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In Praise of the Novelization—Pop Fiction's Least Reputable Genre

This month brings us the release of Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. No, not the film. That came out in 2019. But now HarperCollins is publishing a novelization, written by Tarantino himself, and based on the earlier film. This particular type of fiction—the bastard offspring

Kevin Mims

28 Jun 2021 · 20 min read

Mate Selection for Modernity

Hypergamy is an evolved sexual strategy where individuals mate with and/or marry those most capable of providing long term security. It is the act of marrying up.

Vincent Harinam

28 Jun 2021 · 17 min read

Understanding the Return of Socialism

Gen Z’s simultaneous distrust of government and gravitation towards social democracy is therefore not paradoxical, it is causal—the embrace of socialist-lite policies is a consequence of distrust of the prevailing liberal establishment.

Andrew Sansone

28 Jun 2021 · 8 min read

The Bias Narrative versus the Development Narrative: Thinking About Persistent Racial Inequality in the United States

How can you expect population parity in an enterprise when there are some groups (Asians? Jews?) who are significantly overrepresented?

Glenn C. Loury

27 Jun 2021 · 26 min read

The Route to Re-Enchantment

Moving from Cain and Abel to Christ’s Sermon on the Mount, with some Egyptian myths thrown in, he reconnects his young audience to the religious tradition that was always theirs to inherit, but from which they have been estranged by their modern education.

Harrison Pitt

26 Jun 2021 · 9 min read

Why Fake News Flourishes: Emitting Mere Information Is Easy, But Creating Actual Knowledge Is Hard

Digital media, by contrast, had hardly any paying customers and lured advertisers with fleeting “impressions” and “engagement,” launching a no-holds-barred race to attract eyeballs.

Jonathan Rauch

25 Jun 2021 · 9 min read

Standing Up to the Gender Ideologues: a Quillette Editorial

Once you sweep aside all the glitter showers, animated unicorns, and rainbow emojis, that is ultimately what gender supremacism is truly about.

Quillette

24 Jun 2021 · 10 min read

Juvenile convicts at work in the fields in Southern chain gang. Circa. 1903

The Limitations of Black Conservative Thought

Perhaps if black conservatives offered a more nuanced “vision” of the respective roles of individuals and governments in addressing racial inequality, the black community would be less receptive to the anti-racist narrative that conservatives so vehemently denounce.

Aaron Hanna

24 Jun 2021 · 34 min read

The 'Gender Supremacist' Threat to the Progressive Alliance: Part One of a Three-Part Series

Allan Stratton

22 Jun 2021 · 22 min read

A Conversation with Daniel Elder, the Choral Music Composer Who Was Cancelled for Opposing Arson

If you’re willing to endure the painful trial of self, you will be better for it in the end. And, with enough of us, the world will be better, too.

Quillette

22 Jun 2021 · 9 min read

Tocqueville and Us

People joining a political movement don’t usually consider its logic or consequences; they react to an injustice or grievance.

Eric Clifford Graf

21 Jun 2021 · 9 min read

When Sons Become Daughters: It’s Time to Admit That Reflexive ‘Affirmation’ Has Been a Mistake

Teenagers are being told that puberty is a time for them to make decisions about sex and gender, this at a time when they have none of the life experience that would be necessary to make such existential choices.

Angus Fox

18 Jun 2021 · 16 min read

What Are Dads Good For?

The sadly deflating truth of the matter is that it can take a good few years before children begin to apprehend what fathers are good for.

Herman Goodden

18 Jun 2021 · 8 min read

The Sperm Count Culture War

The authors all but ignore the science to focus on what they believe is more important—the ideological framing of the issue in socio-cultural discourse.

Geoffrey C. Kabat

16 Jun 2021 · 13 min read

The Conservative Case for Cannabis Legalization

The lack of conservative leadership on this issue is perhaps most keenly felt on the economic side of things, since the cannabis industry creates opportunities for small businesses and domestic manufacturing.

Matthew Roy Ackerman

15 Jun 2021 · 9 min read