Regressive Left - Quillette (Page 2)

Workers vs. Wokeness at Smith College: Campus Social Justice as a Luxury Good

For poor black people who live genuinely marginalized lives, and who will never set foot on a campus like Oberlin, racism is a real evil that affects their lives.

Jonathan Kay

17 Nov 2020 · 16 min read

A Poor Farrier's Journey to Political Sanity

I'm still not immune to violent political fantasies, especially when I become angry at scenes of Left-wing protests in Portland, Seattle, and other cities.

Austin Schue

5 Oct 2020 · 12 min read

The Dishonest and Misogynistic Hate Campaign Against J.K. Rowling

And it turns out that she was, because despite the best efforts of her critics, she hasn’t yet been truly cancelled.

Louise Perry

18 Sep 2020 · 7 min read

Iran’s Fawning Western Apologists

The enraged public reaction to the killing of Soleimani in Tehran, Beirut and Baghdad was predictable.

Kaveh Shahrooz

8 Jan 2020 · 5 min read

The Apologist's Apologist—A Reply to Robert Wright

Blumenthal’s politics are morally repellent and intellectually dishonest and should be exposed as such.

Matt Johnson

25 Dec 2019 · 7 min read

Gates Derangement Syndrome

Isn’t this a debate worth having without an avalanche of bad faith and scornful remarks about how we “can’t even trust Bill Gates to put his desire for a better world above his self-preservational plute drive”?

Matt Johnson

15 Nov 2019 · 10 min read

The Cancelation of Shane Gillis Provides the Mob with Another Win

It’s easy to join a Twitter mob. You take zero risk if the takedown doesn’t work, but you pretend you’re Rosa Parks if it does.

Jamie Kilstein

24 Sep 2019 · 6 min read

A Black Eye for the Columbia Journalism Review

Essays attacking the left- or right-wing bias of this or that media outlet are, of course, old hat in my business.

Jonathan Kay

18 Jun 2019 · 8 min read

The Impassable Road to Redemption

Not only is no-one allowed to change for the better anymore, no one is even allowed to be understood, much less forgiven.

Clint Margrave

24 Apr 2019 · 9 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

Against the Militancy of the French 'Decolonial' Movement

We call on public authorities, heads of cultural, academic, scientific, and research institutions, but also the judiciary, to pull themselves together.

Quillette

28 Jan 2019 · 5 min read

Trans Activists’ Campaign Against ‘TERFs’ has Become an Attack on Science

While the culture-war skirmish over transgenderism typically is treated as a debate about culture or sociology, it is also a debate about the primacy of science.

Julian Vigo

18 Oct 2018 · 12 min read

Resolving the Venezuela Crisis: Is There a Case for Outside Military Intervention?

Venezuelans have been voting with their feet to escape the ruin the regime has inflicted on them.

Jeffrey Tayler

1 Oct 2018 · 8 min read

Suspicion and the Corruption of the Liberal Mind

Suspicious reading is applied to any and every medium as well as every form of individual expression.

Stephen Harrod Buhner

22 Aug 2018 · 8 min read

Devastation and Denial: Cambodia and the Academic Left

Amazingly, even as Cambodia disintegrated, the Khmer Rouge benefitted from unsolicited apologetics from intellectuals at the West’s august universities.

Matthew Blackwell

15 Jul 2018 · 18 min read