The Commentary

Home
Archive
Leaderboard
About
The Quiet Death Of Antiracism
At the beginning of last year, in a piece for The Atlantic, Nellie Bowles described the mood at a four-day antiracist cult…excuse me, Zoom seminar she…
 • 
Steve QJ
5
Trans Women Are Not Women. And That's Okay.
Jan 13th, 2024. India Willoughby, a reality TV-grade celebrity and trans woman, writes a (now deleted) tweet about kidnapping three women: Scottish MP…
 • 
Steve QJ
25
Luigi Mangione And The Renaissance Of Class Warfare
January 21st, 1793. After years of soaring living costs, failed harvests, and ongoing political turmoil, millions of members of France's working class…
 • 
Steve QJ
31

December 2024

The Problematic Dream Of A Black Israel
In her review of Ta-Nehisi Coates' latest book, The Message, Helen Andrews offered a controversial explanation for Coates’ objections to the…
 • 
Steve QJ
30
Daniel Penny And The Uncomfortable Reality Of “Stepping Up”
On March 13th, 1964, in the early hours of the morning, a serial killer named Winston Moseley attacked a woman by the name of Kitty Genovese, stabbing…
 • 
Steve QJ
10
Who’s Keeping Men In The Basement Addicted To Porn?
I’m not sure how, but I’ve made something of a career for myself by pointing out utterly banal, not-remotely controversial facts:
 • 
Steve QJ
80
Why White American Men Chose The Bear
In mid-2024, for a couple of weeks, the biggest question on social media was whether women were better off alone in the woods with a randomly selected…
 • 
Steve QJ
15

November 2024

Why I’m Not Surprised Black People Voted For Trump
On May 22nd, 2020, during an episode of the Breakfast Club podcast, soon-to-be-president Joe Biden delivered a seventeen-minute and fifty-nine-second…
 • 
Steve QJ
8
Why Would I Lie About Being Black?
I was about 90% done with the next instalment of my series (this time about why I’m not surprised black people voted for Trump (I'll be posting the…
 • 
Steve QJ
16
Why I’m Not Surprised Women Voted For Trump
On November 9th, nestled amongst the outrage and analysis surrounding Trump’s election, a two-minute-seven-second clip on CNN captured the frustrations…
 • 
Steve QJ
36
The Art Of Losing An Election
3:35 pm. The day after Donald Trump's election victory. I log onto Twitter and find an infographic of voters broken down by race and gender. And sure…
 • 
Steve QJ
12
The Tectonic Triumph of Trump.
On November 3rd, 2020, at the stroke of midnight, the residents of Dixville Notch, New Hampshire, gathered in the township’s fabled “Ballot Room” and…
 • 
Steve QJ
61
© 2025 Steve QJ
Privacy ∙ Terms ∙ Collection notice
Start WritingGet the app
Substack is the home for great culture