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Covering the Culture Wars

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This week, my guest is what might be called an ideal Quillette thinker. And by that I mean someone who started out on one side of the left-right culture war, got exasperated by all the intellectual dishonesty he saw within his or her ideological tribe, and then drifted more toward centrist classical liberalism, all the while taking a scientifically rigorous approach to each issue. This anti-tribal approach to policy and politics can be a lonely affair.
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Women’s Sport or ‘Transformational’ Activism: It Can’t Be Both

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Earlier this month, the Women's National Basketball Players Association put out a statement to address unanswered questions about the participation of biologically male players in the WNBA. As one might have expected, it consisted mostly of bromides about “justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion” (good); and “hate, abuse…fear, division, and harm” (bad).
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No, the Media Isn’t Responsible for Jason Arday’s Suicide

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No true culture warrior worth his salt admits to reading The New York Times. Very Online conservatives refuse to read it because they think it hates Jews. Very Online progressives refuse to read it because they think it hates trans people. So intense is their loathing, it seems, that some of these hashtaggers cannot even tolerate the company of those who do read the Times. This includes one @claireyfaerie, who recently told Bluesky followers: “My parents have a [New York Times] subscription.
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