Trans Identity and the Right to Exist
This is substance metaphysics for the twenty-first century.
Holly Lawford-Smith
· 10 min read
Man Out of Time
A look back at the career of Avery Corman, who found popular success with ‘Kramer versus Kramer’ before running afoul of feminism.
Kevin Mims
· 19 min read
Towards a Brave New World
Huxley’s dystopian novel was a warning, but we are systematically moving in the direction he indicated.
Tomasz Witkowski
· 10 min read
The Insidious Lie That We Can’t Understand Each Other
And a guide for how to productively push back against the identity trap.
Yascha Mounk
· 16 min read
Howard Men
Prince Jones, Carlton Jones, and the evasions of Ta-Nehisi Coates.
Adam Gussow
· 58 min read
Sculpture and Story
Narrative art has been deeply unfashionable for about a century. But aren’t art and stories inextricable?
Aidan Harte
· 20 min read
Podcast #224: Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans-Identified Children
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to psychotherapist and book author Stella O’Malley, and parent “Josie A.,” about the need to heed parents’ voices before “affirming” a child’s desire for gender-transition therapies.
Quillette
· 1 min read
King of the Goths
In the third instalment of ‘The So-Called Dark Ages,’ podcaster Herbert Bushman describes the rise of Alaric I, whose Gothic armies roamed Greece and the Balkans before marching on Rome itself.
Herbert Bushman
· 20 min read
A Country in the Making
Sean Penn’s surprising new documentary explores “extreme history” in war-torn Ukraine.
Brian Stewart
· 6 min read
Clearing Out My Father’s Office
Reflections on a vibrant scientific career cut short.
Geoffrey C. Kabat
· 15 min read
How Australia’s Press Council Has Been Used to Stifle the Gender Debate
In their reporting on the medicalisation of dysphoric children, Australian journalists are now expected to comply with media guidelines drafted at the behest of trans activists.
Bernard Lane
· 17 min read
The Communication Revolution
Like the first iPhone, Gutenberg’s Bible opened up avenues of development that entrepreneurs have been exploiting ever since.
James Hannam
· 10 min read
Champlain Gives It Another Go
In the twelfth instalment of an ongoing Quillette series on the history of Canada, Greg Koabel describes France’s halting efforts to create a permanent Canadian settlement in the early 1600s.
Greg Koabel
· 30 min read