Human Rights - Quillette (Page 4)

How Prophetic Was Gattaca?

Gattaca was prophetic, but not quite in the way Niccol intended.

8 Jul 2019 · 5 min read

Stonewall's LGBT Guidance is Limiting the Free Speech of Gender Critical Academics

But that’s the thing about freedom of speech: you tend not to notice it being curtailed until it’s your speech that’s being restricted.

Kathleen Stock

6 Jul 2019 · 12 min read

'The Guarded Gate' Review: Elites and Their Eugenics Projects

The sordid and shameful history of eugenics in the U.S. should be better known, as should the role of another prominent American institution that was central to the development of eugenics ideology.

Jack B. Nimble

17 Jun 2019 · 15 min read

It’s Time for Progressives to Protect Women Instead of Pronouns

Many liberals—including feminists and lesbians—have been cowardly in calling out this noxious phenomenon, for fear of being called transphobes.

Julie Bindel

14 Jun 2019 · 6 min read

Men (and, less often, women as well) across societies all over the world have used violence in an attempt to control women’s reproductive outcomes and limit the choices available to them, and in many circumstances, men have benefited from doing so.

William Buckner

9 May 2019 · 15 min read

How Intersectionalism Betrays the World’s Muslim Women

The progress of Muslim reformers, dissidents and apostates is hindered by leftists that use cultural relativism as a basis for their activism.

Omayma Mohamed

28 Apr 2019 · 9 min read

How Social Justice Ideologues Hijacked a Legal Regulator

Speech is unconscionable regardless of the principles a person is made to parrot. Today, we are being told to promote “equality, diversity and inclusion.

Murray Klippenstein with Bruce Pardy

11 Feb 2019 · 11 min read

The West's Betrayal of Iranian Dissidents

Iranians who yearn for democracy and an open, prosperous society at peace with the world are met with overwhelming indifference from the West’s media and political leaders.

Mariam Memarsadeghi

20 Jan 2019 · 10 min read

What Does the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Mean Today?

The UDHR’s crucial claim is that the question of man’s nature is not merely academic or philosophical. It has moral consequences.

Alexandra Hudson

11 Dec 2018 · 15 min read

Orwell and the Anti-Totalitarian Left in the Age of Trump

No matter how bitterly they attack one another, they still share many of the same principles and enemies—a fact that should be just as clear to them today as it was a few years ago.

Matt Johnson

9 Dec 2018 · 16 min read

The Betrayal of Asia Bibi

Bibi’s human rights must surely come first and, as Chishti asserts, Britain has a moral responsibility stand up for “core values” of religious freedom and justice.

Hardeep Singh

21 Nov 2018 · 8 min read

Upholding the Jihadist's Veto

The Court’s decision therefore constitutes a clear and present danger to the emerging consensus that blasphemy laws are incompatible with international human rights law.

Jacob Mchangama and Flemming Rose

30 Oct 2018 · 7 min read

Asian-Americans' Unrequited Love of Harvard

Asian-Americans don’t necessarily think of themselves as “victims” of Harvard’s racist policies. They’re more concerned with the idea of merit—they want their admission to be judged on their resume of accomplishments, not their race.

Kenny Xu

13 Oct 2018 · 13 min read

Righteous Among the Nations: The Rescued Tribe of Colonel Jose Arturo Castellanos Contreras

With the release of their extraordinary documentary film The Rescue, Alvaro and his younger brother Boris haven’t just faced up to their clan’s history. They have turned it into high art.

Geoffrey Clarfield

11 Oct 2018 · 6 min read

Purity or Universalism?

The main problem with the quest for purity is that it is fine in one’s own home or church but it becomes a problem in the public square, which—by virtue of being inherently diverse and competitive—is configured to resist the wish to be pure.

Sami J. Karam

27 Sep 2018 · 10 min read