Culture Wars - Quillette (Page 2)

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 · 10 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 · 12 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

The Good Death—Cancel Culture and the Logic of Torture

It is unsettling to consider how similar today’s public cancellations are to those public executions.

Christophe Van Eecke

9 Sep 2021 · 20 min read

Luxury Belief Systems and Economic Stagnation: The Recipe for Our Discontent

The result of these two trendlines—the dominance of luxury-belief-driven status competition in a period of extended economic stagnation—was a brew of identity politics, political tribalism, and cultural warfare that would have been bad enough on its own.

Andrew Potter

19 Aug 2021 · 9 min read

Watching America’s Crack-Up

America was born of the virgin Liberty, and like the son of God in which it still largely believes, will always rise from the dead.

Benjamin Kerstein

9 Aug 2021 · 20 min read

The Society of Cultural Anthropology’s Campaign to Present American Populism as Fascism

The January 6th riot does make for a visually dramatic backdrop to an exploration of the fascistic strain in modern populist politics.

Matthew Porter

5 Aug 2021 · 8 min read

Charles Murray's 'Facing Reality'—A Review

Facing Reality attempts to force into view data that many Americans would rather not acknowledge.

Razib Khan

29 Jul 2021 · 12 min read

Vaccines and the Coronavirus Crank Crisis

Wrong to the bitter end, sceptics have taken this as a vindication of their do-nothing strategy and are celebrating the decline of a summer surge they said could never happen.

Christopher J. Snowdon

28 Jul 2021 · 16 min read

The Faith of Systemic Racism

The radicals, always livid, always demanding more, insist that all this is window dressing. A sham.

Peter Savodnik

21 Jul 2021 · 7 min read

Should Critical Race Theory Be Banned in Public Schools?—a Conversation with Christopher F. Rufo

They’re embarking on an experiment that I think will ultimately fail and will ultimately harm children, but it’s an experiment that they’re entitled to embark on.

Jonathan Kay and Christopher F. Rufo

20 Jul 2021 · 25 min read

The Accomplishments of Black Conservative Thought

As a black conservative man, I will add one final note. None of the points made in this essay—about the over-hyping of victimhood in modern America or the cultural issues in working-class black and white communities—is meant to imply that racism does not exist.

Wilfred Reilly

19 Jul 2021 · 7 min read

The Black Panthers march in New York City in protest of the trial of co-founder Huey P. Newton.

The Strange Rehabilitation of the Black Panther Party

Isn’t it a little late for the rehabilitation of the Black Panther Party (BPP)? After all, the organization that first caught the public’s attention in 1969 was already in its death throes by the early 1970s, beset by internal splits, criminal prosecutions, and violent faction-fighting. Yet, five decades

Ronald Radosh

13 Jul 2021 · 18 min read

Almost Four Decades After Its Birth, The Diversity Industry Thrives on Its Own Failures

The increasing power of college diversity bureaucrats over academic affairs since the 1990s has been stunning.

Heather Mac Donald

12 Jul 2021 · 10 min read

On Victimhood and Culture—A Reply to Aaron Hanna

The idea that whites were in the house while blacks were sweating in the fields despising them is comfortable to us today as we look upon the context as a whole and justly revile it.

John McWhorter

30 Jun 2021 · 5 min read