Diversity Debate - Quillette

Silicon Valley’s Cynical Treatment of Asian Engineers

Asian Americans have become an unfun topic in Silicon Valley corporate life. Certainly, they embarrass the diversity-obsessed gurus at Google and Facebook.

Kenny Xu

21 Jul 2021 · 7 min read

Almost Four Decades After Its Birth, The Diversity Industry Thrives on Its Own Failures

The increasing power of college diversity bureaucrats over academic affairs since the 1990s has been stunning.

Heather Mac Donald

12 Jul 2021 · 10 min read

As a Gay Child in a Christian Cult, I Was Taught to Hate Myself. Then I Joined the Church of Social Justice—and Nothing Changed

I grew up in the suburbs of Baltimore, Maryland, in a fundamentalist Christian community called The Lamb of God. What began in the mid-1970s as a small group of born-again hippies who played music, prayed together, and proselytized to whoever would listen about Jesus’s unconditional love and mercy, descended

Ben Appel

8 Jul 2021 · 42 min read

The 'Gender Supremacist' Threat to the Progressive Alliance: Part One of a Three-Part Series

Allan Stratton

22 Jun 2021 · 22 min read

Silicon Valley’s ‘Mission Protocol’ Revolution Is Beginning to Attain Critical Mass

They came to build the future and make money in the process.

Peter Savodnik

11 Jun 2021 · 8 min read

When Sons Become Daughters, Part VI: Asexuality, Intelligence, and the Trans Co-Option of Intersex Discourse

Puberty had been distressing and rough. He’d began to cut himself, and saw transition as a way out.

Angus Fox

7 Jun 2021 · 12 min read

No, Critical Race Theory Isn’t a New Civil Rights Movement. (Just the Opposite)

The difference between the civil rights movement and CRT isn’t one of degree or shade. It’s foundational.

Kenny Xu and Christian Watson

6 Jun 2021 · 7 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

Lesbians Aren’t Attracted to a Female ‘Gender Identity.’ We’re Attracted to Women

Two such orientations are heterosexuality and homosexuality. They are defined in terms of specific patterns of attraction.

Kathleen Stock

18 May 2021 · 13 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

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

Can You Teach Children to be Anti-Racist?

Just as we can teach children multiplication facts, we assume we can teach them the attitudes to the world that we want them to have.

Greg Ashman

13 Apr 2021 · 6 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

How Will Decolonizing the Curriculum Help the Poor and Dispossessed?

The path to progress is definitely not paved by destroying the epistemological framework bequeathed to us by the Enlightenment.

Samantha Jones

10 Apr 2021 · 11 min read

Georgetown's Cultural Revolution

The ranks of this new ruling class are refreshed by immigrant academics who come to understand themselves in the way progressivism understands them: as minorities who can also act victim-like if they want—a precious endowment in the cultural academic market.

Lama Abu-Odeh

9 Apr 2021 · 12 min read