FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

A personal essay by our new columnist, Clay Routledge, about the problems he sees with modern virtue.

An excerpt from Heather Mac Donald's book, The Diversity Delusion: How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University.

Two Swedish academics argue that social constructivism mixed with capitalism is having a disastrous effect.

In The Virtue of Nationalism, Yoram Hazony goes squarely against the prevailing narrative, as the title suggests.

An excerpt of Francis Fukuyama's Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment.

A short history of the anti-imperialist Left's dalliances with Third World figures with terrible track records.

Norm Macdonald got himself in hot water before his new Netflix show aired. It's a new world for the old school.


In a preview of the upcoming debut of our podcast, Jonathan Kay and Daphne Merkin discuss the stir the article has caused, details of the complicated life of Soon-Yi and Woody Allen, and journalism in the #metoo era.
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Hello Quilletters,

Another week, another defenestration. This time it’s Ian Buruma, forced to resign his post as editor of the New York Review of Books after publishing an essay written by Jian Ghomeshi—a disgraced Canadian radio journalist who was acquitted on several charges of sexual assault back in 2016. Buruma said in Slate :
 
I’m no judge of the rights and wrongs of every allegation. How can I be? All I know is that in a court of law he was acquitted, and there is no proof he committed a crime. The exact nature of his behaviour—how much consent was involved—I have no idea, nor is it really my concern.


Views on the news, delivered in twos.

On social, so many so-called progressives will loudly proclaim their virtue ...

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When even the traditional definition of knowledge is under attack, surely problems in the schools follow.

The more research we do, the more we realize that much of human potential is already encoded in our genes.

A chorus of detractors take on Harris' ideas on religion, especially his view that poor beliefs beget bad actions.

In 2017, Geimer requested that the rape case involving she and Roman Polanski be dismissed. Is she a victim?

College cheating is rampant, especially online. Professors often know. A behind-the-scenes look at the problem.
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CLAY ROUTLEDGE
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I am a behavioural scientist, writer, consultant, and professor of psychology at North Dakota State University. I have published over 100 academic papers and co-edited two books. Much of my work focuses on the human need to find and maintain meaning. My writing has appeared in The New York Times, National Review, The Wall Street Journal , and Scientific American .