Shelby Steele’s masterful second book invites black America to reject redemptive liberalism and the helplessness it demands for a humanistic politics of advancement.
A recognition that genetic influences on social outcomes are important will potentially influence the kind of help that society offers poorer individuals. But it does not in any way compel an absence of help, or a casual indifference.
Even as other nations finally move to protect dysphoric youth from disfiguring treatments, Canadian politicians and educators continue to promote state-funded ‘gender journeys.’
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The laboratory accident hypothesis of COVID-19’s origins is a bust, but the popular consensus is unwilling to accept it.
Should mental-health care strive to be ethically neutral?
We should not make race the organising principle of a new chapter of our Constitution.
For two four-year-old Ontario boys growing up in the 1950s, a backyard creek became the site of unforgettable adventures.
Are racial preferences in university admissions really dead?
For a quarter century, activists such as Vandana Shiva have opposed GM crops that can help feed the world. Now, more than ever, it’s time to reject their Luddite demands
In the ninth instalment of an ongoing Quillette series on the history of Canada, Greg Koabel describes how the late 16th-century fur trade developed amid a disrupted Indigenous geopolitical landscape
In an attempt to be provocative, the film rehashes old feminst tropes reminiscent of the 1970s.
Legal equality and the politics of disappointment.
The musical legacy of Robbie Robertson is a monument to the possibilities of American song.