Dependent Ideologies and the Illusion of Revolution
Liberal democracy, for all its flaws and contradictions, was the fruit of slow-growing wisdom.
Jonathan Emerson-Pierce
· 7 min read
Ideology
A collection of 11 posts
Investigating the Academy
In a recent speech to University of Toronto scholars, a Quillette editor explained why many of his fellow journalists are reluctant to report on administrative scandals at Canadian universities.
Jonathan Kay
· 15 min read
Lessons from Hannah Arendt on Arresting Our ‘Flight From Reality’
Fascism, communism, and transhumanism all lure us into rejecting the real human condition in favor of ideological constructs.
Roger Berkowitz
· 13 min read
Academic Ideologues Are Corrupting STEM. The Silent Liberal Majority Must Fight Back
We need to break the spell of illiberal ideology, and come back to our collective senses—to stop self-censoring in fear of the mob and excusing nonsense in the name of political allyship, and to start defending the values of pluralism, humanism, and democracy.
Anna Krylov and Jay Tanzman
· 10 min read
Noble Intentions, Counterproductive Results: The Tragic Inefficacy of a Deontological Policy Approach
The blood shed for this right matters little to certain factions of the contemporary Left.
Scott Newman
· 9 min read
Studying the True Face of Gender Ideology
While many of us are lazy and gullible in our ideological commitments, pledging allegiance to faddish notions so that we may be seen as enlightened, such vanities tend to fall away once we see evidence that proves we’ve been duped.
Jonathan Kay
· 16 min read
The Search to Explain Our Anxiety and Depression: Will ‘Long COVID’ Become the Next Gender Ideology?
Long COVID is just the latest example of the sort of idea that will become popular among this generation—and it certainly won’t be the last.
Jonathan Kay
· 9 min read
Quillette Podcast 15 – Michael Shermer on Holocaust denialism, Social Justice Warriors and how to debunk toxic ideologies
Quillette‘s Jonathan Kay talks to Skeptic editor Michael Shermer about Holocaust denialism, Social Justice Warriors, the importance of bringing reason and science to bear on political debates, and why it is that smart people believe dumb things.
Quillette
· 1 min read
How Ideologues Captured the Canadian Publishing Industry
Publishing is not a career one chooses for the money.
Tara Nykyforiak
· 12 min read
The Ideology of Corbynism
As they say in the preface, “This is the first book that sets out to take Corbynism seriously and critically as a semi-coherent set of ideas.”
Tomiwa Owolade
· 6 min read
A Glimpse Into the Ideological Monoculture of Literary New York
According to a newly released analysis of U.S. survey data, only 8% of Americans hold views that mark them as “progressive activists”—versus 92% who may be classified as traditional liberals, moderates, conservatives or “politically disengaged.”
Matthew Binder
· 7 min read