When Denouncing ‘Settler Colonialism’ Blurs into Hamas Apologism: A Conversation with Michael Powell The Atlantic magazine writer speaks with Quillette’s Jonathan Kay about the use of fashionable academic jargon to convey hateful propaganda. Jonathan Kay 19 Jan 2024 · 18 min read
Feminism v. Gender Ideology: An Interview with Julie Bindel During a visit to the county she calls ‘Tranada,’ the veteran activist and author tells Quillette that ‘intersectional’ feminism often resembles a rainbow-branded offshoot of the men’s-rights movement. Julie Bindel / Jonathan Kay 7 Dec 2023 · 29 min read
The Insidious Lie That We Can’t Understand Each Other And a guide for how to productively push back against the identity trap. Yascha Mounk 4 Oct 2023 · 15 min read
Civil Rights and Wrongs Richard Hanania’s new book is a welcome entry to the conversation about wokeness, but his power-based perspective is incomplete. Oliver Traldi 23 Sep 2023 · 16 min read
Saving Liberalism from ‘The Identity Trap’: An Interview with Yascha Mounk In an acclaimed new book, the German-American political scientist traces the rise of illiberal intellectual movements among modern progressives. Jonathan Kay 19 Sep 2023 · 13 min read
My Journey Out of Extremism And how I became a small-l liberal. Richard Hanania 7 Aug 2023 · 10 min read
Civility Isn’t Weakness—It’s How We Win A commitment to civility is first and foremost about not becoming what we oppose. Julian Adorney / Angel Eduardo 14 Jul 2023 · 3 min read
The Unbearable Whiteness of Being The American Physical Society views the existence of White Privilege in physics as being both scientific and not scientific. Lawrence M. Krauss 5 May 2023 · 5 min read
The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling Continue Dissecting a lengthy YouTube attack on gender-critical feminists Holly Lawford-Smith 26 Apr 2023 · 14 min read
The Fall of ‘Nature’ A once-respected journal has announced that it will be subordinating science to ideology. Bo Winegard 28 Aug 2022 · 11 min read
Woke Capitalism’s Tragedy of the Commons Woke capitalism is rational, but it is also unsustainable. Ilya Levine 24 May 2022 · 6 min read
The Hard Left and Populist Right Agree on All the Wrong Things The ideas that unite the hard Left and the populist Right against the West itself are the same ones that make them both so excited about the culture wars. Stephan Jensen 13 May 2022 · 8 min read
Zemmour’s Final Word The danger—or opportunity, depending on your view—is that two radical candidates like Mélenchon and Zemmour win the first round. RJ Smith 25 Nov 2021 · 9 min read
The Culture War is Coming for Your Genes The truth is we can never hope for a perfect alignment between moral desert and material reward because we each have competing definitions of what constitutes merit. Damien Morris 30 Sep 2021 · 11 min read
The Ironies of Sex Young people are still discovering their sexual selves and are often lost when exploring the sexual terrain of someone else’s body and mind. Gregory Gorelik 22 Sep 2021 · 8 min read