Its articles are not as relentlessly full of anti-21st century grievance as Quillette's but that's not a high bar.
Meanwhile it has much in common with Quillette.
1. Areo is a sausage party
At recent glance Quillette's front page bylines consisted of 24 men and six women. Looking at Areo Magazine this is the gender breakdown on the front page without clicking the "Load More" button at the bottom. The count is 26 men, three women, and of the three, two of them are Areo's editors.
- Gabriel Andrade
- Mitchell Blatt
- Kevin Butterhof
- Logan Chipkin
- Jonathan Church
- Martin Countach
- Allen Farrington
- Norbert Francis
- Shane Fraser
- William Garcia
- Megan Gafford
- Iona Italia
- Matt Johnson
- Ahnaf Kalam
- James Kierstead
- Cody Kommers
- James A. Lindsay
- Matthew McManus
- Helen Pluckrose
- C. K. Ryan
- Chris Sabaitis
- George Schifini
- Pavio Shopin
- Wael Taji
- Phillip Theofanos
- M. "Lorenzo" Warby
- Galen Watts
- Blake Winter
- John Wood, Jr.
2. Areo publishes many of the same authors as Quillette
Of those listed above, Jonathan Church, Allen Farrington, Matt Johnson, James Kierstead, Matthew McManus, Chris Sabaitis, George Schifini, Wael Taji, Galen Watts and John Wood, Jr. - that's ten, have bylines in Quillette. In his byline C. K. Ryan (a pseudonym) claims to be published in Quillette although I was unable to find it. And then there are the race science proponents published in both: Razib Khan, Bo Winegard, Ben Winegard. There are almost certainly others.
3. Helen Pluckrose is a long-time member of the Quillette crowd
- When Helen Pluckrose and her pals hoaxed gender studies publications, it was relentlessly publicized in Quillette.
- Pluckrose was part of the James Damore Memorial Freespeech Grifter Circus along with Quillette regular Andy Ngo and Christina Hoff Sommers, so memorably recounted by GQ.
- Pluckrose and right-wing professional misogynist Sommers have a long-time mutual-admiration society.
4. Areo loves the "Intellectual Dark Web"
When Sam Harris and Ezra Klein debated, Areo took Harris's side - and in fact seems to have a real antagonism towards Klein. It often defends Charles Murray and even Milo Yiannopoulos. It adores Steven Pinker - although most of the media does, after all, as Pinker will be the first to tell you even though he blames the media in part for the radicalizing the alt-right. They admire Jordan Peterson, although not quite as much as Quillette.
5. Areo supports Evolutionary Psychology 100%
On searching through its archives, not a single article that mentions EP criticizes it. Rather the opposite, in articles like Gad Saad on Hysteria and “Collective Munchausen” around Donald Trump, Speaking Out as an Academic, and Evolutionary Psychology 101.
6. Areo also attacks Green Energy & Promotes Nuclear Energy
Quillette and Areo have differences, but they are fundamentally more alike than different. And I would not be at all surprised to discover they have many of the same funders.
