Must Reads - Quillette (Page 4)

Fear of a White Joker: When Did the Left Stop Caring About Crime's Root Causes?

The key to reducing violence amongst any demographic is in ascertaining the specific attributes of violent individuals.

Samuel Forster

9 Oct 2019 · 6 min read

The Dangerous Life of an Anthropologist

It took a long time for Chagnon to acclimatize to the deep interior of the Amazon Rainforest and its unique threats.

Matthew Blackwell

5 Oct 2019 · 24 min read

From Homophobia to Anti-Bigotry: How Did Christians Become the New Pariahs?

When it comes to matters around sexuality a set of presumptions have been adopted which are proving quite as dogmatic as the notions they replaced.

Douglas Murray

4 Oct 2019 · 20 min read

My Book Defending Free Speech Has Been Pulled

If upsetting students or staff or the public is a reason for banning speech, all such discussion is at an end.

James Flynn

24 Sep 2019 · 7 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

David Gelernter is Wrong About Ditching Darwin

The last lesson of Gelernter’s piece is that while we shouldn’t judge someone’s arguments by their credentials alone, neither should we give unwarranted credence to those who have impressive credentials, particularly when they pronounce on a field in which they lack expertise.

Jerry A. Coyne

9 Sep 2019 · 11 min read

The Politics of Procreation

The trend towards post-familialism, a society in which the family and marriage are no longer central to society, will reshape our politics, economy, and society in the decades ahead.

Joel Kotkin

5 Sep 2019 · 9 min read

Free Speech Matters, Even When it’s Not Protected by the First Amendment

As chilling effects go, “I would speak out, but I don’t want to risk going to jail” is not all that different from “I would speak out, but I don’t want to risk losing my friends and my livelihood.”

Jason Richwine

18 Aug 2019 · 6 min read

China and the Difficulties of Dissent

As the world’s most powerful fascist regime, one would expect China to encounter great difficulties spreading its influence on liberal Australian university campuses, the student bodies of which are hypersensitive to right-wing teaching or teachers.

Simon Leitch

5 Aug 2019 · 14 min read

Tourist Journalism Versus the Working Class

A few days before the Fourth of July, British comic John Oliver used the pulpit of his US infotainment show, Last Week Tonight, to deliver a lengthy monologue about the depredations of Amazon.com. His specific complaint was that Amazon doesn’t treat its employees very well. According to Oliver,

Kevin Mims

19 Jul 2019 · 17 min read

Neutralizing Ngo: The Apologetics of Antifascist Street Violence

In a vein similar to Orwell’s lexicology of apologetics, criminological theory may help inform an understanding of how speech is used in defense of the indefensible at another level of analysis—that of rhetorical strategies.