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There is No ‘Gay Gene,’ but Sexuality is Affected by Many Genes of Small Effect

Day by day, as genetic science advances, it becomes ever clearer that all psychological traits are genetically influenced.

Jerry Barnett

14 Sep 2019 · 4 min read

Greece: Tensions Rise Again As Migrant Crisis Escalates

Migration in the Mediterranean has increased in recent weeks to the highest level since the EU-Turkey deal in March, 2016, and Greece is back to being the main entry point for hopeful migrants.

Nektaria Stamouli

13 Sep 2019 · 6 min read

William Peter Blatty's Counter-Countercultural Parable

In her new book Primal Screams: How the Sexual Revolution Created Identity Politics (excerpted in Quillette on August 27), essayist and cultural critic Mary Eberstadt documents just how damaging the sexual revolution of the 1960s, and its normalization of divorce in particular, has been to America’s children. She mentions

Kevin Mims

13 Sep 2019 · 13 min read

Anti-Pornography Campaigners' Pseudo-Scientific Treadmill

The authors are arguably on firmer ground when discussing the health and well-being of those who perform in pornography.

Christopher J. Ferguson

12 Sep 2019 · 6 min read

The Political Excommunication of Erin Weir Betrays the Face of Modern Political Cowardice

Under the Canadian political system, party leaders are free to unilaterally block candidates, no matter the views of voters or the rank-and-file.

Eric Cline

9 Sep 2019 · 15 min read

A Flawed Defense of Safe Spaces in the New York Times

Ironically, what is really needed is the restoration of the entire college campus as a safe space for people of all perspectives.

James Huffman

6 Sep 2019 · 4 min read

In Defence of the Past

Whether it is because we got things wrong or because we got them right, the past is our servant, the key to a richer future and higher states of consciousness.

RJ Smith

6 Sep 2019 · 6 min read

Beyond the Hypatia Affair: Philosophers Blocking the Way of Inquiry

If some faction of philosophers are able to declare an issue decided—over screams of dissent from other philosophers—then we can expect others to follow the same playbook.

Spencer Case

6 Sep 2019 · 12 min read

The Politics of Procreation

The trend towards post-familialism, a society in which the family and marriage are no longer central to society, will reshape our politics, economy, and society in the decades ahead.

Joel Kotkin

5 Sep 2019 · 9 min read

The Frankfurt School and the Allure of Submission

For Fromm, Horkheimer, and Adorno, this project could only end in a desire for mass death. This is because, in a nihilistic sense, death is the ultimate form of order, stripped of all the anxieties and challenges which come with life.

Matt McManus

4 Sep 2019 · 9 min read

No, Jonathan Haidt is Not Like a Slavery Apologist

The unhinged reasoning in Fairbanks’s essay invites an overcorrection. It would be easy—and tendentious—to reverse her argument. The Left are the real heirs of the proslavery tradition—intolerant aggression disguised as aggrieved fragility, etc.

Adam Rowe

4 Sep 2019 · 6 min read

A Letter From Hong Kong

The myths of the obedient Hong Kong child, of the disciplined dronelike worker, of the person who puts money above everything else, are shattered for ever.

Peter Baehr

3 Sep 2019 · 7 min read

John Adams and the Search for a Natural (and Needed) American Aristocracy

But a further question remains. Where are the men—and, today, women—of real merit that our form of government allows to come to the fore?

Anthony Kronman

29 Aug 2019 · 7 min read

In Celebration of Errors

Shouting someone down for speaking a thought in public effectively ends the critical discussion. There can be no further exploration of why the idea at issue is wrong, or what kernel of truth there may be therein.

Logan Chipkin

28 Aug 2019 · 6 min read

Bitterness and Inequality—A Reply to Matt McManus

Equality of opportunity is not enough, according to Rawls, and a deeper conception of fairness would entail providing everyone with equal prospects of success.

Samuel Kronen

27 Aug 2019 · 6 min read