Not Everyone Who Disagrees with You Is An ‘Uncle Tom’ No one has an obligation to express, or refrain from expressing, a particular view, merely because they are part of a minority group. Holly Lawford-Smith 4 Mar 2024 · 11 min read
Motorpsycho Nightmare Robert Pirsig’s insufferable cult novel about philosophy and bike maintenance turns 50. Kevin Mims 20 Feb 2024 · 17 min read
Beware the Little Lambs Nietzsche warned us about the dangers of defining our values in opposition to something else. Ben Turtel 15 Feb 2024 · 7 min read
Meritocracy and Its Discontents Meritocratic reformers claimed that they wanted equality. But instead they sought to replace the aristocracy of birth with an aristocracy of ability. J. Michael Yarros 8 Feb 2024 · 12 min read
Reviewing Bronze Age Pervert's New Book: Quillette Cetera Episode 27 A conversation with Quillette writer Oliver Traldi. Zoe Booth 7 Jan 2024 · 1 min read
The Heckler’s Veto and the Right to Free Association It's not just a matter of weighing up one group’s free speech against another group’s counter-speech. It’s also about one group’s freedom of association being impeded. Holly Lawford-Smith 27 Nov 2023 · 7 min read
Humanism and Its Discontents Humanism aspires to ethical universalism but in practice it is defined by what it opposes and excludes. Robert Huddleston 16 Nov 2023 · 9 min read
Trans Identity and the Right to Exist This is substance metaphysics for the twenty-first century. Holly Lawford-Smith 6 Oct 2023 · 10 min read
The Insidious Lie That We Can’t Understand Each Other And a guide for how to productively push back against the identity trap. Yascha Mounk 4 Oct 2023 · 15 min read
The Cancellation of Bertrand Russell Eight decades later, the issues raised by the Russell case—the rights to free speech and academic freedom—have still not been settled. James Huffman 15 Sep 2023 · 9 min read
On Political Hatred On everything from Syrian refugees through Brexit and climate change to so-called gender-affirmative medicine, people take a totalizing approach to disagreement: either you agree with me, or you are despicable. Holly Lawford-Smith 24 Aug 2023 · 7 min read
Left is Not Woke: An Interview with Susan Neiman In undermining universalism and moral progress, "wokeism" is inherently reactionary. Maarten Boudry 28 May 2023 · 13 min read
The Sanctification of the Self The focus on the self to the exclusion of everything else is undermining the rule of law. Megan Wildhood 21 Apr 2023 · 8 min read
Heidegger’s Downfall Richard Wolin’s reappraisal of Martin Heidegger offers both original contributions and a synthesis of critical scholarship. The result is a timely work of enduring importance. Jeffrey Herf 22 Feb 2023 · 18 min read
Aristotle (and the Stoics): An Interview with John Sellars A new book by John Sellars explores the life’s work and extraordinary legacy of the man he has provocatively called “the single most important human being ever to have lived.” Riley Moore 19 Feb 2023 · 19 min read