Culture Wars - Quillette (Page 7)

An 'Anti-Racist' Mob Set Its Sights on Humble ‘Squampton.’ Here’s How the Town Fought Back

Though the population is largely white, Squamish has steadily become more diverse in recent years, and now boasts a thriving Sikh community.

Brian Vincent

20 Dec 2020 · 18 min read

Like It Or Not, Keira Bell Has Opened Up a Real Conversation About Gender Dysphoria

In the debate about transitioning children who experience gender dysphoria, Ms. Bell’s case represents an important turning point.

Quillette

18 Dec 2020 · 9 min read

On Activist Scholarship: An Interview with Helen Pluckrose

The universities are also where rigorous research, science, and valuable knowledge production continues to happen, and it is the universities we will need to push back at this and self-correct.

Jason D. Hill

16 Dec 2020 · 8 min read

My White Privilege Didn’t Save Me. But God Did

Because of my experiences, and the newly fashionable denial of reality being promoted by progressives, I find myself sitting with the politically homeless.

Edie Wyatt

7 Dec 2020 · 12 min read

My Journey from Born Again Christian to the Church of Woke—And Halfway Back Again

How could we even conceive of something like social justice without the moral framework offered by religion?

Will Johnson

6 Dec 2020 · 11 min read

Resisting the Mourner's Veto

Reasonable debate and discussion then becomes impossible as activists make unfalsifiable but furiously emotive claims about alleged threats to their safety and wellbeing amid much weeping and claims of exhaustion and mental fragility.

Christopher J. Ferguson

3 Dec 2020 · 8 min read

The Flawed Reasoning of the Techlash and Progressive Movements

But painting the world as a struggle between victims and oppressors leaves little room for a careful discussion of costs and benefits, the unforeseen consequences of intervention, and potential government failure.

Dirk Auer

3 Dec 2020 · 7 min read

Reinventing Racism—A Review

Beyond dismantling the ideas in White Fragility, Church leverages his background in economics to forward a more comprehensive framework around privilege.

Samuel Kronen

30 Nov 2020 · 7 min read

I’m a Professor from an Immigrant Family. Please Stop Telling Me That My University Is Racist

What’s worse, anyone who points out the nonsensical and performative aspects of these presidential letters will be gaslit for his troubles—this, in a supposed citadel of logic and learning.

Theodore Pennington

29 Nov 2020 · 7 min read

Robin DiAngelo’s Misreading of Michel Foucault

It should not be controversial to say that knowledge can be exploited by dominant vested interests.

Jonathan Church

25 Nov 2020 · 5 min read

Victimhood or Development?

It’s a very interesting development in the black community and it’s a race to break that ugly symbiosis between white guilt and black development.

Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, Shelby Steele and Eli Steele

19 Nov 2020 · 32 min read

Intellectual Freedom and the Culture Wars—A Review

Most instructors on campus who revealed their political views also showed themselves to be a part of the Left

Clayton Trutor

16 Nov 2020 · 8 min read

Towards Shared Identities

Fighting identities is the true meaning of the culture wars.

Seth Chalmer

12 Nov 2020 · 8 min read

R.M. Vaughan (1965–2020): A Beautiful Mind Silently Extinguished in a Time of Fear

We were Oscar Wilde’s great-grand-nephews, dandy aesthetes obsessed as much with the curl of our hair as with art or politics.

Sky Gilbert

6 Nov 2020 · 8 min read

For Five Months, BLM Protestors Trashed America's Cities. After the Election, Things May Only Get Worse

Common themes in the emerging constellation of radical groups include apocalyptic beliefs, a “utopian” political agenda, martyr narratives, and a cell-based organizational structure.

Mike Gonzalez

3 Nov 2020 · 9 min read