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Colin Wright
Colin Wright is the Managing Editor of Quillette. He received his PhD in evolutionary biology from UC Santa Barbara in 2018, and founded Reality’s Last Stand, a publication and newsletter exp…
What Are Dads Good For?
Last weekend, our lone London, Ontario-residing child somehow got it into her head (and successfully implanted the idea into ours as well) that it was Father’s Day and came over bearing tins of Gui…
When Sons Become Daughters: It’s Time to Admit That Reflexive ‘Affirmation’ Has Been a Mistake
What follows is the seventh and final instalment of When Sons Become Daughters, a Quillette series that explores how parents react when a son announces he wants to be a girl—and explains why so man…
Podcast #154: Jonathan Rauch on Free Speech and Tackling Misinformation
Quillette’s Toby Young talks to free speech advocate and Brookings Institution Fellow Jonathan Rauch about his new book The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defence of Truth. It’s a follow-…
The Sperm Count Culture War
Attempts to make science conform to ideology have enjoyed a long and dispiriting history. For many centuries, religion was the main perpetrator, and scientists and philosophers who ran afoul of the…
The Conservative Case for Cannabis Legalization
Last November, more than 75 percent of voters in Mississippi voted to legalize medical marijuana. By February, neighboring Alabama’s Senate had passed its own legalization for the third year in a r…
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The ‘Lab Leak’ Inquiry at the State Department
The following essay was originally posted at the author’s Medium blog here. In both journalism and policymaking—if not always in politics, or in the sordid world of score-settling by unemploy…
Podcast #153: Michael Shermer on Our Enduring Fascination with UFOs
Quillette’s Jonathan Kay talks to UFO expert Michael Shermer about why we keep searching the skies for signs of alien visitors (and why we always come away disappointed).
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If you want TRUTH, not "Gatekeeper" guff, look up Dr Steven Greer, or Sirius Disclosure Project.
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One ‘Maverick’ Documents Another—Jason Riley’s Biography of Thomas Sowell
A review of Maverick: A Biography of Thomas Sowell, by Jason Riley. Basic Books, 240 pages (May, 2021). Thomas Sowell is an icon. And, now, he has a biographer. While Sowell himself has written, by…
Why Is the Society for American Archaeology Promoting Indigenous Creationism?
In April, one of us—Elizabeth Weiss—gave a talk, titled Has Creationism Crept Back into Archaeology?, at the 86th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology (SAA). The 87-year-old SAA i…
