Beware Cultural Drift Thoughts on modernity’s monoculture mistake. Robin Hanson 11 Apr 2024 · 12 min read
Slavery and Steam The dangers of forfeiting societal sustainability. David Foster 21 Jul 2022 · 7 min read
A World of Waste, Stripped of Transcendence: James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’ at 100 Few novels become institutions, to have departments rigged up around them, whole constituencies and spheres of scholarship, as works of lifelong study, fascination and confusion. Ulysses, whose publication centenary will be observed on February 2nd, is one such book. Like Marx’s Kapital, Joyce’s door-stopping opus has kept academics Jared Marcel Pollen 31 Jan 2022 · 13 min read
The Need for a Culture of Achievement Rand’s style often caused her to be misunderstood and dismissed as some kind of Nietzschean. Robert Tracinski 5 Jan 2022 · 12 min read
‘We Never Looked Back’ Education was divided along confessional lines into Catholic and Protestant school systems; for these purposes, Jews were designated Protestant. Ruth R. Wisse 27 Nov 2021 · 15 min read
The Push for Equity in Education Hurts Vulnerable Children the Most Implementation of newly popular equity policies will hinder the learning of many students before those policies are weakened or reversed. Russell T. Warne 25 Nov 2021 · 13 min read
Culture, the Humanities, and the Collapse of the Grand Narratives The socio-economic arguments are based on data indicating that the number of humanities graduates has declined rapidly since the financial crisis in 2008. Sara Cederberg 25 Mar 2021 · 10 min read
Against Cultural Protectionism We are living in a time where the old models are changing, where the access to new styles and ideas is greater than ever. Leo Nicolletto 9 Dec 2020 · 13 min read
What the Right Gets Wrong about Social Justice Culture Social justice culture is a moral culture, like honor or dignity culture. It’s also a political ideology, like Marxism or liberalism. Bradley Campbell 20 Jul 2020 · 9 min read
Protecting Our Cultural Commons from Opportunism The reason why commons-dilemma problems are so hard to solve is that they are the result of perfectly rational behavior. David C. Rose 22 Feb 2020 · 8 min read
NARRATED: Age of Amnesia Greg Ellis reads Age of Amnesia, Joel Kotkin’s essay on how the West is in danger of forgetting its own history. It was published in Quillette on July 15, 2019. Quillette 30 Aug 2019 · 1 min read
Immigration Is Changing America Less than You Think The enormous level of immigration to the United States has actually done little to change the overall demographics of the country over the past 20 years. John A. Litwinski 24 Jul 2019 · 6 min read
Women Needed a Magazine that Doesn't Lie to Them. So I Started One Women’s publications have tried to convince women they can be just like men, instead of celebrating femininity and what makes women wonderfully unique. Brittany Martinez 20 Feb 2019 · 6 min read
Postmodern Philosophy is a Debating Strategy The Foucauldian method, invoking a hermeneutic of suspicion, works by unveiling or demystifying the relations of power that constitute claims to truth. Galen Watts 17 Feb 2019 · 7 min read
What Happened to Gawker? An Interview with Ryan Holiday Ryan Holiday’s book 'Conspiracy' tells the story of Peter Thiel’s decade-long campaign against Gawker Media. Stephen Elliott 13 Dec 2018 · 16 min read