Political - Quillette

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 · 8 min read

The Case for a Second Brexit Referendum Revisited: A Response to Madeline Grant

In the 2017 Act, Parliament simply gave permission to the Government to make the notification under Article 50, and negotiate a Withdrawal Agreement.

Oliver Conolly

6 Feb 2019 · 7 min read

Why Does Ralph Northam Deserve No Mercy?

Elite liberalism is embracing modes of thought that I once associated with the political Right: joy in punishment and us-versus-them thinking.

Zaid Jilani

2 Feb 2019 · 7 min read

Understanding and Misunderstanding 'Dog-Whistling'

It is common to hear from the alt-right that words like ‘diversity’ are dog-whistles for anti-white racism.

Blake Smith

16 Jul 2018 · 9 min read

Political Moderates Are Lying

Change is wrought by those willing to lead or force others toward it. Which is why we are skeptical that most people truly believe every position they express.

Vincent Harinam and Rob Henderson

2 Jul 2018 · 11 min read

The Prison-House of Political Language

Plans have now been announced to once again adapt Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four to the screen but this time with “Trump hanging over it.

Neema Parvini

4 Jun 2018 · 11 min read

The Munk Debate and the Perils of Tribalism

Tribalism isn’t a toy and academics who think they can regulate it up and down like a set of dials to determine who’s in which group

Uri Harris

28 May 2018 · 5 min read

Can Liberalism Survive?

Marxian critique of liberalism is powerful and penetrating. It splits liberalism into two parts—an intellectual part and a social part—and shows a conflict.

Uri Harris

15 May 2018 · 13 min read

Direct Democracy and Its Discontents

What is direct democracy? It is a process of political decision-making that puts power directly in the hands of the populace.

Oliver Conolly

27 Dec 2017 · 11 min read

Political Animals: The Limits of Labels and Why We Must Overcome Them

It’s about vision and seeing principles through action. It’s about creativity and intuition blended with pragmatism and fact. Above all, politics is what we make of it.

Theo Zenou

2 Mar 2017 · 8 min read

The New Trump-ian Order

What I have outlined above are valid critiques of Trump’s policies which need to be vigorously pursued through constitutional channels and via Senatorial and Congressional opposition.

Sumantra Maitra

22 Jan 2017 · 5 min read

Pundits are Blind to the Grassroots of Political Change

The fit about Farage resigning should in a circular kind of way remind us why the Brexit vote was so important symbolically.

Gearóid Murphy

5 Jan 2017 · 3 min read

How Sexual Dominance Influences Politics

The link between sex and dominance has a deep evolutionary history. The perennial battles between males over reproductive access to females fill the annals of natural history.

Gregory Gorelik

21 Jul 2016 · 10 min read