It’s Not Your Imagination: The Journalists Writing About Antifa Are Often Their Cheerleaders The intellectual dishonesty and disreputable methods used by these journalists are as bad as the behavior they aim to cure. Eoin Lenihan 29 May 2019 · 8 min read
How the IDW Can Avoid the Tribalist Pull Regardless of how one feels about the “IDW” brand, the heterodox movement associated with that label has had a significant and largely positive cultural impact. Cathy Young 24 May 2019 · 11 min read
Sad Radicals by Conor Barnes Greg Ellis reads Sad Radicals, Conor Barnes’s essay about how the pathologies that characterised his small anarchist sect have gone mainstream. It was published in Quillette on 11th December 2018. Quillette 16 May 2019 · 1 min read
I Was the Mob Until the Mob Came for Me by Barrett Wilson Greg Ellis reads I Was the Mob Until the Mob Came for Me, Barrett Wilson’s essay about how he went from being a respected social justice crusader to driving for a food delivery app after being targeted by online activists on Twitter. It was published in Quillette on 14th Quillette 8 May 2019 · 1 min read
Like the Campus Thought Police The hate against Hect sends a chilling message throughout my campus. Imagine you are a Smith student who supports Trump, his wall, or gun rights. How comfortable would you now be speaking up in class? James D. Miller 28 Apr 2019 · 4 min read
What Doesn’t Kill Us Brings Us Together Because calamities are uniquely egalitarian in their capacity to kill indiscriminately, they dampen the qualities that make us different. Vincent Harinam / Rob Henderson 7 Apr 2019 · 13 min read
What They Don’t Teach You at the University of Washington’s Ed School With little practical training or preparation, graduates of the program begin their teaching careers woefully unprepared. Nick Wilson 5 Apr 2019 · 12 min read
What New York's Public Schools Could Learn From Stuyvesant Stuyvesant is one of eight “specialized high schools” in New York which admit students on the basis of their scores on the Specialized High School Admissions Test (SHSAT). Daniel Friedman 3 Apr 2019 · 12 min read
Down the Rabbit Hole of Political Intolerance in Silicon Valley I took it as a good sign that by the time I got back to our family brunch all I could talk about was what I’d read about this kid (Palmer Luckey) and his incredible company (Oculus). Blake J. Harris and Clay Routledge 12 Mar 2019 · 10 min read
Forget About Decolonizing the Curriculum. We Need to Restore the West’s Telos Before it’s Too Late Historically, the decolonize movement is often highly selective in which facts it chooses to highlight. Doug Stokes 3 Mar 2019 · 11 min read
My Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Statement Part of the problem in discussing this is that the meaning of words, as used in some-but-not-all Social Justice-speak, often differs from common usage. Lee Jussim 24 Feb 2019 · 7 min read
The Internet Locusts Descend on Ristretto Roasters People on social media hurried to declare that they would never again spend a penny at Ristretto and were rewarded with approval from like-minded peers. Nancy Rommelmann 18 Feb 2019 · 10 min read
Borking Neomi Rao The scene, in other words, was all set for Kamala Harris to underline the powerlessness of women during Rao’s confirmation hearings. Heather Mac Donald 12 Feb 2019 · 7 min read
Attention, Star Trek Culture Warriors: Stand Down from Battle Stations It’s a shame so many viewers apparently were too busy fighting the culture war on planet Earth to watch the much cooler war being fought against Klingon forces in the inky vastness of space. Matt Gurney 29 Jan 2019 · 7 min read
What Is This Thing You Call 'Social Justice'? “Why should I object to that term, sir? You see, in our century we’ve learned not to fear words,” Uhura says. Barrett Wilson 17 Jan 2019 · 10 min read