Culture Wars - Quillette (Page 3)

The 'Gender Supremacist' Threat to the Progressive Alliance: Part One of a Three-Part Series

Allan Stratton

22 Jun 2021 · 22 min read

A Conversation with Daniel Elder, the Choral Music Composer Who Was Cancelled for Opposing Arson

If you’re willing to endure the painful trial of self, you will be better for it in the end. And, with enough of us, the world will be better, too.

Quillette

22 Jun 2021 · 9 min read

When Sons Become Daughters: It’s Time to Admit That Reflexive ‘Affirmation’ Has Been a Mistake

Teenagers are being told that puberty is a time for them to make decisions about sex and gender, this at a time when they have none of the life experience that would be necessary to make such existential choices.

Angus Fox

18 Jun 2021 · 16 min read

The Conservative Case for Cannabis Legalization

The lack of conservative leadership on this issue is perhaps most keenly felt on the economic side of things, since the cannabis industry creates opportunities for small businesses and domestic manufacturing.

Matthew Roy Ackerman

15 Jun 2021 · 9 min read

Why Is the Society for American Archaeology Promoting Indigenous Creationism?

The most expansive interpretations of NAGPRA’s provisions now serve to place Indigenous oral traditions, which typically include religious stories, on equal footing with traditional forms of scientific evidence such as DNA analysis.

Elizabeth Weiss and James W. Springer

13 Jun 2021 · 15 min read

Silicon Valley’s ‘Mission Protocol’ Revolution Is Beginning to Attain Critical Mass

They came to build the future and make money in the process.

Peter Savodnik

11 Jun 2021 · 8 min read

Are Activists Protecting Asians from Hate—or Protecting Their Narrative of White Supremacy from Criticism?

But often it seems that means and end have become reversed, and that these crimes now serve as a prop in the larger ideological campaign against our supposedly white-supremacy-saturated culture—a campaign that Asians themselves are now being pressured to join.

Hai Di Nguyen

8 Jun 2021 · 11 min read

When Sons Become Daughters, Part VI: Asexuality, Intelligence, and the Trans Co-Option of Intersex Discourse

Puberty had been distressing and rough. He’d began to cut himself, and saw transition as a way out.

Angus Fox

7 Jun 2021 · 12 min read

No, Critical Race Theory Isn’t a New Civil Rights Movement. (Just the Opposite)

The difference between the civil rights movement and CRT isn’t one of degree or shade. It’s foundational.

Kenny Xu and Christian Watson

6 Jun 2021 · 7 min read

Modern Europe and the Enlightenment—A Review

Modern Europe and the Enlightenment opens by presenting a balanced examination and robust summary of Enlightenment values.

T.M. Murray

30 May 2021 · 7 min read

The Gathering Resistance to the Stigmatisation of Masculinity

There is now a growing international movement of men and women dedicated to resisting the anti-masculinity narrative.

Hannah Gal

26 May 2021 · 7 min read

Lived Experiences Aren’t Special

Lived experiences are often vividly used by progressive activists as evidence of widespread injustice, accompanied with a call for action and social change.

Tim Hsiao

24 May 2021 · 6 min read

How Liberal Elites Use Race to Keep Workers Divided—And Justify Class-Based Inequities

Liberals have abandoned history, because they have to believe they are superior to both elites of the past and the contemporary working class, at the same time.

Catherine Liu

20 May 2021 · 6 min read

Gender Activists Co-Opted British Columbia’s Courts. Meet the Woman Who Stood Up to Them

Under this policy, declaring one’s pronouns is required when people introduce themselves in court whether they present in keeping with their biological sex or not.

Karin Litzcke

19 May 2021 · 16 min read

Cancelling Comedians While the World Burns—A Review

“Cancel culture” remains a contested term, and the chapter devoted to this phenomenon will probably attract the most discussion and controversy.

Adam Wakeling

17 May 2021 · 6 min read