The Search to Explain Our Anxiety and Depression: Will ‘Long COVID’ Become the Next Gender Ideology?
In December, I wrote a detailed report for Quillette about the race-based social panic that had recently erupted at Haverford College in...
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Splendid Triviality: Philosophy, Art, and Sport in a Time of Crisis
One of my philosophy professors in college remarked that philosophy flourishes in a time of decline or crisis. No, that doesn’t mean that...
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Can You Teach Children to be Anti-Racist?
In 1935, Richard Clarke Cabot, a professor of clinical medicine and social ethics at Harvard University, began one of the first randomized...
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Anti-Colonialism’s Bad History
Prevailing academic theories of race relations hold that wealth and power differences between groups of people arose from social,...
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When Sons Become Daughters, Part III: Parents of Transitioning Boys Speak Out on Their Own Suffering
What follows is the third instalment of When Sons Become Daughters, a multi-part Quillette series that explores how parents react when a...
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Black Lives Matter, So Refund the Police
During the summer of 2020, following the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, it was easier to count how many cities didn’t have...
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How Will Decolonizing the Curriculum Help the Poor and Dispossessed?
On February 8th, 2021, the Students of Color Liberation Front at the University of Michigan made a series of anti-racist demands,...
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The Fear and Fantasy of COVID-19 Vaccination
This article has been expanded and adapted from prepared remarks delivered at the Researchers.One panel “The Science and Social Impact of...
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Georgetown’s Cultural Revolution
Sandra Sellers, an adjunct professor at Georgetown University’s Law Center, was forced to resign because she was caught on video saying to...
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Podcast 144: James Kirchick on ‘The Disintegration of the ACLU’
Quillette‘s Jonathan Kay talks to author James Kirchick about his recent Tablet article documenting how the American Civil Liberties Union...
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The Transhumanist Case for Liberty
Circa 441 BCE, Sophocles set down on papyrus (most likely) his famous “Ode To Man,” a countdown of human masteries: He navigates. He...
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What Happened to Social Democracy?
In a world that seems to be divided between neoliberal orthodoxy and identitarian dogmas, it is possible to miss the waning presence of...
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When Sons Become Daughters, Part II: Parents of Transitioning Boys Speak Out on Their Own Suffering
What follows is the second instalment of When Sons Become Daughters, a five-part Quillette series that explores how parents react when a...
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Diversity, Inclusion, and Academic Freedom: The Case of Gender Biology
Our university recently circulated an email message, the contents of which I found somewhat strange. Or rather, I might have found it...
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Facts Don’t Care About Your Diversity Training Certificate—A Critique of Credentialism
One of the most commonly heard debater’s challenges, online and in real life, is: “Are YOU an expert in (X)?” The obvious if generally...
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Podcast 143: Daphne Merkin on the Baseless Abuse Claims Against Woody Allen—And Why The Media Refuses to Let Them Die
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks to journalist Daphne Merkin, author of a widely discussed 2018 New York Magazine article on...
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Beyond Order: 12 More Rules For Life—A Review
A review of Beyond Order: 12 More Rule for Life by Jordan B. Peterson. Penguin Books, 402 pages. (March 2021) “Any sensible person would...
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Persuasion and the Prestige Paradox: Are High Status People More Likely to Lie?
Many have discovered an argument hack. They don’t need to argue that something is false. They just need to show that it’s associated with...
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When Sons Become Daughters: Parents of Transitioning Boys Speak Out on Their Own Suffering
What follows is the introductory instalment of When Sons Become Daughters, a four-part Quillette series that explores how parents react...
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Between Hartlepool and Hampstead—Paul Embery on the British Labour Party and the Working Class
In December of 2020, Paul Embery published his first book, Despised: Why the Modern Left Loathes the Working Class, in which he argues...
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