Identity - Quillette (Page 4)

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 · 16 min read

How the (Much Maligned) Mongol Horde Helped Create Russian Civilization

The Jochid khans considered the Russian principalities part of their dominion.

Marie Favereau

11 Jun 2021 · 9 min read

Are Activists Protecting Asians from Hate—or Protecting Their Narrative of White Supremacy from Criticism?

But often it seems that means and end have become reversed, and that these crimes now serve as a prop in the larger ideological campaign against our supposedly white-supremacy-saturated culture—a campaign that Asians themselves are now being pressured to join.

Hai Di Nguyen

8 Jun 2021 · 11 min read

When Sons Become Daughters, Part VI: Asexuality, Intelligence, and the Trans Co-Option of Intersex Discourse

Puberty had been distressing and rough. He’d began to cut himself, and saw transition as a way out.

Angus Fox

7 Jun 2021 · 12 min read

No, Critical Race Theory Isn’t a New Civil Rights Movement. (Just the Opposite)

The difference between the civil rights movement and CRT isn’t one of degree or shade. It’s foundational.

Kenny Xu and Christian Watson

6 Jun 2021 · 7 min read

Sorry, Demi Lovato: You Can't Fight Sexism by Opting Out of Womanhood

It’s true that hair is a definitive socially-constructed characteristic of femininity (and masculinity) in many cultures.

Mary Kate Fain

31 May 2021 · 9 min read

Breaking the Union

The SNP has been in government in Scotland since 2007, and the determination and political will with which it has pursued independence has been impressive.

John Lloyd

29 May 2021 · 9 min read

Black Lives Matter and the Psychology of Progressive Fatalism

There is nothing wrong with elevating anti-racism in one’s own life. But there is something wrong with imposing one’s moral reality upon total strangers.

Samuel Kronen

28 May 2021 · 18 min read

Gender Activists Co-Opted British Columbia’s Courts. Meet the Woman Who Stood Up to Them

Under this policy, declaring one’s pronouns is required when people introduce themselves in court whether they present in keeping with their biological sex or not.

Karin Litzcke

19 May 2021 · 16 min read

Lesbians Aren’t Attracted to a Female ‘Gender Identity.’ We’re Attracted to Women

Two such orientations are heterosexuality and homosexuality. They are defined in terms of specific patterns of attraction.

Kathleen Stock

18 May 2021 · 13 min read

Debate and Disinformation: The Ugly Quarrel Over the UK Government’s Race Report

Most critics have instead based their criticism on the demonstrably false accusation that the report “denied the existence of institutional racism in the UK.”

Damian Counsell

17 May 2021 · 24 min read

Masochistic Nationalism—A Review

Post-colonial guilt in Britain and other formerly imperial Western powers can produce similar displays of self-flagellation and denial.

Rumy Hasan

15 May 2021 · 7 min read

When Sons Become Daughters, Part V: The Links Between Trans Identity, Gifted Minds, Categorical Thinking—And Anime

Anime offers vividly coloured worlds, in which giant-eyed kids and anthropomorphized animals conduct heroic journeys against beautifully detailed backdrops.

Angus Fox

11 May 2021 · 17 min read

Keep Social-Justice Indoctrination Out of the Therapist’s Office

One of the earliest stains on the legacy of psychiatry, my medical specialty, dates to the American 1840 census, when the US government first began systematically collecting information on “idiocy” and “insanity.” According to the results, the purported rates of mental illness among free blacks in northern cities were deemed

Sally Satel

7 May 2021 · 11 min read

Identity and the Self in 'Hamlet'

“Who’s there?” These are the two words that begin Shakespeare’s Hamlet. It is primarily this question, and not “To be or not to be?” with which Hamlet wrestles throughout the play. The two words are spoken from one soldier to another; Elsinore’s castle guards are on the

Marilyn Simon

6 May 2021 · 13 min read