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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

21 May 2024 · 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

28 Mar 2024 · 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

4 Oct 2023 · 16 min read

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

24 Aug 2023 · 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

9 May 2023 · 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

11 Feb 2022 · 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

13 Jan 2022 · 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

29 Aug 2021 · 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

3 Sep 2020 · 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

4 Oct 2019 · 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

3 Oct 2019 · 1 min read

Another Dream Deferred

Michael Shermer

8 Nov 2018 · 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

27 Oct 2018 · 8 min read

Representation and the Communitarianization of Cinema

Identity has become the locus of cultural value and representation the means of its transmission.

Oliver Whiskard

18 Oct 2018 · 10 min read

Deepities and the Politics of Pseudo-Profundity

The claim that “all politics is identity politics,” is not coherent. On one reading, it says something that’s true but irrelevant. And on another reading, it says something that’s false, but would be highly relevant if true.

Coleman Hughes

16 Oct 2018 · 9 min read