights Spectacle Exposes the Risks of Unfettered Gender Self-ID

The central point of gender self-ID is that you are taking someone to be a woman or a man solely on the basis of what they claim

Helen Joyce

25 Jul 2019 · 11 min read

Neutralizing Ngo: The Apologetics of Antifascist Street Violence

In a vein similar to Orwell’s lexicology of apologetics, criminological theory may help inform an understanding of how speech is used in defense of the indefensible at another level of analysis—that of rhetorical strategies.

Ernest Nickels

11 Jul 2019 · 9 min read

Stonewall's LGBT Guidance is Limiting the Free Speech of Gender Critical Academics

But that’s the thing about freedom of speech: you tend not to notice it being curtailed until it’s your speech that’s being restricted.

Kathleen Stock

6 Jul 2019 · 12 min read

How Antifa's Apologists Fell in Love With Street Violence

Antifa movements have sprung up in a variety of countries, often opposing Nazis and Nazi sympathizers while also promoting general far-left politics of the Marxist and communist variety.

Robby Soave

3 Jul 2019 · 7 min read

Antifa's Brutal Assault on Andy Ngo Is a Wake-Up Call—for Authorities and Journalists Alike

The Antifa thugs who attacked Quillette editor and photojournalist Andy Ngo in Portland yesterday did not quite manage to crack his skull.

Quillette

30 Jun 2019 · 5 min read

Cornell students emerging from Willard Straight Hall after the takeover.

The Fog of Youth: The Cornell Student Takeover, 50 Years On

The ethical shortcomings of the 1969 Cornell student rebellion, which appear so glaring today, were anything but clear to us radical activists at the time.

Tony Fels

25 Jun 2019 · 27 min read

Ideology and Facts Collide at Oberlin College

The recently concluded libel trial involving Oberlin College offered a demonstration of this phenomenon on the part of both the defendants and much of the media covering the case.

Daniel McGraw

20 Jun 2019 · 15 min read

How a Feminist Prophet Became an Apostate—An Interview with Dr Phyllis Chesler

Dr Phyllis Chesler has never been afraid to be unpopular.

Louise Perry

20 Jun 2019 · 11 min read

A Black Eye for the Columbia Journalism Review

Essays attacking the left- or right-wing bias of this or that media outlet are, of course, old hat in my business.

Jonathan Kay

18 Jun 2019 · 9 min read

Instagram's Diversity Wars Revisited

They threaten the businesses and livelihoods and professional reputations of good people struggling to navigate a dense web of ideological trip-wires.

Kathrine Jebsen Moore

7 Jun 2019 · 9 min read

Why Don't Women Vote For Feminist Parties?

It is naïve to imagine that female voters will necessarily support feminist goals, even when they would benefit from them. Feminists have known this for a long time.

Louise Perry

31 May 2019 · 11 min read

It’s Not Your Imagination: The Journalists Writing About Antifa Are Often Their Cheerleaders

The intellectual dishonesty and disreputable methods used by these journalists are as bad as the behavior they aim to cure.

Eoin Lenihan

29 May 2019 · 8 min read

The Sad Truth About ‘Fat Acceptance’

Unfortunately for some activists, gravity wasn’t invented by white settlers.

Anna Slatz

26 Apr 2019 · 9 min read

Teenage Climate-Change Protestors Have No Idea What They’re Protesting

Our decisions tend to be rooted not in scientific analysis but in emotional reaction; and we tend to see protest not as a tool for social or legislative change, but simply as a chance to upset the status quo.

Felix Kirkby

25 Apr 2019 · 4 min read