The Evisceration of Hong Kong From laissez-faire to lèse-majesté: an embarrassment in four fits. Geoff Privisant 11 Feb 2025 · 13 min read
Sticking to Reality Humankind’s propensity to believe convenient fiction is as old and strong as our propensity for war. The United States needs to adopt a pragmatic deterrence strategy. Gary Geipel 11 Feb 2025 · 6 min read
The Great Unfinished Generational Epic George R.R. Martin, the Strauss-Howe theory of history, and the failure of the Baby Boomers. Jason Garshfield 10 Feb 2025 · 26 min read
Misreading a Flawed Study Vaccination against UTIs is a novel idea that holds enormous promise, but clinical trials must be well-designed and carefully analysed. Geoffrey C. Kabat 10 Feb 2025 · 5 min read
American Exceptionalism Reconsidered Exceptionalism is a double-edged sword, which cuts those blind to America’s flaws and those blind to its virtues. Brian Stewart 10 Feb 2025 · 7 min read
Trump and the DEI Counter-Revolution Civil-rights law made the DEI world; civil-rights reform can unmake it. Thomas F. Powers 8 Feb 2025 · 44 min read
Podcast #271: The Canadian Episode—Trump’s Tariffs and Trudeau’s Travails Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with The Line editor Jen Gerson about how US President Donald Trump’s tariff threats have affected Canada’s already fractured political landscape. Quillette 8 Feb 2025 · 14 min read
Gaz-a-Largo So far, Donald Trump is the only political leader to have publicly pinpointed the basic problem with Gaza. Benny Morris 8 Feb 2025 · 12 min read
Fentanyl in America: Geography of a Crisis There are no quick and easy solutions to America’s illegal fentanyl problem. Robert C. Thornett 7 Feb 2025 · 11 min read
Mammy Dearest Richard Bernstein’s new book about Al Jolson and ‘The Jazz Singer’ offers a thoughtful reconsideration of an unfairly reviled cultural landmark. Graham Daseler 6 Feb 2025 · 14 min read
In Praise of Antiquity’s Grande Dames Daisy Dunn’s new book argues that the great female poets, heroines, and martyrs of the ancient world tied history together with a ‘missing thread.’ Joan Smith 6 Feb 2025 · 19 min read
A Pointless Economic Attack on America’s Northern Neighbour Many Canadian conservatives were warming to Donald Trump—until he threatened to destroy their economy with crippling tariffs. Jonathan Kay 5 Feb 2025 · 8 min read
Burning the Quran Are we going to defend liberty, openness, and democracy, or are we going to allow radical theocrats and their ideological allies to try to crush our hard-won freedoms? John Aziz 5 Feb 2025 · 6 min read
The Great Divergence Many psychological and behavioural gaps between men and women have widened in more gender-equal countries, dealing a major blow to sociological theories of sex differences. David C. Geary / Lewis G. Halsey 4 Feb 2025 · 8 min read
Protecting Women’s Volleyball—Then and Now When I played pro volleyball twenty years ago, I never heard anyone seriously argue that biological differences between men and women aren’t important. Such a claim would have been laughable. Megan Willis 4 Feb 2025 · 7 min read
