Understanding America's Cultural and Political Realignment
To understand our politics, we need to understand the cultural values that drive it.
Richard Tafel
· 11 min read
Culture Wars
A collection of 205 posts
In Praise of Renoir's Male Gaze
Renoir’s nudes are the evidence of a tirelessly hopeful soul struggling against the dingy reality of the modern world, with its modern industry and its modern warfare, that turns all human flesh into disposable objects, without joy or humanity.
Marilyn Simon
· 8 min read
Once Upon a Time...Film Critics Became Joyless—A Review
Tarantino is quintessentially American. He lets us linger and watch Tate in all her Technicolor radiance. He lets us love her. What’s more, he lets her watch and love herself.
Steven Volynets
· 9 min read
PODCAST 48: Professor Bruce Gilley on Anti-Conservative Bias on Campus
Listen onSpotify Toby Young talks to Bruce Gilley, professor of political science at Portland State, about not being able to get his course on conservative political thought approved by his faculty, and his efforts to fight back against progressive authoritarianism on campus. He recently published a piece in Quillette about
Quillette, Toby Young
· 1 min read
Knitting's Infinity War, Part III: Showdown at Yarningham
The post brought out the worst of the knitting world’s anti-racism mobs
Kathrine Jebsen Moore
· 9 min read
A Canadian Human Rights Spectacle Exposes the Risks of Unfettered Gender Self-ID
The central point of gender self-ID is that you are taking someone to be a woman or a man solely on the basis of what they claim
Helen Joyce
· 11 min read
Quillette Podcast 44 – Professor Wilfred Reilly on Hate Crime Hoaxes
Listen onSpotify Toby Young talks to Wilfred Reilly, an assistant professor of political science at Kentucky State University, about his new book documenting the prevalence of hate crime hoaxes such as that of Jussie Smollet, and what that tells us about contemporary American society. Professor Reilly recently wrote an article
Quillette, Wilfred Reilly
· 1 min read
Antifa's Brutal Assault on Andy Ngo Is a Wake-Up Call—for Authorities and Journalists Alike
The Antifa thugs who attacked Quillette editor and photojournalist Andy Ngo in Portland yesterday did not quite manage to crack his skull.
Quillette
· 5 min read
Quillette Podcast 37 – Kathrine Jebsen Moore on How Knitting Was Captured by the Social Justice Cult
Listen onSpotify Jonathan Kay talks to Kathrine Jebsen Moore about how the Instagram knitting community has been invaded by vengeful Social Justice mobs. Kathrine has written about this strange phenomenon twice for Quillette, once on 17th February, and once on 7th June.
Quillette, Kathrine Jebsen Moore
· 1 min read
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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 8 min read
How the IDW Can Avoid the Tribalist Pull
Regardless of how one feels about the “IDW” brand, the heterodox movement associated with that label has had a significant and largely positive cultural impact.
Cathy Young
· 11 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
· 4 min read