Podcast #314: A Gay Author’s Escape from Cults, Drugs, Queer Radicalism, and ‘Scrupulosity’
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with writer Ben Appel about his new memoir, ‘Cis White Gay: The Making of a Gender Heretic.’
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Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with writer Ben Appel about his new memoir, ‘Cis White Gay: The Making of a Gender Heretic.’
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Yale English professor-turned-essayist William Deresiewicz, who argues that Americans—many Democrats included—are fed up with campus-style progressive radicalism.
Helen Pluckrose has produced a practical guide to dealing with sticky workplace situations, alongside a clear intellectual account of social justice ideology.
On the anniversary of Richard Bilkszto’s suicide, a Quillette investigation explores how Ontario’s public school system was radicalised by ‘equity thought leaders’ such as Kike Ojo-Thompson.
Directing physicians to treat their patients as racial statistics rather than an individuals is a grievous misdirection of their skills.
This cock-up was not caused by a bug that went unnoticed; it was deliberately engineered.
In their rationalizations of violence against Jews and Israelis, they’ve outed themselves as the extremists they are.
Premature claims, distorted results, and ‘decolonizing’ the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
Pity as political strategy, if it was ever truly worthwhile, has run its course.
The pro-nuclear movement is gaining traction despite vocal opposition
Adult toddlers throw tantrums for the same reason as children: they desperately want something and have no idea how to get it.
In 2017, I got the welcome news that I’d been admitted to Princeton University. At the time, I was ecstatic. And I remain humbly grateful for the education I received there. But now that I’ve graduated, I’m not sure the prize was worth the price I paid