Australian Healthcare’s Darkest Hour
The NSW nurses have not just threatened individual patients—they have desecrated what it means to be Australian.
Claire Lehmann
· 4 min read
The Evisceration of Hong Kong
From laissez-faire to lèse-majesté: an embarrassment in four fits.
Geoff Privisant
· 13 min read
Information Warfare: Why America Needs a Deterrence Strategy
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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 8 min read