Identity - Quillette

What Is Elizabeth Hoover Apologizing For?

So long as Hoover’s scholarship has met the standards expected of her, it is not clear that she’s done anything wrong.

Ilana Redstone

15 May 2023 · 6 min read

Sexual and Gender Identity: Four Competing Paradigms

If we are going to expend so much effort on the topic of gender and sexual identity, we should be clear and rigorous in how we think about it.

William Vex

11 Apr 2023 · 15 min read

Race and State

The emerging racial state promises no real progress for most minorities while deepening ethnic divides and undermining the basis for democratic self-rule.

Joel Kotkin

3 Apr 2023 · 13 min read

Canada’s Altruistic Apartheid

Sanctioned racial essentialism for Aboriginals, mandatory multiculturalism for everyone else.

George Case

29 Mar 2023 · 9 min read

Fables of the Deconstruction

Rejection may sting. But it’s not the same as being ripped off.

George Case

10 Jan 2023 · 7 min read

The Radicalization of the Film Canon

Sight and Sound’s 2022 poll is a sign of the times.

Adrian Nguyen

18 Dec 2022 · 12 min read

Gay Not Queer

Gay identities are based on biological sex; gender identities erase biological sex and replace it with gender.

Peter Gajdics

25 Nov 2022 · 10 min read

The Limits of Radical Protest

Those fighting for social change today would do well to heed Bayard Rustin’s advice about how to build sustainable and effective political movements.

Matt Johnson

5 Aug 2022 · 12 min read

Against False Privilege

One of the biggest blunders of modern activism is the promotion of guilt and the demand for false privilege.

Niamh Jiménez

30 Jul 2022 · 8 min read

Voters and Quotas: Crunch Time for Chile’s Millennial Revolutionaries

The proposal for a radical identitarian constitution has set off a popular counterrevolution in the run-up to a fateful referendum on September 4th.

Rasmus Sonderriis

8 Jul 2022 · 17 min read

Progressivism, Sexuality, and Mental Illness

Is contemporary liberal-left culture producing greater mental distress?

Eric Kaufmann

14 Jun 2022 · 12 min read

Diversity and Its Discontents

The public conversation about demographic change is hypocritical and destructive.

Bo Winegard

3 Jun 2022 · 11 min read

Each year as America toggles from Black History Month to March Madness, I find myself thinking of the Nigerian student who walked into my college office some years ago at around this time. This brilliant young man and aspiring academic told me of his discomfort with Black History Month, and

Steve Salerno

28 Mar 2022 · 10 min read

AWOL Black Fathers

When my mother called me in from play one afternoon to meet the man seated in our living room, her introduction was redundant—I immediately knew who he was. And, right off, I did not like him. His absence had been a painful matter in my life. The house that

John Washington

21 Mar 2022 · 13 min read

How Social Justice Killed Anti-Racism

One of the early signs of trouble for the British anti-racism movement was a tweet sent by Lee Jasper in April 2013 [https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/04/07/lee-jasper-race-relations_n_3032829.html] , in which he declared that black people are incapable of being racist, and offered to publicly

Jerry Barnett

9 Feb 2022 · 11 min read