Culture Wars - Quillette (Page 11)

It’s Time for Progressives to Protect Women Instead of Pronouns

Many liberals—including feminists and lesbians—have been cowardly in calling out this noxious phenomenon, for fear of being called transphobes.

Julie Bindel

14 Jun 2019 · 6 min read

The Rise of the Illiberal Right

Of course liberalism is not perfect, and it may well be in need of a course correction.

Cathy Young

11 Jun 2019 · 12 min read

Instagram's Diversity Wars Revisited

They threaten the businesses and livelihoods and professional reputations of good people struggling to navigate a dense web of ideological trip-wires.

Kathrine Jebsen Moore

7 Jun 2019 · 9 min read

It’s Not Your Imagination: The Journalists Writing About Antifa Are Often Their Cheerleaders

The intellectual dishonesty and disreputable methods used by these journalists are as bad as the behavior they aim to cure.

Eoin Lenihan

29 May 2019 · 8 min read

Bret Easton Ellis Nails Contemporary America

The Gen Xer whose satirical works include “American Psycho” and “Less Than Zero” also grasps the true essence of Donald Trump and our times in a way that eludes commentators on the Left and Right.

Christian Whiton

30 Apr 2019 · 4 min read

Cowardice at Columbia

If you find it implausible that a progressive women’s college in the middle of New York City is enforcing de facto Jim Crow at the security gate, your skepticism is warranted.

Coleman Hughes

19 Apr 2019 · 7 min read

How Our Little Humanist Club Got Taken Over by Social Justice Dogmatists

It seems wrong that the Executive Director of a humanist association should be able to use his organization’s governing mechanisms to shut down pushback against his publicly expressed ideological agenda.

Baz Edmeades

6 Apr 2019 · 9 min read

I Know what Intersectionality Is, and I Wish it Were Less Important

Half of the twentieth century produced emancipation movements that attained stunning gains for women, racial and ethnic minorities, and gays and lesbians.

Nicholas Wolfinger

20 Feb 2019 · 6 min read

The Plight of Pitch Wars

In 2019, though, it turns out that yes, you’re entitled to a book deal—as long as you collect enough marginalization points.

J. Avery

9 Feb 2019 · 6 min read

Twelve Scholars Respond to the APA’s Guidance for Treating Men and Boys

Introduction — John P. Wright, Ph.D. John Paul Wright is a professor of criminal justice at the University of Cincinnati. He has published widely on the causes and correlates of human violence. His current work examines how ideology affects scholarship. Follow him on Twitter @cjprofman. Thirteen years in the making,

Quillette

4 Feb 2019 · 19 min read

Attention, Star Trek Culture Warriors: Stand Down from Battle Stations

It’s a shame so many viewers apparently were too busy fighting the culture war on planet Earth to watch the much cooler war being fought against Klingon forces in the inky vastness of space.

Matt Gurney

29 Jan 2019 · 7 min read

The Dangers of Defining Deviancy Up

The idea of defining deviancy down has attracted renewed attention from commentators in the Trump era.

Ilana Redstone

24 Jan 2019 · 7 min read

Quand le 'Bye Bye' Éloigne les Deux Solitudes

Ils y ont vu un sketch qui tournait en ridicule le fait que le premier ministre avait lui-même folklorisé, voire caricaturé les coutumes indiennes lors de son périple. Alors que certains anglophones y ont plutôt vu une moquerie…de la communauté indienne.

François Cardinal

21 Jan 2019 · 7 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

The Posthumous #MeToo-ing of J. D. Salinger

Salinger has been posthumously relegated to the limbo of #MeToo-tainted, “problematic” cultural figures, which probably accounts for the awkward half-silence around his centenary.

Cathy Young

9 Jan 2019 · 12 min read