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Quillette founder Claire Lehmann talks to author and activist Michael Shellenberger about how environmental alarmism and ideological blind spots often prevent us from having a rational discussion about the best way to address climate change while growing national economies.
As sexual violence was reaching historic lows, the narrative was demanding the opposite. The definition of sexual violence began to be broadened, and so the numbers grew.
The recent spike in trans self-identification has made things even more difficult for these parents, because gender-related body dysmorphia often appears alongside other kinds of physically focused anxieties.
Many Finnish soldiers felt pity for their opponents, prodded into battle by merciless commissars.
Europe has benefited greatly from the fact that the dominant power for the past 75 years has been a liberal democracy—a flawed liberal democracy, no doubt, but a liberal democracy all the same.
The very language we now use to discuss social justice and feminism is being subjected to American critical-race ideology and intersectional feminism.
Quillette’s Jonathan Kay speaks with Bard University history professor Sean McMeekin about his new book, which describes how the fears and ambitions of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin shaped the course of the Second World War.
Indeed, the title misleads: On Property focuses more on the historical threads linking the slave plantations to the abuses of modern policing than it does on its purported subject matter.
Indeed, given existing levels of residential segregation on all continents—urban, suburban, and rural—it is also not practically possible (and almost always politically impossible) to redraw the lines that determine attendance in ways that would produce more integration.
Long COVID is just the latest example of the sort of idea that will become popular among this generation—and it certainly won’t be the last.
They are necessary because without them none of the things that are noble can flourish.
Just as we can teach children multiplication facts, we assume we can teach them the attitudes to the world that we want them to have.
Crimes, no matter how heinous, cannot be passed onto the progeny like some modern variant of the original sin, condemning them to unending purgatory.
Gay men and women fought long and hard to be accepted for who they are, often battling reactionary bigotry in the process.
It is precisely because black lives matter that we must recognize that defunding the police has only hurt those it was intended to help.