Arts and Culture - Quillette (Page 4)

Entering the Mind of an Inuit Whale-Hunter

Klarmann and Eklund didn’t care about getting players to admire Indigenous peoples, even if that is what they achieved. They were just two nerds trying to make a good game.

Jonathan Kay

21 Jan 2019 · 16 min read

Truth and Disfavored Identities

Activists and Twitter blowhards, some of them with thousands of followers, have run roughshod over the facts with a false narrative of grotesque privilege colliding with noble oppression that confirmed their ideological preferences.

Joshua Hunter

20 Jan 2019 · 6 min read

Why Quebec Isn't Interested in Anglo Lectures About Cultural Appropriation

The joke was on the PM, not on India, on Indians or or Indo-Canadians. Yet that was not how some Anglophones saw it.

François Cardinal

17 Jan 2019 · 8 min read

What Is This Thing You Call 'Social Justice'?

“Why should I object to that term, sir? You see, in our century we’ve learned not to fear words,” Uhura says.

Barrett Wilson

17 Jan 2019 · 10 min read

Gillette's Progressive Politics: 'Corinthian Leather' for the Progressive Soul

n the 1960s, being progressive meant expanding the range of permissible behaviour. A half century later, it’s about imposing constraints.

Jonathan Kay

17 Jan 2019 · 9 min read

Francis Fukuyama’s Master Concept

As far as “master concepts” go, this one is hard to beat. One worries, however, that it is a little too neat.

Patrick Lee Miller

17 Jan 2019 · 13 min read

Headline Rhymes

Views on the news, delivered so smooth.

Graham Verdon

17 Jan 2019 · 1 min read

Correcting ‘Youth’s Eternal Temptation to Arrogance’—One Bedtime Story at a Time

Children get a wider perspective when they’re tugged out of the here and now for a little while each day. In an enchanted hour, we can read them stories of the real and imagined past.

Meghan Cox Gurdon

13 Jan 2019 · 9 min read

In Praise of Boredom, Again

Brodsky said that when confronted by boredom we should “exact full look at the worst.” He said “When hit by boredom, go for it. Let yourself be crushed by it; submerge, hit bottom.”

Caroline ffiske

11 Jan 2019 · 6 min read

Is Religious Belief in Decline?

“Every human being worships something,” we’re told, whether it’s the movement of the planets, alien civilizations, a political cause, science, or even reason.

Matt Johnson

9 Jan 2019 · 10 min read

How the Self-Esteem Myth Has Damaged Society and Us—An Interview with Will Storr

When we tell ourselves we can be anything we want to be, which is the myth that emerges from Human Potential and self-esteem ideas, we’re setting ourselves up for unhappiness, because it’s simply not true.