The Sudden Unpopularity of Neoliberal Centrists For every ad a corporation runs encouraging people to vote for a political initiative, it runs a hundred ads presenting a product or service through the lens of a socially progressive narrative. Uri Harris 14 Mar 2019 · 9 min read
The Clear Case for Capitalism At a time when socialism and anti-capitalist populism are experiencing a resurgence, this is my attempt to turn the mysterious capitalist calzone into an appetizing capitalist pizza. Tyler Hogge 10 Mar 2019 · 13 min read
Thoreau and the Primitivist Temptation Abbey’s book is just one example in a sea of recent works of literature, film, and music, which romanticize the idea of leaving society behind to live—often alone—close to nature. Erich J. Prince 5 Mar 2019 · 8 min read
Forget About Decolonizing the Curriculum. We Need to Restore the West’s Telos Before it’s Too Late Historically, the decolonize movement is often highly selective in which facts it chooses to highlight. Doug Stokes 3 Mar 2019 · 11 min read
We Must Defend Free Thought Scientific and technological progress cannot happen without people thinking freely—so to clamp down on it is to clamp down on progress itself. Claire Lehmann 24 Feb 2019 · 8 min read
What My Days as a Marxist Taught Me About Modern Political Cults Parsing these texts becomes an obsession for generations of true believers. The rapture, that bloody apocalyptic end of days, is replaced with revolution. C.K. Ryan 21 Feb 2019 · 9 min read
Public Education’s Dirty Secret My small classes faced a large photograph of Barack Obama displayed proudly in front of the classroom over the title “Notre Président.” Mary Hudson 10 Feb 2019 · 20 min read
Reading ‘Lolita’ in the West The star of Lolita is not Lolita herself, but Humbert Humbert, who hides his obsession with adolescent girls under a mask of tweedy old-world erudition. Zachary Snowdon Smith 26 Jan 2019 · 9 min read
The Unconstrained Vision of David Deutsch Sowell distinguishes between the unconstrained vision and the constrained vision. Clovis Roussy 26 Jan 2019 · 11 min read
How My Toxic Stoicism Helped Me Cope with Brain Cancer One of my sisters commented that I was so calm she thought the doctors must have given me a Valium. Jonathan Church 23 Jan 2019 · 12 min read
Anatomist of Racial Inequality: An Interview with Glenn Loury Loury has taught at Brown University for over a decade, an institution where pleas for American patriotism are likely to be summarily dismissed. So why does he insist on making them? Christian Alejandro Gonzalez 22 Jan 2019 · 14 min read
Enlightenment Wars: Some Reflections on 'Enlightenment Now,' One Year Later As Thomas Paine wrote, “To argue with someone who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.” Steven Pinker 14 Jan 2019 · 52 min read
Thoughtcrime and Punishment: A Year Of Shunning and Law Suits at a Canadian University No one at Wilfrid Laurier University would give me a straight answer about anything. It was a climate of evasiveness and secrecy. Lindsay Shepherd 8 Jan 2019 · 7 min read
"Stop Assuming that Everything You Feel or Think Is Right"—An Interview with Robert Greene Don’t assume that the reason that you feel something, and that it’s right just because you feel it. Ryan Holiday 1 Jan 2019 · 18 min read
The 2018 Free Thought Awards Quillette’s success comes from a group of writers compelled to express the truth as they see it. We couldn’t be prouder of our association with so many inspiring, talented free thinkers. From the dozens, we give a special nod to these five for their stellar contribution in 2018. Quillette 30 Dec 2018 · 4 min read
