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Check out Quillette's latest video, Challenging Traditional Gender Roles: It's Okay To Not Be The Breadwinner #shorts
Challenging Traditional Gender Roles: It's Okay To Not Be The Breadwinner #shorts#debrasohwww.youtube.comHomer’s epic provides a window on to a strange, paradoxical, fascinating, beautiful, and terrifying world that is at once familiar and unfamiliar.
Capturing the ‘Odyssey’Homer’s epic provides a window on to a strange, paradoxical, fascinating, beautiful, and terrifying world that is at once familiar and unfamiliar. quillette.comArtists increasingly insist that their work and their politics are indivisible. They should not be surprised when the institutions that fund them agree.
Biting the HandArtists increasingly insist that their work and their politics are indivisible. They should not be surprised when the institutions that fund them agree.quillette.comThe evidence for innate sex differences has been accumulating for decades. Steve Stewart-Williams's new book is a welcome inventory.
Sex Differences Above the NeckThe evidence for innate sex differences has been accumulating for decades. Steve Stewart-Williams's new book is a welcome inventory.quillette.comCheck out Quillette's latest video, Who Gets a Platform for Jew-Hate in Ireland? Rachel Moiselle
Who Gets a Platform for Jew-Hate in Ireland? Rachel MoiselleWhere does antisemitism get a respectable hearing in Ireland?
Not the neo-Nazi right, says Rachel Moiselle — they're radioactive to any serious outlet. It's antisemitism from the left, she argues, that gets "free rein."
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#antisemitism #Ireland #Israel #Jewish #Dublinwww.youtube.comCheck out Quillette's latest video, Fertility Myth Busted by Debra Soh
Fertility Myth Busted by Debra Soh#debrasohwww.youtube.comChristopher Nolan‘s creation is a big movie in every technical sense. But inside, it is diminished and faded: heroes who aren’t allowed to be heroes and gods who aren’t allowed to be gods.
A Beautiful Odyssey, Made Dreary By RemorseChristopher Nolan‘s creation is a big movie in every technical sense. But inside, it is diminished and faded: heroes who aren’t allowed to be heroes and gods who aren’t allowed to be gods.quillette.comCheck out Quillette's latest video, Bondi Massacre: Irish Society Criticized, Outrage Ensues #shorts
Bondi Massacre: Irish Society Criticized, Outrage Ensues #shortsA measured piece by Rachel Moiselle acknowledging antisemitism sparked an uproar and weeks of abuse. The call to listen to the Jewish community was met with backlash. #Antisemitism #Society #Backlash #Communitywww.youtube.comCheck out Quillette's latest video, Decolonisation, October 7, and the Ideology That Justified a Massacre | Maarten Boudry
Decolonisation, October 7, and the Ideology That Justified a Massacre | Maarten BoudryPhilosopher Maarten Boudry once treated the push to decolonise the philosophy curriculum as harmless academic fashion. Then 7 October happened, and he watched the same ideology reshape how universities responded to a massacre.
In this narration, Boudry traces how a framework he had dismissed as virtue signalling revealed itself as a rigid moral system, one that sorts the world into absolute oppressors and innocent victims and leaves no space for moral ambiguity. He examines the open letters from his own university and the University of Amsterdam, the refusal to condemn Hamas, the celebration of "resistance", and the genocide claims that appeared within days. It is an account of how quickly progressive academic rhetoric became a justification for mass violence, and of the personal reckoning that followed.
Read more at Quillette: https://quillette.com/2026/04/20/what-did-you-think-decolonisation-meant-october-7-academia/
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00:00 Decolonisation looked harmless, until 7 October
02:18 How 7 October exposed decolonisation as a rigid moral framework
04:50 University statements and how far the language had spread
07:22 The backlash hardens into anti-Israel and antisemitic narratives
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Quillette is an Australian-based online magazine that focuses on long-form analysis and cultural commentary. It is politically non-partisan, but relies on reason, science, and humanism as its guiding values.
Quillette was founded in 2015 by Australian writer Claire Lehmann. It is a platform for free thought and a space for open discussion and debate on a wide range of topics, including politics, culture, science, and technology.
Quillette has gained attention for publishing articles and essays that challenge modern orthodoxy on a variety of topics, including gender and sexuality, race and identity politics, and free speech and censorship.
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Is the Pro-Palestine Movement Israel’s Unlikely Ally?By framing terrorism and armed struggle as legitimate resistance, the pro-Palestine movement has unwittingly strengthened Israel’s case that withdrawal and concessions carry unacceptable risks.quillette.comCheck out Quillette's latest video, Science Denial Is RUINING Relationships & Dating! EXPLAINED #shorts
Science Denial Is RUINING Relationships & Dating! EXPLAINED #shortsEnjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.www.youtube.comCheck out Quillette's latest video, Rachel Moiselle: Why I Speak Out
Rachel Moiselle: Why I Speak OutFrom a PhD student to an accidental influencer, Rachel Moiselle grapples with a growing platform and the compulsion to speak out against injustice, especially anti-Semitism. Driven by a deep love for the Jewish community, the journey is one of navigating public attention and staying true to one's convictions. #SocialMedia #Activism #JewishCommunity #PhDLife #Couragewww.youtube.comCheck out Quillette's latest video, Why Do Many Irish People Hate Israel? Unpacking the Complex Reasons #shorts
Why Do Many Irish People Hate Israel? Unpacking the Complex Reasons #shortsWhy the strong Irish sentiment towards Israel? It's a cocktail of factors: seeing themselves in the Palestinian struggle, a move from Catholicism to new belief structures, and anti-Zionism becoming a core part of Irish identity. More than just politics, it's often seen as faith. #IrishPolitics #MiddleEastConflict #CulturalAnalysis #Identitywww.youtube.comMen are quietly leaving the workforce—not for lack of jobs, but for lack of purpose.
Men Without MeaningMen are quietly leaving the workforce—not for lack of jobs, but for lack of purpose.quillette.comCheck out Quillette's latest video, Breadwinner Women: Debra Soh
Breadwinner Women: Debra SohEnjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.www.youtube.comIn the 30th instalment of ‘Nations of Canada,’ Greg Koabel describes the expanding Jesuit presence of the late 1630s—and the increasingly bitter opposition it provoked among France’s local Indigenous allies.
The Rise of Sainte-Marie Among the HuronsIn the 30th instalment of ‘Nations of Canada,’ Greg Koabel describes the expanding Jesuit presence of the late 1630s—and the increasingly bitter opposition it provoked among France’s local Indigenous allies.quillette.comCheck out Quillette's latest video, Sex Bots & AI: Are Men Ditching Real Relationships? #shorts
Sex Bots & AI: Are Men Ditching Real Relationships? #shorts#debrasohwww.youtube.comQuillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to Debra Soh, author of ‘Sextinction: The Decline of Sex and the Future of Intimacy,’ about neuroscience, hypergamy, elephant seals, politicised sex research, the perils of polyamory, and the sex-repellent scourge of ’phubbing.’
The ‘Sex Recession’ is RealQuillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to Debra Soh, author of ‘Sextinction: The Decline of Sex and the Future of Intimacy,’ about neuroscience, hypergamy, elephant seals, politicised sex research, the perils of polyamory, and the sex-repellent scourge of ’phubbing.’quillette.comCheck out Quillette's latest video, Debra Soh: Why the Sex Recession Is Real | Dating Apps, Porn & AI Companions
Debra Soh: Why the Sex Recession Is Real | Dating Apps, Porn & AI CompanionsNeuroscientist and writer Debra Soh joins Jonathan Kay to discuss her new book Sexinction, a study of intimacy, alienation, and the widening gap between how humans are wired and how we now live.
Soh explains why she came to accept that the "sex recession" is real across developed countries, and why she sees it as a symptom of a broader decline in emotional intimacy rather than a simple change in behaviour. The conversation ranges across the forces behind the trend: smartphones, pornography, dating apps, and the growing market for sex dolls, sex robots, and AI companions.
They also discuss ideological distortion in academic sex research, hypergamy and a splitting dating market, the limits of "lean in" advice given biological timelines, polyamory and jealousy, "phubbing" and everyday disconnection, and Soh's critical take on kink, pornography, and sex-positivity. Soh argues that denying biological differences between men and women pushes people toward worse decisions and fuels reactive manosphere backlash, and that her aim is not to shame but to help people avoid harm and heal.
Chapters:
00:00 A personal introduction and the book's central idea
04:50 Debra Soh's scientific background and the case for a sex recession
09:19 Academic bias and why sex research gets distorted
13:04 Technology, sex dolls, and artificial intimacy
16:36 Dating apps and the decline of satisfying relationships
19:18 Swiping, matching, and rarely building anything real
21:23 Hypergamy, status, and the changing dating market
24:10 Why men should initiate and women should vet carefully
27:56 A critique of "lean in" advice
31:10 Unrealistic expectations and the "three sixes" ideal
36:40 The pressure to be visibly "perfect"
37:49 Polyamory, jealousy, and why the model often fails women
42:30 House-husband narratives and progressive relationship ideals
50:02 Biology, hypergamy, and why denial creates backlash
52:34 Phubbing and everyday intimacy breakdown
54:52 Sexlessness and the academic orthodoxy she would challenge
57:39 Why these practices deserve scrutiny, not automatic approval
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Quillette is an Australian-based online magazine that focuses on long-form analysis and cultural commentary. It is politically non-partisan, but relies on reason, science, and humanism as its guiding values.
Quillette was founded in 2015 by Australian writer Claire Lehmann. It is a platform for free thought and a space for open discussion and debate on a wide range of topics, including politics, culture, science, and technology.
Quillette has gained attention for publishing articles and essays that challenge modern orthodoxy on a variety of topics, including gender and sexuality, race and identity politics, and free speech and censorship.
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Blood, Progress, and AmnesiaThere is real value in Noah Rothman's century-spanning chronicle of left-wing terror, but it falls short in analysis.quillette.com