Unconscious Bias in Medicine: A Canard
Evidence that clinical decisions are driven by unconscious bias remains conspicuously lacking.
Stewart Justman
· 8 min read
Our Lost Classical Learning
The Western canon was not an unchanging set of texts, but an ongoing conversation that lasted thousands of years—enabling each generation to build on the intellectual heritage of the past.
Brian Kaller
· 7 min read
But is it a Bernini? A Tale of Contested Identity in the Art World
How the bronze crucifix in the Art Gallery of Ontario got from seventeenth-century Rome to twenty-first century Toronto is an intriguing tale, but it is a narrative filled with gaps.
Jonathan Salem-Wiseman
· 11 min read
Remembering ‘Exodus’
A perennially controversial bestseller turns 65.
Kevin Mims
· 18 min read
Misreading Middle-Earth: Tolkien and the Contemporary Reader
Fantasy is more popular than ever, and this is the direct consequence of Tolkien’s success. But the genre has survived by adapting, and in an age of secularism, that process has involved evaporating the religious themes Tolkien cared about so deeply.
Josh Allan
· 10 min read
Podcast #221: Understanding Gender Radicalism and White Racial Guilt as Ersatz Religious Movements
Indian-Canadian podcast host Kushal Mehra interviews Quillette’s Jonathan Kay about the radicalized beliefs and unsettling rituals that now characterize performative progressive politics in Canada and the rest of the Western world.
Quillette
· 1 min read
Killed for a Rainbow Flag: Are Critics of Trans Ideology Responsible?
The inflammatory rhetoric that attempts to link hideous crimes like the recent shooting with legitimate concerns is misleading and misguided.
T.M. Murray
· 6 min read
Rise of the Goths
In the inaugural instalment of ‘The So-Called Dark Ages,’ podcaster Herbert Bushman introduces readers to the Gothic civilization that would eventually help bring down the Roman Empire.
Herbert Bushman
· 18 min read
Tolerating Intolerance: The Free Speech Paradox
The true power of free expression is revealed even in defenses of speech advocating against it.
Angel Eduardo
· 6 min read
When Havel Met Biden
Far from being a project of US imperialism, NATO expansion has been a process driven by small and vulnerable countries.
Oscar Clarke
· 7 min read
Should We Stay or Should We Go?
Humanity and the Final Frontier.
Joseph Grosso
· 20 min read
Medications Can Help Keep Alcoholics Sober. Why Are They Being Ignored?
Affordable, safe, generic anticonvulsants restore homeostasis to the brains of chronic drinkers, but they are not being promoted.
Frank Celia
· 6 min read
On Marriage and Happiness
It is easy for a successful writer to advise that career success isn’t that important. Would a failed writer agree?
Kevin Mims
· 9 min read
‘New France’ Stumbles Out of the Gate
In the tenth instalment of an ongoing Quillette series on the history of Canada, historian Greg Koabel describes the early—and tragically unsuccessful—French efforts to create a permanent colony
Greg Koabel
· 20 min read