Must Reads - Quillette (Page 5)

Ideology and Facts Collide at Oberlin College

The recently concluded libel trial involving Oberlin College offered a demonstration of this phenomenon on the part of both the defendants and much of the media covering the case.

Daniel McGraw

20 Jun 2019 · 15 min read

What Do the Oligarchs Have in Mind for Us?

What has not been discussed nearly as much is the end game of the oligarchs.

Joel Kotkin

19 Jun 2019 · 10 min read

On Its 70th Anniversary, Nineteen Eighty-Four Still Feels Important and Inspiring

Nineteen-Eighty Four, whose first publication took place 70 years ago today, is itself a sort of anti-novel, one that undermines its own dramatic tension in a way that might now be described as postmodern.

Jonathan Kay

8 Jun 2019 · 15 min read

When the Authorities Tell You to Dissent

And I was granted the chance to dip into a strange emerging culture, one whose existence I probably would not have accepted if I hadn’t seen it for myself. It seems the doomsayers are sometimes correct.

Zachary Snowdon Smith

22 May 2019 · 8 min read

Bearing Witness: My Journey Out of Mormonism

Integrity requires each of us to bear witness with honest hearts.

Spencer Case

13 May 2019 · 15 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

Meaning Matters

Religion isn’t just like any organization or group that affords people the opportunity to socialize.

Clay Routledge

26 Apr 2019 · 8 min read

Cowardice at Columbia

If you find it implausible that a progressive women’s college in the middle of New York City is enforcing de facto Jim Crow at the security gate, your skepticism is warranted.

Coleman Hughes

19 Apr 2019 · 7 min read

George Faludy: Hungarian Poet and Hero for Our Times

Faludy’s greatest weapon—what really allows him to swat away the mosquitoes of passing ideologies—is his delight in sensual pleasures.

Robin Ashenden

19 Apr 2019 · 6 min read

A College President Stands Up for Academic Freedom

At Quillette we hope David Yager’s moral leadership becomes a turning point in the defence of free thought. We raise our glasses to him and to Philadelphia’s University of the Arts.

Claire Lehmann

16 Apr 2019 · 7 min read

Respect, Rights, and Freedoms in an Era of Identity Activism

Standard gender pronouns are not an honorific or a mark of respect, they are simply an instrument of categorisation that emerged with the evolution of language.

Don Trubshaw

13 Apr 2019 · 6 min read

The End of Aspiration

The drive against bourgeois aspirations underpins an emerging neo-feudal system in which people remain renters for life.

Joel Kotkin

10 Apr 2019 · 8 min read

What They Don’t Teach You at the University of Washington’s Ed School

With little practical training or preparation, graduates of the program begin their teaching careers woefully unprepared.

Nick Wilson

5 Apr 2019 · 12 min read

Denying the Neuroscience of Sex Differences

No one seems to have a problem accepting that, on average, male and female bodies differ in many, many ways. Why is it surprising or unacceptable that this is true for the part of our body that we call “brain”?

Larry Cahill

29 Mar 2019 · 11 min read

The Attractions of the Clan—An Interview with Mark Weiner

My concern is that the left here is closing itself off, and that its resistance to thinking about cultural differences is a progressive parallel to right-wing climate change denial and that it could eventually eat it intellectually from inside.

Paulina Neuding and Mark S. Weiner

20 Mar 2019 · 13 min read