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
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
· 7 min read
Sage of Sex and Psyche
Remembering Don Symons (1942–2024).
Steven Pinker
· 12 min read
Architecture as Revenge
Brady Corbet’s panoramic epic, ‘The Brutalist,’ may be technically brilliant, but it is a cheat and a fraud.
Charlotte Allen
· 15 min read
Podcast #270: ‘The Politics of the Academy Have Been Defeated’
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Yale English professor-turned-essayist William Deresiewicz, who argues that Americans—many Democrats included—are fed up with campus-style progressive radicalism.
Quillette, William Deresiewicz
· 9 min read
Evolutionary Psychology in the Humanities: Shakespeare’s Othello
Othello and Iago represent two enduring behaviours whose conflicts have shaped much of humanity’s theory of mind and moral emotions to the present day.
Helen Pluckrose
· 17 min read
The Open Society and Its New Enemies
What Karl Popper’s classic can teach us about the threats facing democracies today.
Matt Johnson
· 27 min read