book review - Quillette (Page 3)

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.

17 Jan 2019 · 13 min read

Tyler Cowen's Stubborn Attachments—A Review

In a cultural landscape where partisan skirmishes regularly induce something approaching bloodlust on both sides of the political aisle, it’s safe to say that most Americans are roundly rejecting Cowen’s thesis at the moment.

Coleman Hughes

21 Nov 2018 · 10 min read

The One-Sided Worldview of Hans Rosling

The reputation of the Nobel Prize has been tarnished by the scandals at the Swedish Academy in 2017–18, and the scientific and medical scandal caused by the fatal windpipe transplantations at Karolinska.

Christian Berggren

16 Nov 2018 · 15 min read

Charlie Kirk's Campus Battlefield—A Review

Those curious about the next cohorts of conservatives—right-leaning students currently being reared in the age of Trump—should begin with Kirk.

Grant Addison

11 Nov 2018 · 13 min read

The Souls of Yellow Folk—A Review

Collectively, the essays paint a fascinating and disturbing picture of pre-dystopian anomie and dissolution.

Daniel Oppenheimer

9 Nov 2018 · 8 min read

Germaine Greer's 'On Rape'—A Review

As an answer to the conundrum of consent I don’t think much of it.

Matthew Scott

5 Nov 2018 · 11 min read

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

Brotopia—Analysis and Review

Chang shows no awareness that gender parity is the exception not the rule in the US workplace.

Sean Welsh

12 Oct 2018 · 13 min read

Forget Nature Versus Nurture. Nature Has Won

Plomin tries to present this cascade of new information about the genetic influence on human behavior in a way that will positively affect human behavior – but his own work suggests the impact of such arguments will be limited.

Gregory Cochran

25 Sep 2018 · 7 min read

The UK Labour Party and the System of Diversity

The Tribe is an articulate, scrupulously fair but nonetheless root-and-branch attack on the ‘system and administration of diversity’, not only in UK Labour but also in other British institutions, including the civil service and the BBC.