Sohale Andrus Mortazavi

Mar 31, 2024 | quillette.com | Stephanie Hayton |Julia Friedman |Sohale Andrus Mortazavi

Earlier this year, Bristol, UK-based teacher, writer, and trade unionist Debbie Hayton released Transsexual Apostate: My Journey Back to Reality, a book that candidly describes the biologically male author’s struggle with autogynephilia, transition to a female gender identification, and growing estrangement from the mainstream orthodoxies of transgender activism.

Mar 28, 2024 | quillette.com | Sohale Andrus Mortazavi |Cincinnatus Smith |Jaspreet Singh Boparai |Megan Gafford

A review of How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement by Fredrik deBoer, 256 pages, Simon & Schuster (September 2023). The left is undergoing an overdue reckoning. Progressive mass movements have achieved little more than mass in recent years. Occupy Wall Street didn’t beget economic redistribution, to say nothing of Marxist revolution. Large-scale marches for gun control and climate action produced neither.

Sep 21, 2023 | quillette.com | Sohale Andrus Mortazavi |Hannah Gal |Marco den Ouden

A review of Nobody’s Fool: Why We Get Taken In and What We Can Do About It by Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris, 336 pages, Basic Books (July 2023). We are, according to a number of recent commentators, in a golden age of grift. Pyramid schemes are on the rise. Scammers are raking it in like never before. Shameless promotion of nonsensical cryptocurrency, NFT, and “Web3” projects is impossible to avoid.