Culture Wars - Quillette (Page 6)

Sexual Assault and the Taboo of Sound Advice

Yes, your car might be stolen even if you lock it and take the keys, but does that mean that no one should remind us to lock our cars and take our keys?

Steve Salerno

7 Feb 2021 · 6 min read

‘More Weight’: An Academic’s Guide to Surviving Campus Witch Hunts

When you are being targeted by aggression, hostility, and hatred, a natural impulse is to want to fight back as hard as possible, and exact revenge.

Dorian S. Abbot

5 Feb 2021 · 8 min read

Scottish Nationalists in Turmoil

The trans argument shows how easily it may be rocked back on its heels. Neither of the two women at loggerheads are transphobic on any but an extreme definition; they merely differ about how easy it should be to register a sex change.

John Lloyd

4 Feb 2021 · 10 min read

First, Do No Harm: A New Model for Treating Trans-Identified Children

Individuals with a fragile ego structure also tend to be prone toward black-and-white thinking, which leads them to concrete rather than symbolic solutions.

Susan Evans and Marcus Evans

4 Feb 2021 · 16 min read

China and the Question of Taiwan

In modern-day China, nationalism is at its strongest when dealing with the idea—almost an article of religious faith—that the independent island nation of Taiwan is in fact a Chinese state and must be unified with the mainland as soon as possible.

Aaron Sarin

2 Feb 2021 · 13 min read

Why Is Biden Trying to Punish Charter Schools for Their Success?

Charter schools are publicly funded institutions that charge no fees and have more flexibility than regular government schools in how they manage their affairs and run their programs.

Greg Ashman

29 Jan 2021 · 7 min read

Stop Sensationalizing the Threat of Right-Wing Political Violence

Terrorism is ultimately a weapon of the weak. By engaging in threat inflation, we expand the power and prestige of terrorists by allowing them to be more influential than they otherwise might be.

Zaid Jilani

28 Jan 2021 · 7 min read

Visions Are Sublime; Social Reform Is Messy

The Democratic party’s radical wing, which mostly set aside its many differences with Biden during his contest with Trump, wants a more rapid pace of change than the 78-year old centrist would wish.

John Lloyd

26 Jan 2021 · 10 min read

Wikipedia Turns Twenty

An expansive free encyclopedia is impossible without an army of volunteer writers.

Adam Wakeling

25 Jan 2021 · 9 min read

Politics vs. Mental Health: How the Culture War Blocked My Healing Process

No matter what a person’s skin color or ideology, encouraging them to feel ashamed about who they are is never conducive to good mental health.

Ian Dempsey

21 Jan 2021 · 7 min read

Beating Up Boomer

Reviews of A Generation of Sociopaths: How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America by Bruce Cannon Gibney, Hachette, 465 pages (March 2018) OK Boomer, Let’s Talk: How My Generation Got Left Behind by Jill Filipovic, Atria/One Signal, 336 pages (August 2020) Boomers: The Men and Women Who Promised Freedom

Kevin Mims

20 Jan 2021 · 16 min read

Three Plane Rides and the Quest for a Just Society

It is the willingness to commit such sacrilege that distinguishes the reactions of Sue and hooks from that of King.

Aaron Preston

17 Jan 2021 · 15 min read

Social-Media Oligopolists Are the New Railroad Barons. It's Time for Washington to Treat Them Accordingly

In American First-Amendment jurisprudence, Brandenburg’s name is now a byword for the test that is used in assessing the validity of laws against inflammatory speech—especially speech that can lead to the sort of hateful mob activity that played out at the US Capitol last Wednesday.