Top Stories - Quillette (Page 32)

Twilight of Democracy—A Review

And when Brexit is assumed to be a matter of nostalgia, there has to be evidence drawn from those who actually voted for it, and not just from those members of the elite who worked or wrote in its support.

John Lloyd

1 Aug 2020 · 14 min read

The Piety of the Impious

The largely ineradicable character of the religious instinct means that it persists, even upon the apparently disenchanted landscapes of modern secular culture.

Scott Buchanan

1 Aug 2020 · 9 min read

Lessons from the Last Empire of Iran

Despite the uncertainties and tensions that characterize modern political life, we would do well to remember that the future we want is never the future we actually get, and that civilisation will outlast the fragility of politics.

Michael Bonner

31 Jul 2020 · 11 min read

Our Oppressive Moment

The Harper’s letter is a declaration intended to resist the poisonous atmosphere suffocating those who don’t enjoy our platforms and profiles.

John McWhorter

29 Jul 2020 · 7 min read

I Was Invited to Testify on Energy Policy. Then Democrats Didn't Let Me Speak

What, exactly, had I said that was so dangerous as to lead Democrats to engage in character assassination and undermine liberal democratic norms? Nothing I hadn’t already said last January when I testified before Congress about climate change and energy.

Michael Shellenberger

29 Jul 2020 · 6 min read

Understanding Totalitarianism

Totalitarian regimes begin in mass movements, but it should be noted that not all mass movements are totalitarian. The American Civil Rights movement was a mass movement and undoubtedly a hugely positive force for urgently needed change.

Brent Holley

29 Jul 2020 · 16 min read

Cultural Revolution in the Renaissance?

The problem with this picture of the Renaissance is not that it has no truth to it—it certainly has some—but that it is perversely unbalanced.

James Hankins

29 Jul 2020 · 8 min read

The Myth of Pervasive Misogyny

Contrary to expectations from the pervasive misogyny theory, across a variety of topics, samples, and research teams, recent findings in psychology suggest that such biases often favor women.

Cory Clark / Bo Winegard

27 Jul 2020 · 11 min read

Remembering Cancel Culture’s 40-Year-Old Stepfather

"Cruising" faced protests and boycotts from gay activists and the LGBTQ+ community, but later became a cult hit.

Adrian Nguyen

27 Jul 2020 · 7 min read

Princeton University is One of the Least Racist Institutions in the World

In his declaration of independence published in Quillette, Katz, a chaired professor in the Classics department, defends the importance of free speech in academia and accuses the authors of the letter of trying to impose unreasonable changes at Princeton.

Sergiu Klainerman

27 Jul 2020 · 6 min read

Humanity's Great Urban Adventure Didn't Begin With Greece and Rome

Even in the darkest period of economic and political collapse, the chain of urban societies that stretched across the Old World was never broken.

Greg Woolf

26 Jul 2020 · 8 min read

Of Heroic Deeds and Hysterical Masses

Much of today’s madness results from the failure to impart that lesson, a failure in which those ostensible repositories of enlightenment (the nation’s institutions of higher learning), obstinately committed to inflaming self-pity and self-importance, are indisputably and indefensibly complicit.