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The Petulant Campaign Against Eric Kaufmann
Sir Roger Scruton—the prodigious conservative philosopher—once noted of his time at Birkbeck, that it was “traditionally a left-wing place, haunted by the fear that somewhere, somehow, a conservati…
Trauma and the Psychedelic Renaissance
Military veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and the wildly imaginative British writer and philosopher Aldous Huxley are increasingly finding common ground. In 1954, Huxley publishe…
How Liberal Elites Use Race to Keep Workers Divided—And Justify Class-Based Inequities
The Pulitzer Center allegedly “raises awareness of underreported global issues through direct support of quality journalism across all media platforms and a unique program of education and public o…
Gender Activists Co-Opted British Columbia’s Courts. Meet the Woman Who Stood Up to Them
We have become so habituated to acts of deplatforming that many of us can no longer keep up: Though each new incident still elicits a ritual sigh of regret, we increasingly shrug it off as just ano…
Lesbians Aren’t Attracted to a Female ‘Gender Identity.’ We’re Attracted to Women
There is commonly held to be a difference between a sexual preference and a sexual orientation. Sexual preferences include preferences for blondes over brunettes, or macho men over pretty boys. At …
Cancelling Comedians While the World Burns—A Review
Review of Cancelling Comedians While the World Burns: A Critique of the Contemporary Left by Ben Burgis. Zero Books, 136 pages (May 2021). In 2013, British philosopher and cultural critic Mark Fish…
Debate and Disinformation: The Ugly Quarrel Over the UK Government’s Race Report
Howard Beckett is the deputy leader of the largest trade union in the UK, a frontrunner in the race to be its new leader, and the elected representative of the country’s unions on the executive of …
Masochistic Nationalism—A Review
A review of Masochistic Nationalism: Multicultural Self-Hatred and the Infatuation with the Exotic by Göran Adamson. Routledge, 138 pages (March 2021). In his 1945 essay, “Notes on Nationalis…
Podcast #149: Lingnan University scholar Peter Baehr on Academic Life Within Hong Kong’s Increasingly Repressive Political Atmosphere
Quillette’s Jonathan Kay speaks with Hong Kong-based professor Peter Baehr about the many ways in which free speech and democratic politics are being suppressed by China’s mainland communist govern…
The Sex Negative Society
Sex is in trouble. Fewer of us are having it. Those who do have it less, later, and are finding it harder and less satisfying than they hoped for. The question arises: how come, in our culture that…
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