Arts and Culture - Quillette (Page 5)

A Mania for All Seasons: The Continuing Importance of 'The Devils of Loudun'

Huxley’s dissection of a seventeenth century social pandemonium, whipped up in an era of shifting sexual mores, is a timeless indictment of the latent monstrousness within all human beings.

Samuel McGee-Hall

2 Nov 2018 · 11 min read

Why It's Time to End Factory Farming

Think about the horses who were replaced by cars. Cars do the same thing horses do—they move people from one place to another—but without all the crap.

Jacy Reese

20 Oct 2018 · 6 min read

An Academic Mobbing at McGill

In true mobbing fashion, the extreme and racist allegations that Ibrahim was a typical Arabic misogynist and sexual predator simply do not add up. In fact the opposite is true.

Barbara Kay

17 Oct 2018 · 25 min read

Single Issue Campaigning and the Polarisation Problem

Campaigns that mischaracterise issues and stigmatise opponents reduce the complex to the simplistic in ways that are fundamentally unhelpful

Ali Goldsworthy and Rob Blackie

9 Oct 2018 · 8 min read

The Purity Spiral of Canada's Music Industry

Now that they are channeling the self-censoring spirit of our times, the soul is being sucked out of the business, and the art, that I love. This essay is my attempt to explain how we got here.

Neil Gray

30 Sep 2018 · 24 min read

#MeToo Casualty Ian Buruma Was the Editor We Needed

I’m not the only reader left longing for an editor who displays a lordly disregard for public opinion

Colin Marshall

26 Sep 2018 · 15 min read

Narrow Roads of Bozo Land: How We Came to Be Governed by Online Mobs

Visionaries may be moody, obsessive loners but without them to provide a good idea in the first place, implementers end up working diligently to implement a faulty vision, like clockwork toys set off in the wrong direction.

Adam Perkins

22 Sep 2018 · 10 min read

Social Justice in the Shadows

Some of the greatest lessons I learned in actual social justice came from my parents, even if they didn’t use the term “social justice.”

Clay Routledge

14 Sep 2018 · 7 min read

Journalism in the Age of the Populist Right

Bannon’s deplatforming has reignited the debate about the responsibilities that mainstream event organisers and media broadcasters have when giving a platform to far-right views, and what limits we should place on public discourse.

Andrew Glover

5 Sep 2018 · 7 min read

Is Safetyism Destroying a Generation?

Students now work in tandem with administrators to make their campus ‘safe’ from threatening ideas.

Matthew Lesh

2 Sep 2018 · 10 min read

Why Do We Feel the Need to Transgender the Dead?

It wasn’t that these women cross-dressed to be men. It’s that they cross-dressed not to be women.

Julian Vigo

31 Aug 2018 · 10 min read

Progress and Polytheism: Could an Ethical West Exist Without Christianity?

Christianity’s moral vision was not as revolutionary as a casual student of history might suppose. Nor did it equip Western society with a unique set of virtues that were unknown to the ancient world.

Ben Bassett

23 Aug 2018 · 9 min read

Rejecting Progress in the Name of 'Cultural Appropriation'

Historically, it has been the European openness not only to foreign goods, but also foreign ideas – those which work, those which enhance our physical and mental wellbeing – that has signalled the forward march of modernity.

Neema Parvini

22 Aug 2018 · 7 min read