Long Read - Quillette (Page 11)

The Libertarian Case for Rejecting Meat Consumption

The argument that avoiding meat would deny animals lives worth living faces further problems.

Andy Lamey

27 Jan 2020 · 20 min read

Denial and Defamation: The ITN-LM Libel Trial Revisited (II)

The more someone invests in a lie, the more painful it becomes to renounce.

Jamie Palmer

1 Nov 2019 · 35 min read

Denial and Defamation: The ITN-LM Libel Trial Revisited (I)

And those who continue to protest the trial’s outcome invariably do so as part of an implicit—and frequently explicit—attempt to invalidate the reckoning with Living Marxism’s record of defamation and denial that the trial was intended to provide.

Jamie Palmer

1 Nov 2019 · 33 min read

Europe’s Virtues Will Be Its Undoing

Ever since, all of Europe—the East as well as the West—has carried the burden of Nazi guilt, as others would have us bear the guilt of North American slavery and Jim Crow.

Pascal Bruckner

14 Sep 2019 · 25 min read

The Drayton Icon and Intellectual Vice

Nevertheless, Drayton’s diatribe does reveal something important—not much about me, something about him, but mostly about the vices that fester in certain reaches of our universities, which serve to undermine rational dialogue and public norms of liberal civility.

Nigel Biggar

27 Aug 2019 · 19 min read

Canada's Treatment of Indigenous Peoples Was Cruel. But Calling It an Ongoing 'Genocide' Is Wrong

The crime of genocide is typically investigated and litigated with the goal of holding genocidaires accountable for their crimes.

David Mount

11 Jul 2019 · 19 min read

A MeToo Mob Tried to Destroy My Life as a Poet. This Is How I Survived

Poetry is made of breath before any sound, any syllable, is uttered . The inhalation is the first word — and reclaiming my craft taught me how to breathe again.

Joseph Massey

28 Jun 2019 · 19 min read

Cornell students emerging from Willard Straight Hall after the takeover.

The Fog of Youth: The Cornell Student Takeover, 50 Years On

The ethical shortcomings of the 1969 Cornell student rebellion, which appear so glaring today, were anything but clear to us radical activists at the time.

Tony Fels

25 Jun 2019 · 27 min read

Sedentary Revolutionaries: Two Academics Who Joined the Nazi Party

No private personal ambition is involved; he simply wishes to obey a sovereign whose legitimacy he will not question.

Jaspreet Singh Boparai

21 Jun 2019 · 20 min read

A Victory for Female Athletes Everywhere

When we are told that 46, XY males with DSD who identify as female are simply “women with hyperandrogenism,” or “women with high T,” we aren’t fooled.

Doriane Lambelet Coleman

3 May 2019 · 25 min read

Lessons in Forgiveness, from a Bicycle Thief

Nothing is again simple, but everything is clear. This is the great lesson of empathy. We are all the bicycle thief.

Brad Cran

29 Apr 2019 · 24 min read

Here Comes the Story of the Hurricane

The subject of Bob Dylan’s famous 1976 protest song was probably guilty.

Lona Manning

6 Apr 2019 · 26 min read

An Interview With Lisa Littman, Who Coined the Term ‘Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria’

This research explores, through the reports of parents, a phenomenon whereby teens and young adults who did not exhibit childhood signs of gender issues appeared to suddenly identify as transgender.

Jonathan Kay

19 Mar 2019 · 18 min read

The French Genocide That Has Been Air-Brushed From History

For the most influential historians who held positions of power in major French institutions, the French Revolution was not a research topic but an origin myth—the heart of their secular faith’s cosmology.

Jaspreet Singh Boparai

10 Mar 2019 · 18 min read

How Ed Schools Became a Menace to Higher Education

To anyone acquainted with the history and quality of American ed schools, this should come as no surprise.

Lyell Asher

6 Mar 2019 · 23 min read