Sign up for Trump’s Return, a newsletter featuring coverage of the second Trump presidency. What exactly is Donald Trump doing? Since taking office, he has reduced his administration’s effectiveness by appointing to essential agencies people who lack the skills and temperaments to do their jobs. His…

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. Until recently, I resisted using the F-word to describe President Trump. For one thing, there were too many elements of classical fascism that didn’t seem to fit. For another, the term has been overused to the…

Guest Essay Jan. 5, 2025 New Listen to this article · 7:05 min Learn more By Mr. Gonell is a former sergeant in the Capitol Police and the author, with Susan Shapiro, of “American Shield: The Immigran

“Public universities,” Christopher Rufo wrote on August 11 on X (formerly Twitter), “are not a ‘free marketplace of ideas.’” This provocative statement doesn’t fully convey Rufo’s views on the subject

A Nepalese historian once told me a story. On a plane to Kathmandu, he was sitting next to an American legal expert who had been called in to help design Nepal’s first-ever republican constitution. But after sparking a conversation about Nepal’s history and its diverse peoples, the historian was…

Welcome to Up for Debate. Each week, Conor Friedersdorf rounds up timely conversations and solicits reader responses to one thought-provoking question. Later, he publishes some thoughtful replies. Sign up for the newsletter here. Question of the Week What roles should “color-blindness” and…

The starry heavens above us, and the moral law within, Anselm Kiefer, 2010 Moral relativism is a kind of phantom theory, one with very few active adherents which has nevertheless been the subject of widespread discussion among moral philosophers and cultural commentators. It is a philosophical…

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In a landmark decision handed down today, the Supreme Court ruled that the use of race in college admissions violates the 14th amendment––effectively ending “Affirmative Action” overnight. For some, this is a shocking step backwards. For others, it’s a long overdue endorsement of color-blindness and…

A new book on the Christian right reveals how a series of unscrupulous leaders turned politics into a powerful and lucrative gospel. POLITICO illustration/Photos by AP, Gage Skidmore, iStock 12/01/2023 05:00 AM EST Tim Alberta is a staff writer for The Atlantic and the author of . He formerly served…

George Orwell is forever the patron saint of language and the ways it can become degraded in times of war—when a split occurs between what is being inflicted on human beings, on human bodies, and the words of ideologues who want to keep us from seeing “what is in front of one’s nose,” as Orwell…

Sign up for Quillette Sydney. London. Toronto. No spam. Unsubscribe anytime. The male and female sexes are ancient, having emerged on the evolutionary landscape more than a billion years ago. This is much older than humans, older than most plant and animal species, older than most marine life, and…

Universal Images Group via Getty. One hundred and fifty years ago this month, John Stuart Mill died in his home in Avignon. His last words were to his step-daughter, Helen Taylor: “You know that I have done my work.” He certainly had. During his 66 years of life, Mill became the preeminent public…

A paradigm shift towards a more relevant system. 14 min read· Mar 12, 2023 -- Image: Romolo Tavani. Conformity to Agency. Is our education system contributing to a decline in human thriving? Is the current focus on wellbeing in education, organisations and society unintentionally making mental…

(Image via Getty) by Dr Erica Anderson As a clinical psychologist for more than 40 years and a transgender health expert, I have helped many transgender people, including hundreds of young people, to transition. I’m a former President of the United States Professional Association for Transgender…

Photo-Illustration: The Cut; Photos: Getty This story, about women in South Korea who identify as part of the 4B movement, was originally published on March 8, 2023. In the days following the election of former president Donald Trump, interest in the movement has spiked dramatically. This article…

Pamela Paul Feb. 16, 2023 Credit...Carlo Allegri/Reuters By Opinion Columnist “Trans people need and deserve protection.” “I believe the majority of trans-identified people not only pose zero threat to others but are vulnerable.” “I respect every trans person’s right to live any way that feels…

Subscriber-only Newsletter John McWhorter March 4, 2022 Credit...Delcan and Co. By Opinion Writer Many people these days, noting my frequent skepticism of the woke vocabulary and woke prescriptions for language use, ask me why I’m capitalizing “Black” when I write about Black Americans. The truth…

It is tempting to think that they have clear beginnings. They don’t Apr 22nd 2022 IN A CHURCH hewn out of a mountainside, just over a thousand years or so ago, a monk was struggling with a passage in Latin. He did what others like him have done, writing the tricky bits in his own language between…

In 1901 the soon to be first president of the American Anthropological Association wrote that “through observation of a typical [Native American] tribe,” it was clear that “the savage stands strikingly close to sub-human species in every aspect.” An outgrowth of the pseudoscientific theory of racial…

The Inauthenticity Behind Black Lives Matter Insisting on the prevalence of ‘systemic racism’ is a way of defending a victim-focused racial identity. By Shelby Steele Wonder Land: "Systemic racism" is a systemic forgetting of 55 years of urban policy failure. Image: Scott Heins/Getty Images Sen. Tim…

Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church has defended Russia’s actions and blamed the conflict on the West. Patriarch Kirill’s support for the invasion of a countr

TOKYO — Before moving out of Tokyo for her new job, Akari Shirai wanted to eat at the favorite restaurant she used to visit with her then husband. There was one issue: She didn’t want to be flooded wi

On February 21st, Vladimir Putin turned a declaration of war into a history lecture. As his troops massed for that week’s full-blown invasion, the President declared Ukraine to be an “inalienable part

This article was originally published in The Wall Street Journal on March 7th, 2021. Introduction (March 8th, 2022) As the great Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes once wrote, “There are years when nothi

Subscriber-only Newsletter John McWhorter The New N-Word Standard Isn’t Progress Feb. 11, 2022 Credit... The New York Times By Opinion Writer Over roughly the past two decades, American mores have bee

I Am What I Am Revised from the original written in 1999, as my view and experience of radical unschooling has expanded. Also, as Jacob has grown and expanded himSelf, it was important to me to revise

Children’s Books J.K. Rowling on the Magic of ‘Things’ Credit... Jim Field I own a cuddly tortoise sewn by my mother, which she gave me when I was 7. It has a floral shell, a red underbelly and black

The New York Times is like God, who, if Genesis reported Creation correctly, beheld His handiwork and decided “it was very good.” The Times is comparably pleased with itself concerning its creation, “

Blockchain & Cryptocurrency Laws and Regulations 2023 | Japan Blockchain & Cryptocurrency Regulation 2023 | Japan covers subjects including 1 Government attitude and definition 2 Virtual currency regu

At the dawn of the Neolithic revolution, which occurred around 10,000 years ago, humans began eating less raw wild foods and more processed meals. A study published in Science shows how this reduction of pressure on the teeth caused changes in the way the human jaw developed and grew. Adults of the…

Thirty years ago, someone taught me to say actor rather than actress and chairperson rather than chairman , to discourage our thinking of occupational performance as elementally distinct depending on

Ross Douthat The Excesses of Antiracist Education July 3, 2021 Credit... Fabrice Picard/Agence VU, via Redux By Opinion Columnist In my last column I tried to describe part of the current controversy

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I am an anthropologist and economist who went down the Bitcoin rabbit hole. I wrote this paper to clarify my thoughts about why these two disciplines respond so differently to Bitcoin. What Is Anthrop

Back in 2018, my fiancée and I went to see Black Panther on opening weekend. As we stood in line for popcorn, we marveled at how many people there were decked out in costumes and traditional African garb to celebrate the occasion. "You should have dressed up, represented your Nigerian heritage," my…

What to KnowTsunami Warning: What to DoSurvival Kit TipsHow Quakes Are MeasuredInside Earth’s Inner Core Many of Rina Tsugawa’s peers have left for jobs in cities, an outflow common to rural Japan but accelerated by the tsunami and nuclear meltdowns in Fukushima. Ms. Tsugawa has different plans.…

Cherokee Nation Addresses Bias Against Descendants of Enslaved People The tribe’s Supreme Court excised language from its constitution that limited the citizenship rights of descendants of Black peopl

Our world is shrinking, so to speak. It’s now possible to send communication to the other side of the world in an instant, and perhaps even more impressive, to physically travel to the other side of t