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When Sons Become Daughters, Part IV: Parents of Transitioning Boys Speak Out on Their Own Suffering

Published by Angus Fox

What follows is the fourth instalment of When Sons Become Daughters, a multi-part Quillette series that explores how parents react when a son announces he wants to be a...

April 21, 2021
Activism, Culture Wars, Diversity Debate, Family, Health, Identity, Mental Health, Regressive Left, Sex, Spotlight, Women

Top Stories

The Ugly History of Rape Panics

Published by Jerry Barnett

The abduction and murder of Sarah Everard in London on March 3rd created a wave of outrage and protest. It is easy to understand why a crime like this...

April 22, 2021
Activism, Crime, Feminism, Politics, Top Stories

Stopped Cold: Remembering Russia’s Catastrophic 1939 Campaign Against Finland

Published by Sean McMeekin

While the Germans had been flexible on the fine print of their August 23rd, 1939 non-aggression pact with the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin had been meticulous with his own...

April 20, 2021
Europe, History, Russia, Top Stories, World Affairs

Europe, China, and the New Global Hierarchy

Published by Aaron Sarin

Seen from Beijing, Europe is an Asian peninsula. ~Angela Merkel For more than 20 years the Chinese Communist Party engaged the world wearing the mask of smiling diplomacy, and...

April 19, 2021
China, Europe, Politics, Top Stories, World Affairs

Australian Indigenous Activists Call Out White Feminism’s Deadly Blind Spot

Published by Edie Wyatt

In March, three Indigenous women flew to Canberra in an attempt to draw attention to a horror story playing out in their communities. These were Alice Springs Deputy Mayor...

April 19, 2021
Australia, Culture Wars, Feminism, Human Rights, Identity, Top Stories, Women

Podcast 145: Sean McMeekin on ‘Stalin’s War: A New History of World War II’

Published by Quillette Magazine

Quillette’s Jonathan Kay speaks with Bard University history professor Sean McMeekin about his new book, which describes how the fears and ambitions of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin shaped the...

April 18, 2021
Podcast, Top Stories

Rinaldo Walcott’s On Property—A Review

Published by Jonathan Salem-Wiseman

A review of On Property by Rinaldo Walcott. Biblioasis, 96 pages (May 25th, 2021) The true founder of civil society was the first man who, having enclosed a piece...

April 18, 2021
BLM, Books, Crime, History, Human Rights, Top Stories

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Podcast 145: Sean McMeekin on ‘Stalin’s War: A New History of World War II’

Published by Quillette Magazine

Quillette’s Jonathan Kay speaks with Bard University history professor Sean McMeekin about his new book, which describes how the fears and ambitions of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin shaped the...

April 18, 2021
Podcast, Top Stories

Podcast 144: James Kirchick on ‘The Disintegration of the ACLU’

Published by Quillette Magazine

Quillette‘s Jonathan Kay talks to author James Kirchick about his recent Tablet article documenting how the American Civil Liberties Union abandoned its core mission in favor of doctrinaire progressive...

April 9, 2021
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Podcast 143: Daphne Merkin on the Baseless Abuse Claims Against Woody Allen—And Why The Media Refuses to Let Them Die

Published by Quillette Magazine

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks to Daphne Merkin about HBO’s highly torqued documentary, Allen v. Farrow, and the dubious claims it contains. Merkin, who wrote a widely discussed...

April 4, 2021
Podcast

Podcast 142: Nancy Rommelmann and Michael Totten on Portland’s Descent Into Violence—And Why They Finally Decided to Flee

Published by Quillette Magazine

Quillette‘s Jonathan Kay talks to two ex-Portlanders—Nancy Rommelmann and Michael Totten—about how the COVID-19 pandemic and a year of violent protests turned their once beloved city into a fractured,...

March 28, 2021
Podcast, Top Stories

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For Our Own Good, We All Need a Glimpse of the Evil Queen

Published by Jordan Peterson

I had a client many years ago who was a real-life version of Sleeping Beauty. She was tall, blonde-haired, razor thin (as the saying goes), and profoundly unhappy. She...

March 7, 2021
Canada, Must Reads, Psychology, Top Stories, Women

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Activism, Crime, Feminism, Politics, Top Stories

The Ugly History of Rape Panics

The abduction and murder of Sarah Everard in London on March 3rd created a wave of outrage and protest. It is easy to understand why a crime like this...

April 22, 2021
Europe, History, Russia, Top Stories, World Affairs

Stopped Cold: Remembering Russia’s Catastrophic 1939 Campaign Against Finland

While the Germans had been flexible on the fine print of their August 23rd, 1939 non-aggression pact with the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin had been meticulous with his own...

April 20, 2021
China, Europe, Politics, Top Stories, World Affairs

Europe, China, and the New Global Hierarchy

Seen from Beijing, Europe is an Asian peninsula. ~Angela Merkel For more than 20 years the Chinese Communist Party engaged the world wearing the mask of smiling diplomacy, and...

April 19, 2021
Australia, Culture Wars, Feminism, Human Rights, Identity, Top Stories, Women

Australian Indigenous Activists Call Out White Feminism’s Deadly Blind Spot

In March, three Indigenous women flew to Canberra in an attempt to draw attention to a horror story playing out in their communities. These were Alice Springs Deputy Mayor...

April 19, 2021
Podcast, Top Stories

Podcast 145: Sean McMeekin on ‘Stalin’s War: A New History of World War II’

Quillette’s Jonathan Kay speaks with Bard University history professor Sean McMeekin about his new book, which describes how the fears and ambitions of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin shaped the...

April 18, 2021
BLM, Books, Crime, History, Human Rights, Top Stories

Rinaldo Walcott’s On Property—A Review

A review of On Property by Rinaldo Walcott. Biblioasis, 96 pages (May 25th, 2021) The true founder of civil society was the first man who, having enclosed a piece...

April 18, 2021
Economics, Education, Identity, Politics, Social Science, Top Stories

The Permanence of Segregation

[It] is sentimental and romantic to assume that any education or any example will ever completely destroy the inclination of human nature to seek special advantages at the expense...

April 16, 2021
Activism, COVID-19, Culture, Culture Wars, Diversity, Health, Identity, Mental Health, Privilege, Psychology, Science, Sex, Top Stories

The Search to Explain Our Anxiety and Depression: Will ‘Long COVID’ Become the Next Gender Ideology?

In December, I wrote a detailed report for Quillette about the race-based social panic that had recently erupted at Haverford College in Pennsylvania. One of the reasons why the...

April 15, 2021
Art, COVID-19, Entertainment, Philosophy, Sport, Top Stories

Splendid Triviality: Philosophy, Art, and Sport in a Time of Crisis

One of my philosophy professors in college remarked that philosophy flourishes in a time of decline or crisis. No, that doesn’t mean that philosophers all secretly pray for catastrophes....

April 14, 2021
Diversity, Diversity Debate, Education, Identity, Privilege, Top Stories

Can You Teach Children to be Anti-Racist?

In 1935, Richard Clarke Cabot, a professor of clinical medicine and social ethics at Harvard University, began one of the first randomized controlled experiments in the field of social...

April 13, 2021

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Leaving Portland

by Michael J. Totten

Portland, Oregon, has been the most politically violent city in the United States since Donald Trump was elected in 2016. Just a few days after the result, a peaceful protest against the incoming president turned into a riot when anarchists broke off from the main group and rampaged through the Pearl District, a renovated SoHo-like neighborhood adjacent to downtown packed with art galleries, loft...

March 14, 2021
Activism, Crime, Culture Wars, Long Read, Memoir, Recommended, Top Stories

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