philosophy - Quillette

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 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.”