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The Implosion of Boston’s Pride Parade Is a Sign of Things to Come

Pride 4 The People and its allies were scathing, accusing board members of preferring to shut down the organization rather than include black and trans people.

Maxwell Meyer

13 Oct 2021 · 12 min read

The Creeping Orthodoxy of the Neurodiversity Movement

Neurodiversity is on the right track, and I support the agenda as it builds upon the civil rights movement.

Bill Williams

3 Sep 2021 · 9 min read

The Canadian Historical Association’s Fake 'Consensus' on Canadian Genocide

The campaign to label Canada a genocide state isn’t an isolated phenomenon, but is playing out as part of a larger effort to destroy any publicly displayed symbol of national pride.

Christopher Dummitt

10 Aug 2021 · 11 min read

When You’re Diagnosed with Autism—by TikTok

It’s notable that no-one on TikTok is diagnosing themselves with schizophrenia or severe personality disorders such as antisocial and borderline.

Lucy Kross Wallace

3 Aug 2021 · 9 min read

Life as a Stand-Up Comic Can Be Brutal. ‘Safe Space’ Call-out Culture Is Making it Unbearable

“Cancel culture” has become a trendy term in recent years. But public shaming has always existed. It’s a social tool, and like all tools can be used for good or ill.

Jessica Pigeau

1 Aug 2021 · 35 min read

Rescuing the Radicalized Discourse on Sex and Gender: Part Two of a Three-Part Series

Our choice of words affects the way we think. That’s why we spend so much time fighting over which terms to use, whether it’s “undocumented immigrants” versus “illegal aliens,” “foetuses” versus “unborn babies,” or “militants” versus “terrorists.” In recent years, the question of word choice has figured prominently

Allan Stratton

27 Jul 2021 · 17 min read

The Faith of Systemic Racism

The radicals, always livid, always demanding more, insist that all this is window dressing. A sham.

Peter Savodnik

21 Jul 2021 · 7 min read

Should Critical Race Theory Be Banned in Public Schools?—a Conversation with Christopher F. Rufo

They’re embarking on an experiment that I think will ultimately fail and will ultimately harm children, but it’s an experiment that they’re entitled to embark on.

Jonathan Kay and Christopher F. Rufo

20 Jul 2021 · 25 min read

Almost Four Decades After Its Birth, The Diversity Industry Thrives on Its Own Failures

The increasing power of college diversity bureaucrats over academic affairs since the 1990s has been stunning.

Heather Mac Donald

12 Jul 2021 · 10 min read

Standing up to the Social-Justice Mobs Within the Jewish Community

The white Jewish leaders who attended were told in advance that they were expected to come and listen—to be seen and not heard.

David Bernstein

5 Jul 2021 · 12 min read

The Bias Narrative versus the Development Narrative: Thinking About Persistent Racial Inequality in the United States

How can you expect population parity in an enterprise when there are some groups (Asians? Jews?) who are significantly overrepresented?

Glenn C. Loury

27 Jun 2021 · 26 min read

Standing Up to the Gender Ideologues: a Quillette Editorial

Once you sweep aside all the glitter showers, animated unicorns, and rainbow emojis, that is ultimately what gender supremacism is truly about.

Quillette

24 Jun 2021 · 10 min read

The 'Gender Supremacist' Threat to the Progressive Alliance: Part One of a Three-Part Series

Allan Stratton

22 Jun 2021 · 22 min read

A Conversation with Daniel Elder, the Choral Music Composer Who Was Cancelled for Opposing Arson

If you’re willing to endure the painful trial of self, you will be better for it in the end. And, with enough of us, the world will be better, too.

Quillette

22 Jun 2021 · 9 min read

When Sons Become Daughters: It’s Time to Admit That Reflexive ‘Affirmation’ Has Been a Mistake

Teenagers are being told that puberty is a time for them to make decisions about sex and gender, this at a time when they have none of the life experience that would be necessary to make such existential choices.

Angus Fox

18 Jun 2021 · 16 min read