In Defence of Malcolm Gladwell
He’s hardly the only writer who pretended to believe men can become women. If we shame him for confessing his intellectual dishonesty, we discourage others from doing likewise.
A collection of 71 posts
He’s hardly the only writer who pretended to believe men can become women. If we shame him for confessing his intellectual dishonesty, we discourage others from doing likewise.
Heterodox psychology grad Anthony Rispo joins Zoe Booth to unpack leaving woke ideology and the psychology behind identity, conformity, and belief.
As literary gatekeeping intensifies in the age of social media, author and Harvard fellow Adam Szetela joins Zoe to unpack how moral panics, elite ideology, and institutional cowardice are transforming publishing—and why the culture wars are being fought sentence by sentence.
As antisemitism surges online and in the streets, online hate researcher Dr Andre Oboler joins Zoe to examine how conspiracy thinking, political ideology, and institutional complacency are fuelling hate—and what can be done to stop it.
As more young men search for meaning in a fragmented world, political sociologist Joshua Roose joins Zoe to explore how masculinity, disaffection, and the lure of belonging draw some toward Islamism, others to the far right.
An exhibit in the museum’s Northwest Coast Hall repeats the false claim that the bodies of ‘215 Indigenous children’ were found at Kamloops, B.C. in ‘unmarked graves.’
As missiles fly between Tehran and Tel Aviv, Iranian dissident Danial Taghaddos joins Zoe to explain what the West gets wrong about the regime, the nuclear threat, and the future of his homeland.
A leading expert in narcissism explains why it’s so often misunderstood—and why narcissists deserve more empathy, not armchair diagnosis on social media.
With the holiday gaming season almost upon us, now is a good time to dispel some of the widely embraced misconceptions that inform her analysis.
In which an unsuspecting Quillette editor strolls Dublin’s historic streets, only to become ensnared in an unwholesome nocturnal intrigue.
A colourful conversation with polemicist Richard Hanania.
Zoe meets with the ethicist and theologian Nigel Biggar as part of his trip to Australia.
An Oxford-based academic philosopher explains why he no longer uses a pseudonym when discussing plain truths about biological sex.
On the anniversary of 7 October, philosopher David Benatar discusses the ethical questions it raises and about his new book, “Very Practical Ethics.”
A conversation with Roger Berkowitz, the Founder and Academic Director of the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics.