The Trouble with Chinamaxxers
Gen Z calls it Chinamaxxing. But the West's new infatuation with China is less a triumph of Communist Party soft power than a symptom of our own decline.
Aaron Sarin
· 9 min read
Hiroshima: A Hinge Point for Humanity
Kiyoshi Tanimoto’s extraordinary testimony about the Hiroshima attack and its aftermath has been published by his daughter some forty years after his death.
Michael M. Rosen
· 7 min read
History Uprooted
A new exhibition at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg peddles PLO myths about Israel’s war for independence in 1948.
Jeffrey Herf
· 13 min read
I, Victim
Pascal Bruckner’s book about victimhood culture invites us to choose liberation, and to move from resentment to a secular kind of grace.
Marilyn Simon
· 9 min read
Australia Is Sick: Misha Saul on What Went Wrong
Investor Misha Saul joins Claire Lehmann to discuss Australia’s declining productivity, immigration policy, and the political choices shaping the country’s future.
Claire Lehmann
· 28 min read
Banning the Horseless Carriage
Bernie Sanders wants to outlaw artificial superintelligence. The risks he points to are real—but the answer to a powerful new technology is regulation, not prohibition, and China has no intention of pausing.
John Aziz
· 10 min read
Myths and Illusions of the Digital Age
The digital revolution is not remaking the world as the industrial one did.
Shalom Lappin
· 13 min read
Zineb Riboua on Islamism, Israel and the West’s New Culture War | Quillette Cetera Episode 72
Political analyst Zineb Riboua discusses Iran’s declining influence, the Houthis, Turkey’s ambitions, Israel’s changing role in the Middle East, Islamist radicalisation in Europe, AI doomerism, third-worldism and the West’s demographic decline.
Zoe Sankey
· 29 min read
Citizen Sane
The mainstreaming of therapy culture may be driving us all out of our minds.
Steve Salerno
· 18 min read
‘This Country Is But One Scene of Massacre’
In the 31st instalment of ‘Nations of Canada,’ Greg Koabel describes the violent provocations that tipped the St. Lawrence region into all out war in the late 1640s.
Greg Koabel
· 25 min read
The Price of Affirmative Action in Canadian Academia
Podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Eric Kaufmann about his new report, ‘The Equity-Excellence Trade-Off: A Study of EDI in the Canada Research Chairs Program’
Quillette, Eric Kaufmann
· 23 min read
The Ape in the Basement
Why is masturbation so shameful?
Robert Lynch
· 13 min read
Richard Landes on Jihad and the Apocalyptic Mind
A medievalist on apocalyptic movements, shame–honour cultures, and why he believes the Western press has spent twenty-five years reporting jihad backwards.
Pamela Paresky, Richard Landes
· 47 min read
Our Foreign Aid System Is Broken. Thanks to Trump, We Have a Chance to Rebuild It
During my three-decade career as a diplomat and international-development manager, I saw the sector become more wasteful, frivolous, and ideologically self-serving.
Mark McDowell
· 12 min read