Identity - Quillette (Page 2)

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 · 12 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, in which he declared that black people are incapable of being racist, and offered to publicly debate anybody who disagreed. I offered to debate him, as did a

Jerry Barnett

9 Feb 2022 · 11 min read

Identity Mania

A review of The Identity Myth by David Swift. Constable, 320 pages (June 2022). In recent decades, anxieties afflicting Western democracies have arisen from new beliefs and conflicts about how citizens relate to each other—their relative status in society, notions of mutual respect, and the patterns that the past

John Lloyd

9 Feb 2022 · 7 min read

Why Culture Matters for Racial Disparities

It has become virtually axiomatic among progressives that any factor invoked to explain racial disparities which is not “structural” reflects a racist belief.

Jonathan Church

7 Sep 2021 · 19 min read

Who Will Save Us From Racist AI?

The researchers analyzed multiple databases and the findings were striking—the ML models were able to predict self-reported race (classified as Asian, black, and white) with astonishing precision.

Zachary Robert Caverley

15 Aug 2021 · 9 min read

The Incoherence of Gender Ideology

To understand the coherence and moral import of transgender rights claims, we must first define what it is that we mean by “transgender.”

Michael Robillard

4 Aug 2021 · 21 min read

When You’re Diagnosed with Autism—by TikTok

It’s notable that no-one on TikTok is diagnosing themselves with schizophrenia or severe personality disorders such as antisocial and borderline.

Lucy Kross Wallace

3 Aug 2021 · 9 min read

Life as a Stand-Up Comic Can Be Brutal. ‘Safe Space’ Call-out Culture Is Making it Unbearable

“Cancel culture” has become a trendy term in recent years. But public shaming has always existed. It’s a social tool, and like all tools can be used for good or ill.

Jessica Pigeau

1 Aug 2021 · 35 min read

Gender Transition and Desistance in Teenage Girls: Two Psychotherapeutic Case Studies

Detransitioners and desisters can also feel angry at psychiatric and medical specialists, who they understandably believe have not adequately assessed their motivations for requesting medical intervention.

Susan Evans and Marcus Evans

30 Jul 2021 · 27 min read

Charles Murray's 'Facing Reality'—A Review

Facing Reality attempts to force into view data that many Americans would rather not acknowledge.

Razib Khan

29 Jul 2021 · 12 min read

Rescuing the Radicalized Discourse on Sex and Gender: Part Two of a Three-Part Series

Our choice of words affects the way we think. That’s why we spend so much time fighting over which terms to use, whether it’s “undocumented immigrants” versus “illegal aliens,” “foetuses” versus “unborn babies,” or “militants” versus “terrorists.” In recent years, the question of word choice has figured prominently

Allan Stratton

27 Jul 2021 · 17 min read