From Astrology to Cult Politicsâthe Many Ways We Try (and Fail) to Replace Religion Implicit in the blank-slate take on religion is the idea that religious faith may be diminished simply by changing the type of cultural inputs people receive. Clay Routledge 27 Dec 2018 · 7 min read
Confessions of a âSoulless Troglodyteâ: How My Brooklyn Literary Friendships Fell Apart in the Age of Trump For a time, this urban menagerie dictated my new sense of who I wanted to be. I didnât ask questions. It was too dazzling to stain with doubts. Lester Berg 18 Dec 2018 · 18 min read
Sad Radicals As radicals, we lived in what I call a paradigm of suspicion, one of the malignant ideas that emerge as a result of intellectual in-breeding. Conor Barnes 11 Dec 2018 · 11 min read
Take It from Someone Who Has Suffered Real Physical Abuse: Words Aren't Violence The ordinary challenges of life now are being reinvented as trauma, and words are conflated with violence. Alexandra Berryhill 7 Dec 2018 · 10 min read
The New Evolution Deniers The massive social media website Twitterâthe central hub for cultural discourse and debateâis now actively banning users for stating true facts about basic human biology. Colin Wright 30 Nov 2018 · 10 min read
Warning: Telling a Lame Joke in an Elevator can Endanger Your Career It is nothing short of bizarre that an organization whose members study international conflict and know the value of dialogue over coercion opted for coercion from the outset. Richard Ned Lebow 23 Nov 2018 · 14 min read
Writing for Quillette Ended My Theater Project Do we really think our era is so fraught and divisive that we must abandon our principles in order to achieve something that we absolutely will not achieve if we abandon our principles? Libby Emmons 20 Nov 2018 · 9 min read
Camille Paglia:Â Itâs Time for a New Map of the Gender World A society that respects neither religion nor art cannot be called a civilization. Claire Lehmann 10 Nov 2018 · 12 min read
The Grievance Studies Scandal: Five Academics Respond The authors have pulled off a modern Sokal hoax. The sequel is rarely as good as the original, but in this case it was more comprehensive and more fun than Sokalâs mockery of postmodernist scholarship. Quillette 1 Oct 2018 · 16 min read
Politics Are Not the Sum of a Person Politics is important, but it is only a means to an end. Human flourishing, or the good life, is the proper end of social life. Ryan Fazio 25 Jun 2018 · 9 min read
The Crucible of the Application Process These alterations would ostensibly bolster my chances of being accepted to and receiving funds for graduate programs. Dillon Bowen 20 Apr 2017 · 14 min read
Diversity for the Sake of Democracy Diversity is the celebration of individuality and nonconformity, and democracy is most precious when it allows three hundred million individuals to reach a compromise out of love for their country. Carrie Pritt 24 Jan 2017 · 4 min read
The Josiah Effect: How Moderate Religion Fuels Fundamentalism As it turns out, the phenomenon of a young man becoming radicalized after reading his religionâs holy book for the first time has been around for thousands of years. Henry Rambow 14 Jun 2016 · 10 min read
The Unbearable Asymmetry of Bullshit There will always be things that we havenât figured out yet, and even some that we get wrong.â But science is not just about conclusions, he argues, which are occasionally (or even frequently) incorrect. Brian D Earp 15 Feb 2016 · 8 min read
Herd Mentality Herd mentality â in all its forms, both ancient and modern â is probably the thing that frightens me most in the world. Emma C Williams 3 Jan 2016 · 5 min read
