Academia Versus Civilization
The antisemitism of campus leftism may be incidental. The barbarism is the point.
Tal Fortgang, Jonathan Deluty
· 16 min read
Activism
A collection of 242 posts
Pious Fraud, or the Moral Licence to Lie
Building worldviews and political movements on falsehoods destroys common sense-making, impedes effective policy design, and erodes social trust and cohesion.
Brandon McMurtrie
· 5 min read
Toward Ruin or Recovery?
The modern feminist response to rape is failing women, and it is failing victims of rape most of all.
Larissa Phillips
· 35 min read
Are Climate Doomers for Real?
Activists of all stripes will continue to preach that the end of the world is nigh, but that doesn’t mean that we should take them seriously.
Maarten Boudry
· 14 min read
Environmentalism Should Not Be Intersectional
Sustainable progress requires that ecological concerns be taken seriously and addressed rationally.
Gerfried Ambrosch
· 12 min read
The Southern Poverty Law Center’s New Enemy: Americans Who Accept Biology
A new SPLC propaganda document claims to ‘expose’ a vast ‘Anti-LGBTQ+ Pseudoscience Network’ that’s supposedly targeting trans people.
The Quillette Editorial Board
· 12 min read
A History of Feminist Antisemitism
The story of how activists and academics exchanged the struggle for universal female improvement for a politics of division and hatred.
Kara Jesella
· 21 min read
Apostles of Appeasement
A short history of phoney peace groups and their fellow travellers.
Oscar Clarke
· 10 min read
The Barbarian Evasions
Hamas’s progressive apologists seek self-justification in the moral incoherence of relativistic absolutism.
David A. Eisenberg
· 4 min read
Neuroaffirmation—A Therapist’s Concerns
I worry about the unintended consequences of the neurodiversity movement, particularly when their demands are promulgated religiously and without nuance.
Rita Range
· 10 min read
New Atheism and the Demand for Dogma
The notion that we abandoned our old faiths and replaced them with new ones is too tidy and simplistic.
Matt Johnson
· 10 min read
Gender’s Truth-Distortion Field
Across the English-speaking world, the discussion of trans rights is governed by taboos, sacred myths, and, in some cases, outright lies.
Sean Masters, Raimund Hume
· 10 min read
The Fragility of the Caste-Oppression Hypothesis
Empty claims of caste discrimination in the West have damaging legal, reputational, and social consequences.
Prakash Shah
· 9 min read
The Sanctification of the Self
The focus on the self to the exclusion of everything else is undermining the rule of law.
Megan Wildhood
· 8 min read
The Battle of Sainte-Soline
The events at Sainte-Soline have received less attention from the international media than the pension-reform protests, but they are arguably more consequential.
Robert Zaretsky
· 6 min read