Letters to the Editor
Letters to the Editor: Friday 6 February – Friday 13 February
Quillette
· 8 min read
Why We Still Love the Bomb
Stanley Kubrick’s comic masterpiece ‘Dr Strangelove’ remains a potent allegory for our times.
William Barker
· 9 min read
Podcast #324: Guests of the Nation
Managing Editor Iona Italia talks to writer Lionel Shriver about her new novel, A Better Life, which tackles the theme of immigration.
Quillette
· 27 min read
Capitalism’s Paradox
Why prosperity breeds guilt, how status incentives reward critique, and what happens when function is replaced by moral performance.
Sarah Wooten
· 5 min read
Shakespeare in Love and Grief
It appears that people now find comfort in the idea that the life of even the greatest of writers is no more satisfying than their own.
Mallory Young
· 10 min read
Strange Delight
Radley Metzger’s 1975 hardcore adaptation of a celebrated literary hoax is a vast improvement on the cynical source material.
Marilyn Simon
· 15 min read
American Liberalism and Illiberalism
Americans who may have ferocious disagreements about the size of government, foreign policy, and a wide range of other issues must find a way to unite around their shared commitment to the liberal idea.
Matt Johnson
· 15 min read
Podcast #323: British Columbia’s Radical Political Landscape
Politician Dallas Brodie explains why her province continues to promote dubious social-justice policies and myths—including the false claim that 215 dead Indigenous children were discovered four years ago in ‘unmarked graves.’
Quillette
· 7 min read
Self-Defeating “Sustainability”
The sustainable agriculture movement’s ideological opposition to biotechnology undermines genuine environmental progress and food security.
Henry I. Miller
· 6 min read
How Not to Develop a Country
The idea that we should redistribute wealth by fiat from prosperous to low-income and stagnating countries remains popular even though it is profoundly misguided.
Deepak Srinivasan, Rohit Shinde
· 14 min read
Letters to the Editor
Letters to the Editor: Friday 30 January — February 6, 2026
Quillette
· 7 min read
The Canadian Paediatric Society Is Trapped in a Pre-Cass Time Warp
While other jurisdictions adopt balanced, evidence-based protocols for treating gender dysphoria, the CPS has doubled down on an obsolete policy instructing doctors to reflexively ‘affirm’ trans-identified youth.
Chan Kulatunga Moruzi, Peter Sim, Ian Mitchell, Darrell Palmer, Ari R. Joffe
· 30 min read
The Thornhill and Palmer Affair: When Evolutionary Biology Challenged Rape Orthodoxy
For their research showing that rape is generally motivated by sexual desire, Randy Thornhill and Craig Palmer were subjected to death threats and hounded in their personal and professional lives. And yet, they were right.
Zoe Booth, Peggy Sastre
· 8 min read
No Bodies, No Accountability
A new book catalogues the damage to Canadian society caused by a 2021 social panic over non-existent ‘unmarked graves.’
Chris Champion, Tom Flanagan
· 11 min read
Murder Most Foul
William J. Mann’s new book about the notorious Black Dahlia case is a valuable corrective to the cottage industry of speculative theories that proliferated after her murder in 1947.
Ron Capshaw
· 10 min read