Gender Activists Are Trying to Cancel My Book. Why is Silicon Valley Helping Them?
This is what censorship looks like in 21st-century America.
Abigail Shrier
· 9 min read
Diversity Debate
A collection of 53 posts
Podcast #121: The Inconvenient Truth About Donald Trump’s Non-White Supporters
A conversation with Jamil Jivani.
Quillette
· 1 min read
What We Owe to ‘The Boys in the Band’—and Other Classics of Gay Film
I’m grateful to every straight director, actor, and writer who has taken up the cause over the last 60 years, and to their closeted friends and colleagues who inspired them.
Allan Stratton
· 15 min read
Who Speaks for Black Lives Matter? The Answer Can Be Complicated
As one might imagine, it generally is opposed by many Black Lives Matter supporters, as they disagree with any implied parallel between racist treatment of blacks and the occupational hazards of police work.
Steven Volynets
· 13 min read
The Misguided Campaign Against Journalistic Objectivity
Even historians, who have many years to consider the object of their study, inhabit “the twilight of probability.” How can those journalists tasked with writing “history’s first draft” imagine that they know which way true “harm” lies?
Lorraine Clark
· 7 min read
Radicalized Antiracism on Campus—as Seen from the Computer Lab
The University of Washington, like most schools, tracks the performance of student groups as part of its effort to enhance diversity and reduce inequality.
Stuart Reges
· 15 min read
Rallying to Protect Admissions Standards at America’s Best Public High School
The activists seeking to eliminate TJ’s meritocratic admissions systems attribute this latter result to systemic racism.
Asra Q. Nomani and Glenn Miller
· 10 min read
How the Nonbinary Trend Hurts Those with Real Gender Dysphoria
Some nonbinary people will say that they don’t like labels such as “gay” or “lesbian” because they are binary terms; attraction to a man or a woman, even in the context of being gay, is still considered attraction to a binary gender.
Debra Soh
· 6 min read
At the NHS and BBC, Important Steps Toward Restoring Balance in the Gender Debate
The fierce onslaught she received has served as a wake-up call, even for those who have not been following the debate closely.
Julian Vigo
· 10 min read
Denunciation Staged as 'Dialogue': A Review of Claudia Rankine's 'Help'
The lines spoken by the white men on stage were excerpted from responses to her Times article.
Nick Comilla
· 8 min read
In Canada's Version of Portland, Cancel Culture Comes for ‘Steve-O-Reno's’
Rommelmann also was eager to move to a city with a vibrant national media presence.
Jonathan Kay
· 9 min read
Discovering the Link Between Gender Identity and Peer Contagion
The lack of childhood history was critical, since traditional gender dysphoria typically begins in early childhood.
Abigail Shrier
· 8 min read
Racism Is Real. But Science Isn’t the Problem
There are fewer tenured black physicists at universities and laboratories because there are fewer black PhD physicists.
Lawrence M. Krauss
· 11 min read
Meet Critical Theorists' Latest Target: Critical Theorists
Wæver has dedicated his career to the idea that some of the most consequential forms of political activity and statecraft should be viewed through the lens of unspoken societal power hierarchies.
Kathrine Jebsen Moore
· 10 min read
Diversity and Discrimination in Open Source
What is the problem with that? Isn’t diversity something we should incentivize? As it happens, I don’t think diversity is either inherently good or inherently bad.
Rafael Avila de Espindola
· 7 min read