Culture Wars - Quillette (Page 8)

‘Nobody Likes the Other Guy’: On the Road With Donald Trump’s Diehards

There were a lot of Hispanic people there, which seems an underreported story.

Stephen Elliott

2 Nov 2020 · 20 min read

Jack Turban’s Dangerous Campaign to Smear Ethical Psychotherapy as Anti-Trans ‘Conversion Therapy’

A number of additional data irregularities in the USTS raise further questions about the quality of the data.

Roberto D’Angelo, Ema Syrulnik, Sasha Ayad, Lisa Marchiano, Dianna Theadora Kenny, and Patrick Clarke / Lisa Marchiano / Sasha Ayad

1 Nov 2020 · 19 min read

How The Intercept Abandoned Its Truth-Seeking Mission—And Lost Its Best Journalist

In the case of the media, we’ve had a running social experiment underway since 2015 that helps us answer this question.

Zaid Jilani

30 Oct 2020 · 9 min read

From “Who Gets What?” to “Who Are We?”

The culture wars revolve around highly charged, deeply personal issues that are exceedingly difficult to compromise upon.

Jonathon P. Sine

27 Oct 2020 · 15 min read

How Availability Cascades are Shaping our Politics

Two components make up an availability cascade: an informational cascade and a reputational cascade.

Vincent Harinam and David Kopel

26 Oct 2020 · 11 min read

Reflections on Solzhenitsyn's Harvard Address

This imbalance between rights and responsibilities is not only restricted to individuals, it is also affecting our governmental, societal, and cultural institutions.

Sergiu Klainerman

24 Oct 2020 · 12 min read

Slack Wars: Corporate America’s Woke Insurgency

Labor leaders no longer even pretend they can staunch the layoffs, and so their focus increasingly has turned to questions of editorial direction and ideology, over which they still believe they can exert leverage through the back door of social media.

Quillette

16 Oct 2020 · 10 min read

Forget What Gender Activists Tell You. Here’s What Medical Transition Looks Like

Medical transition, such as the kind I went through, can enhance an illusion that helps some gender dysphoric individuals navigate the world with more comfort.

Scott Newgent

6 Oct 2020 · 8 min read

A Poor Farrier's Journey to Political Sanity

I'm still not immune to violent political fantasies, especially when I become angry at scenes of Left-wing protests in Portland, Seattle, and other cities.

Austin Schue

5 Oct 2020 · 13 min read

Weaponizing Words: Language and Oppression

Language does not form our view of the world and its inhabitants in any meaningful sense.

Robert D. King

2 Oct 2020 · 10 min read

The Misguided Campaign Against Journalistic Objectivity

Even historians, who have many years to consider the object of their study, inhabit “the twilight of probability.” How can those journalists tasked with writing “history’s first draft” imagine that they know which way true “harm” lies?

Lorraine Clark

1 Oct 2020 · 7 min read

Radicalized Antiracism on Campus—as Seen from the Computer Lab

The University of Washington, like most schools, tracks the performance of student groups as part of its effort to enhance diversity and reduce inequality.

Stuart Reges

29 Sep 2020 · 15 min read

Rallying to Protect Admissions Standards at America’s Best Public High School

The activists seeking to eliminate TJ’s meritocratic admissions systems attribute this latter result to systemic racism.

Asra Q. Nomani and Glenn Miller

23 Sep 2020 · 10 min read

Then They Came for Beethoven

Beethoven is a truly odd target for progressive critics, because his views on geopolitics are known to have been, by the highly regressive standards of his time, quite progressive.

Daniel Lelchuk

19 Sep 2020 · 7 min read

International Scholars Must Resist the American Campaign to Inject Racial Tribalism Into Science

We retain the belief that, in supposedly pluralistic societies, everyone is entitled to their own opinions. We urge other scientists not to follow the American example, and to resist the campaign to racialize science.

Andreas Bikfalvi and Marcel Kuntz

21 Aug 2020 · 8 min read