Double Standards in the Gender Debate Butler’s latest book is leftist political propaganda masquerading as the dispassionate work of an academic. Holly Lawford-Smith 12 Apr 2024 · 13 min read
Beware Cultural Drift Thoughts on modernity’s monoculture mistake. Robin Hanson 11 Apr 2024 · 12 min read
The Metamodern Shift in the Culture Wars Metamodernism conveys the experience of living in a world in which we feel comfortable oscillating between different perspectives. Peter Clarke 20 Mar 2024 · 6 min read
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