Identity - Quillette (Page 3)

The Accomplishments of Black Conservative Thought

As a black conservative man, I will add one final note. None of the points made in this essay—about the over-hyping of victimhood in modern America or the cultural issues in working-class black and white communities—is meant to imply that racism does not exist.

Wilfred Reilly

19 Jul 2021 · 7 min read

Historical Racism Is Not the Singular Cause of Racial Disparity

The popular vision of race in America seems to be incapable of breaking the gridlock that places the fate of black Americans in the hands of white society and then condemns that society to the wasteland of history.

Samuel Kronen

17 Jul 2021 · 25 min read

The Black Panthers march in New York City in protest of the trial of co-founder Huey P. Newton.

The Strange Rehabilitation of the Black Panther Party

Ronald Radosh

13 Jul 2021 · 18 min read

Almost Four Decades After Its Birth, The Diversity Industry Thrives on Its Own Failures

The increasing power of college diversity bureaucrats over academic affairs since the 1990s has been stunning.

Heather Mac Donald

12 Jul 2021 · 9 min read

As a Gay Child in a Christian Cult, I Was Taught to Hate Myself. Then I Joined the Church of Social Justice—and Nothing Changed

Ben Appel

8 Jul 2021 · 42 min read

How All My Politically Correct Bones Were Broken

Gregory Hansen

7 Jul 2021 · 21 min read

Standing up to the Social-Justice Mobs Within the Jewish Community

The white Jewish leaders who attended were told in advance that they were expected to come and listen—to be seen and not heard.

David Bernstein

5 Jul 2021 · 11 min read

On Victimhood and Culture—A Reply to Aaron Hanna

The idea that whites were in the house while blacks were sweating in the fields despising them is comfortable to us today as we look upon the context as a whole and justly revile it.

John McWhorter

30 Jun 2021 · 5 min read

The Bias Narrative versus the Development Narrative: Thinking About Persistent Racial Inequality in the United States

How can you expect population parity in an enterprise when there are some groups (Asians? Jews?) who are significantly overrepresented?

Glenn C. Loury

27 Jun 2021 · 26 min read

Standing Up to the Gender Ideologues: a Quillette Editorial

Once you sweep aside all the glitter showers, animated unicorns, and rainbow emojis, that is ultimately what gender supremacism is truly about.

Quillette

24 Jun 2021 · 9 min read

Juvenile convicts at work in the fields in Southern chain gang. Circa. 1903

The Limitations of Black Conservative Thought

Perhaps if black conservatives offered a more nuanced “vision” of the respective roles of individuals and governments in addressing racial inequality, the black community would be less receptive to the anti-racist narrative that conservatives so vehemently denounce.

Aaron Hanna

24 Jun 2021 · 34 min read

The 'Gender Supremacist' Threat to the Progressive Alliance: Part One of a Three-Part Series

Allan Stratton

22 Jun 2021 · 22 min read

Tocqueville and Us

People joining a political movement don’t usually consider its logic or consequences; they react to an injustice or grievance.

Eric Clifford Graf

21 Jun 2021 · 9 min read

When Sons Become Daughters: It’s Time to Admit That Reflexive ‘Affirmation’ Has Been a Mistake

Teenagers are being told that puberty is a time for them to make decisions about sex and gender, this at a time when they have none of the life experience that would be necessary to make such existential choices.

Angus Fox

18 Jun 2021 · 16 min read

Why Is the Society for American Archaeology Promoting Indigenous Creationism?

The most expansive interpretations of NAGPRA’s provisions now serve to place Indigenous oral traditions, which typically include religious stories, on equal footing with traditional forms of scientific evidence such as DNA analysis.

Elizabeth Weiss and James W. Springer

13 Jun 2021 · 15 min read