How Do They Know This?
An informative and apolitical new book reminds us that statistics are not always what they seem.
Christopher J. Snowdon
· 6 min read
Fukuyama’s Victory
Liberal democracy has again proved itself capable of overcoming its internal challenges and contradictions.
Matt Johnson
· 22 min read
Brute Physical Facts and Social Construction
The progressive and the traditionalist are equally detached from the underlying reality as currently described by science.
Vinod Goel
· 12 min read
At Last, Mainstream Journalists Are Starting to Report the Truth About Youth Gender Clinics
The New York Times and Guardian are the latest progressive institutions to scrutinize the safety of so-called ‘gender-affirming’ medical interventions.
Bernard Lane
· 9 min read
Podcast #203: A Marriage Lost to Gender Identity
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks to author Shannon Thrace—whose 16-year marriage fell apart after her newly transitioned husband became immersed in the ideologically uncompromising world of online transgender activism.
Quillette
· 1 min read
Quillette Weekly
China protests, race and gender quotas in Canada, and changes at Twitter.
Zoe Booth
· 3 min read
The Enduring Cruelty of Canada’s Residential Schools
In a new, meticulously sourced book, two authors use personal case studies to illuminate the injustices inflicted on Indigenous peoples by Canadian governments and churches.
Andrew Stobo Sniderman, Douglas Sanderson
· 11 min read
Ignoring the Evidence
The University of California has decided to drop college admissions tests—that is a bad idea.
Robert J. Morris
· 6 min read
At Canadian Universities, Race and Gender Quotas Have Become a Way of Life
In their recruitment efforts, some schools now flat-out exclude white males who don’t self-identify as disabled or LGBT.
Margaret Wente
· 11 min read
Islamist Terror; Journalistic Error
In a valuable new book, historian Richard Landes argues that Western reporting on the Second Palestinian Intifada helped to seed a misunderstanding of terrorism.
Jeffrey Herf
· 19 min read
Trouble in the Midlands
How social media influenced media discourse about civil unrest in Leicester and inflamed the violence.
Hardeep Singh
· 8 min read
Misremembering the Korean War
The profound difference in quality of life on opposing sides of the 38th parallel today offers a rebuke to those who portray the US-led intervention in Korea as immoral or futile.
Niranjan Shankar
· 15 min read
Ending Discrimination by Twitter
Gender critical feminists are among those who have been excluded from Twitter for years. The time is right for a correction.
Holly Lawford-Smith
· 9 min read
The Loneliness of the ‘Bridge Man’ Generation
China’s dissenters are isolated. But they are not as isolated as they once were.
Aaron Sarin
· 9 min read