Activism - Quillette (Page 7)

The Campaign of Lies Against Journalist Jesse Singal—And Why It Matters

One of the odd-seeming aspects of progressive cancel culture is that many of the figures targeted by mobs aren’t especially conservative in their views.

Jonathan Kay

18 Mar 2021 · 13 min read

Science Goes Rogue

Science as a discipline is supposed to be based on empirical evidence.

Lawrence M. Krauss

14 Mar 2021 · 8 min read

Leaving Portland

Leaving was a relief but also a loss. There’s plenty to love about Portland.

Michael J. Totten

14 Mar 2021 · 22 min read

The Threat to Academic Freedom: From Anecdotes to Data

The moral community is now self-reproducing. It is also self-radicalising.

Eric Kaufmann

12 Mar 2021 · 24 min read

The Problem With ‘Indigenizing the University’

Everyone, Indigenous and non-Indigenous alike, is free to explore their own spiritual beliefs, of course. But the university is not the place for such exercises.

Frances Widdowson

24 Feb 2021 · 13 min read

Towards Practical Empowerment

In A Critique of Anti-Racism, I offer empowerment theory as a framework for anti-racist work, whether it is activism or pedagogy.

Erec Smith

19 Feb 2021 · 10 min read

Accommodating Trans Athletes Without Rejecting the Reality of Human Biology

As recent studies have shown, these advantages generally don’t go away simply because an athlete has changed their pronouns and hormone chemistry. At the highest levels, the difference between male and female world records typically hovers around 10 percent.

Quillette

17 Feb 2021 · 11 min read

Unspeakable Truths about Racial Inequality in America

We have to make ourselves equal. No one can do it for us.

Glenn C. Loury

10 Feb 2021 · 20 min read

A (Failed) Campaign to Smear a University of Toronto Scholarship Student as a Bigot

The problem, he notes is that there is always going to be a required balance between our trusting inclination of accusations from an apparent victim, and everyone’s inviolable right of due process.

Michael Humeniuk

8 Feb 2021 · 12 min read

Sexual Assault and the Taboo of Sound Advice

Yes, your car might be stolen even if you lock it and take the keys, but does that mean that no one should remind us to lock our cars and take our keys?

Steve Salerno

7 Feb 2021 · 6 min read

‘More Weight’: An Academic’s Guide to Surviving Campus Witch Hunts

When you are being targeted by aggression, hostility, and hatred, a natural impulse is to want to fight back as hard as possible, and exact revenge.

Dorian S. Abbot

5 Feb 2021 · 8 min read

First, Do No Harm: A New Model for Treating Trans-Identified Children

Individuals with a fragile ego structure also tend to be prone toward black-and-white thinking, which leads them to concrete rather than symbolic solutions.