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Self-Harm Versus the Greater Good: Greta Thunberg and Child Activism

A workplace strike shows company owners and management that workers are able to harm them economically. A school strike, on the other hand, constitutes a form of self-harm, undertaken to attract adult attention.

Paulina Neuding

23 Apr 2019 · 7 min read

A College President Stands Up for Academic Freedom

At Quillette we hope David Yager’s moral leadership becomes a turning point in the defence of free thought. We raise our glasses to him and to Philadelphia’s University of the Arts.

Claire Lehmann

16 Apr 2019 · 7 min read

Divorce and the 'Silver Bullet'

False allegations may be employed by either parent, but, given the prevailing winds of culture, the gun is far more often in the hand of a woman.

James C. Coren

16 Apr 2019 · 13 min read

The End of Aspiration

The drive against bourgeois aspirations underpins an emerging neo-feudal system in which people remain renters for life.

Joel Kotkin

10 Apr 2019 · 8 min read

In the Culture Wars, Be a Sancho Panza, Not a Don Quixote

Racists themselves succumb to a version of Don Quitoxe’s delusions when life becomes overwhelming or tumultuous.

Terry Newman

7 Apr 2019 · 10 min read

Prescriptive Racialism and Racial Exclusion

Today, it has become central to the worldview of many on the social justice Left.

Mohamed Ali

1 Apr 2019 · 5 min read

On the Eve of the Great Psychedelic Debate

The mint plant salvia divinorum exhibits powerful and unusual psychedelic effects and remains legal.

Matthew Blackwell

30 Mar 2019 · 21 min read

Denying the Neuroscience of Sex Differences

No one seems to have a problem accepting that, on average, male and female bodies differ in many, many ways. Why is it surprising or unacceptable that this is true for the part of our body that we call “brain”?

Larry Cahill

29 Mar 2019 · 11 min read

What's the State of Free Speech on Campus? That’s the Question We Asked Canadian Academics

The threat is embedded in innocuous seeming administrative protocols, which serve to obscure and diffuse the means of authority

Brayden Whitlock and Kyle Whitlock

25 Mar 2019 · 10 min read

Why Elites Dislike Standardized Testing

It is absolutely true that the SAT is the reason this scandal occurred.

Daniel Friedman

13 Mar 2019 · 9 min read

Moral Zealotry and the Seductive Nature of Evil

It would be nice if evil always announced itself and evil people always looked malevolent. Evil, alas, sometimes wears a nicer face. Otherwise it could be fearsome, but not seductive.