Culture Wars - Quillette (Page 4)

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 · 7 min read

Debate and Disinformation: The Ugly Quarrel Over the UK Government’s Race Report

Most critics have instead based their criticism on the demonstrably false accusation that the report “denied the existence of institutional racism in the UK.”

Damian Counsell

17 May 2021 · 24 min read

When Sons Become Daughters, Part V: The Links Between Trans Identity, Gifted Minds, Categorical Thinking—And Anime

Anime offers vividly coloured worlds, in which giant-eyed kids and anthropomorphized animals conduct heroic journeys against beautifully detailed backdrops.

Angus Fox

11 May 2021 · 17 min read

Keep Social-Justice Indoctrination Out of the Therapist’s Office

One of the earliest stains on the legacy of psychiatry, my medical specialty, dates to the American 1840 census, when the US government first began systematically collecting information on “idiocy” and “insanity.” According to the results, the purported rates of mental illness among free blacks in northern cities were deemed

Sally Satel

7 May 2021 · 11 min read

Gaslighting the Concerned Parents of Trans Children—A Psychotherapist’s View

I first met Jo and Carol in Manchester two years ago, when I spoke as a clinician on a panel at what is believed to be the first conference dedicated to the issue of detransitioners (people who once presented themselves as transgender, but then decided to live in accordance with

Stella O’Malley

4 May 2021 · 15 min read

The White of the AI

The essence of AI is not white oppression, racism, sexism, and colonialism, it is the automation of mathematics and logic.

Sean Welsh

23 Apr 2021 · 9 min read

When Sons Become Daughters, Part IV: Parents of Transitioning Boys Speak Out on Their Own Suffering

The recent spike in trans self-identification has made things even more difficult for these parents, because gender-related body dysmorphia often appears alongside other kinds of physically focused anxieties.

Angus Fox

21 Apr 2021 · 17 min read

Australian Indigenous Activists Call Out White Feminism's Deadly Blind Spot

The very language we now use to discuss social justice and feminism is being subjected to American critical-race ideology and intersectional feminism.

Edie Wyatt

19 Apr 2021 · 8 min read

The Search to Explain Our Anxiety and Depression: Will ‘Long COVID’ Become the Next Gender Ideology?

Long COVID is just the latest example of the sort of idea that will become popular among this generation—and it certainly won’t be the last.

Jonathan Kay

15 Apr 2021 · 9 min read

When Sons Become Daughters, Part III: Parents of Transitioning Boys Speak Out on Their Own Suffering

Gay men and women fought long and hard to be accepted for who they are, often battling reactionary bigotry in the process.

Angus Fox

12 Apr 2021 · 18 min read

What Happened to Social Democracy?

Social democracy was a product of the inequities of the industrial era and the consequent solidarity that flourished among working people. This often resulted in greater justice for racial minorities.

Joel Kotkin

7 Apr 2021 · 14 min read

When Sons Become Daughters, Part II: Parents of Transitioning Boys Speak Out on Their Own Suffering

This isn’t to say that all causes of transgenderism are exogenous: the presence of neuro-atypical cognition comes up over and over, as does the sons’ process of discovering (or rejecting) their sexuality.

Angus Fox

6 Apr 2021 · 32 min read

When Sons Become Daughters: Parents of Transitioning Boys Speak Out on Their Own Suffering

Many of the young men in question have, in moments of candour, hinted that their motivations for transition are unrelated to actual gender dysphoria.

Angus Fox

2 Apr 2021 · 11 min read