Human Rights - Quillette (Page 6)

From Ancient Times to the Present: Transferring Guilt Makes a Mockery of Justice

Transferring guilt across generations from ancient ancestors to their heirs was highly convenient for religious authorities.

T.M. Murray

13 Oct 2017 · 12 min read

Women of the Dawoodi Bohra Muslim sect during a mass marriage function in Mumbai.

Does Female Genital Mutilation Have Health Benefits? The Problem with Medicalizing Morality

The mantra implies that if FGM did have health benefits, it wouldn’t be so bad after all.

Brian D Earp

15 Aug 2017 · 24 min read

Liberalism in Peril

One of the more perplexing idiosyncrasies of American political discussion is the tendency to conflate liberal and radical leftists.

Jamie Palmer

9 Aug 2017 · 11 min read

A Conservative Defence of Refugee Rights

We should be promoting a response that saves lives, defends human freedom, acknowledges our responsibilities, and honours our liberal history.

Charlie Peters

10 Mar 2017 · 6 min read

The al-Nusra Front pledged allegiance to al-Qaeda in 2013. Image of men waving black flag in Syria.

No, the Syrian Civil War is Not Like Jews fleeing Nazi Persecution

If one genuinely cares about the civilians who are suffering, they would want to stop the war at any cost, rather than fan the flames further.

Sumantra Maitra

23 Dec 2016 · 6 min read

Fleeing Theocracy: An Asylum Seeker's Defence of the West

With the ongoing migrant crisis emanating from the Muslim world and as an asylum seeker himself.

AR Devine

14 Oct 2016 · 7 min read

Doing Good Better — William MacAskill

MacAskill seeks to convince that not only are we in the developed world in a position to do a tremendous amount of good, but that our approach to doing good is itself tremendously important.

Keiran Harris

13 Sep 2016 · 6 min read

The Real Problem with Renaming Buildings on Campus: Logistics

Let’s face it: there is no logical, consistent way to approach renaming of buildings — especially when the protestors, themselves, are opposed to logical discourse.

Eva Glasrud

23 Aug 2016 · 4 min read

Free Speech and Islam — The Left Betrays the Most Vulnerable

The misguided progressives who denounce “Islamophobia” and turn a blind eye to the mistreatment of, say, women, gays, and adherents of other religions in Muslim communities or in Islamic countries constitute what Maajid Nawaz has dubbed the “regressive left.”

Jeffrey Tayler

5 May 2016 · 10 min read

Why Charlie Hebdo Was Right to Address the Brussels Attacks

Charlie Hebdo is suggesting that once individuals change their ways as a product of fear, they go down the road of sanctioning demands which impinge on other people’s rights.

Tehmina Kazi

8 Apr 2016 · 5 min read

Female Genital Cutting: Harm, Human Rights and the Possibility of a Sex-Neutral Approach

In this age of sexual equality and non-discrimination, it increasingly looks hypocritical and inconsistent to support both the legitimacy and legality of male circumcision and, at the same time, the unacceptability and illegality of FGC.

Robert Darby

3 Mar 2016 · 16 min read

Traitors to the Human Mind

As an aggressive activist strategy, the “pinkwashing” charge is shameless and shrewd. As moral reasoning, it is inane.

Jamie Palmer

3 Feb 2016 · 10 min read

Springtime for Demagogues

The problem isn’t that that is completely unwarranted, it might be, it might not be. The problem is that shielding us from the truth is utterly counter-productive.

David Paxton

20 Jan 2016 · 10 min read

Original Sin: The Sexual Motivation of Religious Extremists

This misguided reticence is a product of archaic cultural mores that make sex a thing of shame for women, but one of pride for men.

Janet L Factor

7 Jan 2016 · 15 min read

The Shame and the Disgrace of the Pro-Islamist Left

The dismal spectacle of radical queer activists, feminists, and sundry other progressives professing solidarity with Islamists is at once fascinating and enraging.

Jamie Palmer

6 Dec 2015 · 7 min read