Pride and Prejudice
The self-esteem movements that once deranged America’s school curricula have since deranged the realm of identity activism.
Steve Salerno
· 16 min read
identity politics
A collection of 22 posts
Racial Disparities and Child Protection
The politicisation of medicine has had terrible unintended consequences.
Naomi Schaefer Riley
· 8 min read
The Rise of a Mega-Movement
We have lost the words that we could once call upon to justify diversity of thoughts, desires, viewpoints, and policy preferences, as opposed to a diversity of demographic groups.
Russell Blackford
· 8 min read
Rescuing Identity Politics
Throughout his new book, Freddie deBoer resists the logical implications of his own argument. Can the "class-first" left actually put class first?
Sohale Mortazavi
· 13 min read
The Insidious Lie That We Can’t Understand Each Other
And a guide for how to productively push back against the identity trap.
Yascha Mounk
· 16 min read
On Political Hatred
On everything from Syrian refugees through Brexit and climate change to so-called gender-affirmative medicine, people take a totalizing approach to disagreement: either you agree with me, or you are despicable.
Holly Lawford-Smith
· 7 min read
Art’s Gender Hustle
Any critic unable to tell great from good, passable from poor, is incompetent. The critic who refuses to do so for ideological reasons is compromised.
Aidan Harte
· 10 min read
To Fight Wokeness, the GOP Should Embrace Immigrant Voters
The rise of ultra-progressive ideologies and the decline in patriotic sentiment are two broad cultural trends that worry American conservatives. Some may be tempted to imagine that these two phenomena are connected to immigration and the resulting ethnic and racial diversity—especially since opposition to immigration is common among conservatives
Alex Nowrasteh
· 7 min read
Should Philosophers Censor Kevin MacDonald?
According to the mainstream narrative about race, “white supremacy” is an all-controlling social force responsible for bad outcomes such as racial disparities. According to an alternative narrative popular on the far-Right, Jewish influence is a similarly powerful force, which explains outcomes disliked by those on the Right, such as multiculturalism
Nathan Cofnas
· 6 min read
Inflammatory Anti-Racism
The fear of being branded with one of the most deadly contemporary sins has generally ensured a pusillanimous collapse by corporations, institutions, and individuals.
John Lloyd
· 10 min read
PODCAST 108: Conservative Intellectual Douglas Murray on the Newly Emboldened Radical Left and Why the Silent Majority Needs to Speak Up
Author Douglas Murray talks about the new Afterword to The Madness of Crowds, his best-selling book about identity politics, and the events of the last six months which have accelerated the toxic trends he warned about.
Quillette, Douglas Murray
· 1 min read
From Homophobia to Anti-Bigotry: How Did Christians Become the New Pariahs?
When it comes to matters around sexuality a set of presumptions have been adopted which are proving quite as dogmatic as the notions they replaced.
Douglas Murray
· 20 min read
PODCAST 56: Douglas Murray talks about his new book The Madness of Crowds
Conservative intellectual Douglas Murray talks to Toby Young about the moral shortcomings of identity politics and the Marxist underpinnings of the Social Justice movement, both subjects of his new book The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race, and Identity.
Quillette
· 1 min read
Another Dream Deferred
Michael Shermer
· 6 min read
White Privilege Is Real, but Well-Meaning White Liberals Are Helping to Perpetuate It
Rather than whites being responsible for the perpetuation of these stereotypes—and, by extension, white privilege—they are maintained by all groups as they interact with each other.
Eric Kaufmann
· 8 min read