Pride and Prejudice
The self-esteem movements that once deranged America’s school curricula have since deranged the realm of identity activism.
Steve Salerno
· 16 min read
Black Lives Matter
A collection of 9 posts
Did the BLM Protests Against the Police Lead to the 2020 Spike in Homicides?
One of the most robust findings in social science is that reductions in effective policing correlate with increases in crime.
Wilfred Reilly
· 9 min read
Racial Justice: Don’t Abandon the Incrementalist Approach
Another reason that many liberals have increasingly rejected incrementalism is that racial disparities appear to be unchanged.
Robert Cherry
· 7 min read
A Declaration of Independence by a Princeton Professor
Independence of thought is considered the hallmark of academia, but everyone deserves it.
Joshua T. Katz
· 6 min read
PODCAST 94: Professor Glenn Loury on Racial Unrest in America
Listen onSpotify Glenn Loury, a professor of economics at Brown University, talks to Jonathan Kay about the aftermath of the police killing of George Floyd. Professor Loury recently published a piece about this in Quillette entitled Condemn the Violence Without Equivocation.
Quillette, Glenn C. Loury
· 1 min read
PODCAST 83: Professor Wilfred Reilly on his new book Taboo: 10 Facts You Can't Talk About
Listen onSpotify Kentucky State political science professor Wilfred Reilly talks to Toby Young about his new book Taboo: 10 Facts You Can’t Talk About. Professor Reilly’s last piece for Quillette was about the 1776 project.
Quillette, Wilfred Reilly, Toby Young
· 1 min read
Quillette Podcast 5 — Heather Mac Donald on the Free Speech Crisis in the Academy
Listen onSpotify Canadian editor Jonathan Kay talks to Heather Mac Donald, a Fellow of the Manhattan Institute, a contributing editor of City Journal and the author of several books, most recently The Diversity Delusion: How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture. Among other topics, they
Quillette
· 1 min read
The Infantilisation of Black America
This embarrassing spectacle sometimes resembles an adult who humors a fractious infant just to reassure it that he is an amiable and unthreatening figure.
Tosin Akintola
· 8 min read
The Radical and the Moderate — Struggling with Martin Luther King's Legacy
If activists are embarrassed by constitutional norms, religious devotion, and American virtues, then what are the values around which a progressive movement can hope to organise?
Robert Showah
· 17 min read