Politics - Quillette (Page 2)

One-Dimensional Woman Enters the Manosphere

Nina Power’s new book is fraught with contradictions and ideological incoherence.

Arturo Desimone

28 Jul 2023 · 7 min read

New Atheism and the Demand for Dogma

The notion that we abandoned our old faiths and replaced them with new ones is too tidy and simplistic.

Matt Johnson

24 Jul 2023 · 9 min read

The Left’s Social Contract Is Broken. Here’s How to Fix It

A relentless focus on dubious forms of ‘oppression’ is alienating traditional leftists. Saving the progressive movement means returning it to its liberal roots

Allan Stratton

20 Jul 2023 · 14 min read

A Life in the Fray

A new memoir by Martin Peretz, the former owner and editor-in-chief of The New Republic, provides a timely reminder of what American journalism has lost.

Jeffrey Herf

10 Jul 2023 · 21 min read

It Doesn’t Make It Alright

The SCOTUS decision on affirmative action has ended a hypocritical and incoherent policy.

Andrew Hammel

3 Jul 2023 · 15 min read

The Retreat from Moscow

Prigozhin’s coup attempt raises a number of questions to which there are no reassuring answers.

John Lloyd

27 Jun 2023 · 7 min read

Philanthropy and Pluralism

Foundations are having to fend off pressures to conform to the new philanthropic orthodoxies on race and identity issues.

Naomi Schaefer Riley / James Piereson

13 Jun 2023 · 4 min read

The Threat of Decivilisation

During a recent dinner at the Élysée Palace, the French president was confronted with the possibility that France is slipping into murderous anarchy.

John Lloyd

10 Jun 2023 · 8 min read

America Doesn’t Need Regime Change

Patrick Deneen has written a book that reproduces and encourages a form of self-deception that’s pervasive in the United States on the populist Right.

Damon Linker

6 Jun 2023 · 15 min read

America’s Failing Child-Protection System

If Governor DeSantis really wants to protect children, he should forget about the death penalty and institute a “one-strike-and-you’re-out” policy instead.

Naomi Schaefer Riley

2 Jun 2023 · 6 min read

Manufacturing Dissent

Activists and opinion-formers on the Left and Right have been persuaded that living under anything besides the kind of governance they want means they’ve been cheated.