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An Unscientific American

Editor-in-chief Laura Helmuth’s departure from ‘Scientific American’ last week is an object lesson in the dangers of mixing facts and ideology.

Michael Shermer

21 Nov 2024 · 12 min read

My APA Resignation

These are terrifying words. They’re also at best debatable, arguably simply untrue.

Christopher J. Ferguson

31 Dec 2021 · 10 min read

What is Happening to My Profession?

Some of the people who are refusing the life-saving COVID vaccine are alienated from mainstream institutions, which they view as house organs of the political Left rather than trustworthy arbiters of truth.

Sally Satel

30 Nov 2021 · 10 min read

Confession and Conspiracism in the Church of Social Justice

A true and sincere confession of one’s actual sins and cruelties is a courageous act that leaves one vulnerable and exposed.

Jonathan Kay

22 Nov 2021 · 16 min read

The Implosion of Boston’s Pride Parade Is a Sign of Things to Come

Pride 4 The People and its allies were scathing, accusing board members of preferring to shut down the organization rather than include black and trans people.

Maxwell Meyer

13 Oct 2021 · 12 min read

'The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality'—A Review

The scientific idea that one’s genes affect one’s life outcomes isn’t novel.

Robert VerBruggen

8 Sep 2021 · 10 min read

Quillette's Best on Critical Social Justice

According to this culturally relative view of the world, then, truth is arbitrary and exclusive, rather than evidentiary and shared. The consequence is divisiveness.

Quillette

21 Aug 2021 · 4 min read

As US Schools Prioritize Diversity Over Merit, China Is Becoming the World’s STEM Leader

In a 2018 report published by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), China ranked first in mathematical proficiency among 15-year-olds, while the United States was in 25th place.

Percy Deift, Svetlana Jitomirskaya, and Sergiu Klainerman

19 Aug 2021 · 13 min read

What the Right Gets Wrong about Social Justice Culture

Social justice culture is a moral culture, like honor or dignity culture. It’s also a political ideology, like Marxism or liberalism.

Bradley Campbell

20 Jul 2020 · 9 min read

A Librarian’s Timeless Mission: Supporting Social Justice Through Freedom of Speech

Believing in freedom of speech means believing in freedom of expression for all. The late Elliot L. Shelkrot, long-time head of the Philadelphia Public Library, once said that democracy depends on an informed population.

Quillette

17 Mar 2020 · 8 min read

Confessions of an Equity-Industry Propagandist

It was my job to turn a regressive sow’s ear into a progressive silk purse.

Janet Mackay

5 Feb 2020 · 8 min read

Quillette Podcast 45 – Nancy Rommelmann on How Portland Became the Woke Capital of America

Jonathan Kay talks to journalist and YouTuber Nancy Rommelmann about how Portland became the most woke city in America, a phenomenon she wrote about recently for Tablet. She provides an update on the targeting of her husband’s coffee shop by an outrage mob after she expressed some reservations about

Quillette / Nancy Rommelmann

16 Jul 2019 · 1 min read