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Razib Khan, Robin Hanson, and Eliezer Yudkowsky. Background image is the Lighthaven conference venue.

In Defence of Manifest 2024

The Guardian’s reporting on a gathering of heterodox thinkers is truly lamentable journalism.

Theo Jaffee

19 Jun 2024 · 8 min read

Podcast #239: Justin Trudeau’s Ominous Online Harms Act: ‘Minority Report’ Comes to Canada

Jonathan Kay talks to Atlantic Magazine staff writer Conor Friedersdorf about a censorious government bill that would allow officials to investigate Canadians for things they haven’t done yet.

Quillette

19 Jun 2024 · 14 min read

1960s FAMILY PORTRAIT OUTSIDE SUBURBAN HOUSE PARENTS 3 THREE KIDS

The Road to Neo-Feudalism

Western societies stand on the brink of a great reversion towards a demographically and economically stagnant society reminiscent of the Dark Ages.

Joel Kotkin

19 Jun 2024 · 9 min read

Students holding Israel flags in front of a banner stating "Safe Space for Jewish Students."

The Choice

Should Jewish students accept the mantle of a marginalised group or reject DEI ideology altogether?

David B Rush

18 Jun 2024 · 13 min read

Colourful plastic bottle tops in a recycling bin.

Recycling Plastic Is a Dangerous Waste of Time

The recycling industry—and the world at large—has yet to fully reckon with a bombshell study that dropped last year.

Frank Celia

17 Jun 2024 · 17 min read

Black and white photograph of John Money, seated at his desk, in shirt and tie.

In Defence of John Money

How did this famed sexologist become reviled at both ends of the culture-war horseshoe?

Alex Byrne

16 Jun 2024 · 12 min read

Journalists Shouldn’t Depend on the State for Their Wages

More than a third of many Canadian journalists’ salaries are now effectively being paid by Justin Trudeau’s government—an arrangement that’s created an obvious conflict of interest.

Jonathan Kay

14 Jun 2024 · 9 min read

A young woman in a keffiyeh wrapped around her face. She is in a crowd of pro-Palestine supporters

Something Is Wrong

It is time for leftists to forego ideology and embrace a people-centred politics.

Michael Walzer

14 Jun 2024 · 11 min read

A still from The Chocolate War. 4 boys in coats stand on the roadside.

Too Much Chocolate

Fifty years of Robert Cormier’s “classic” young-adult novel is more than enough.

Kevin Mims

13 Jun 2024 · 9 min read

Nicholas D. Kristof speaking. World Economic Forum in the background.

Vapid Antiwar-ism

Since 7 October, Nicholas Kristof has produced a torrent of outraged testimony that betrays a refusal to grapple with the world as it is.

Brian Stewart

13 Jun 2024 · 9 min read

Podcast #238: Supporting Trans People Without Denying the Facts of Biology

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to Duke University law school professor (and former US National Collegiate athletic champion) Doriane Lambelet Coleman about her new book, ‘On Sex and Gender: A Commonsense Approach.’

Jonathan Kay / Doriane Lambelet Coleman

12 Jun 2024 · 25 min read

Vishnu and Lakshmi (left), meeting Shiva, Parvati, and Ganesha (right), mounted on elephants.

A Different Way of Doing Atheism

Indian philosophical traditions such as Nāstika and Nirīśvaravāda offer the West’s angry ‘neo-atheists’ a more nuanced model for channelling their religious disbelief.