The Ever-Expanding Definition of Trauma
In diluting the word's meaning mental health professionals are creating a generation of victims.
Alastair Mordey
· 7 min read
The Pseudoscience of Critical Race Theory
Critical Race Theory is not a hard science. It’s not even a soft science.
Julian Adorney
· 10 min read
Podcast # 218: McMaster’s Imaginary Sex Ring: Uncovering Administrators’ Role in Inflaming a Campus Social Panic
Lawrence Krauss, host of The Origins Podcast, interviews Jonathan Kay about his Quillette investigation into the spread of false rape allegations on a Canadian university campus in 2020—and the lessons that can be learned.
Quillette
· 1 min read
Come for the Whales. Stay for the Fur
In the seventh instalment of an ongoing Quillette series on the history of Canada, Greg Koabel describes how 16th-Century Basque whalers created a thriving industry in the waters off Newfoundland
Greg Koabel
· 23 min read
Episode 7: No, Your Child's Feelings Aren't 100% Valid.
Claire & Zoe discuss the rise in school refusal and childhood anxiety, and how helicopter parenting might be making it worse.
Zoe Booth, Claire Lehmann
· 1 min read
Eight Hundred Years of Russian Despotism: An Interview with Orlando Figes
In a new book, the historian traces modern Russian aggression to an apocalyptic mythology rooted deep in the nation’s past.
Jonathan Kay
· 10 min read
Humanity Should Split More Atoms
The cure for poverty and climate change is nuclear.
Lea Booth
· 8 min read
A State of Parental Dysphoria
They say it takes a village to raise a child. What happens when that ‘village’ tries to convince your autistic daughter she was ‘born in the wrong body’?
Anonymous
· 9 min read
It Doesn’t Make It Alright
The SCOTUS decision on affirmative action has ended a hypocritical and incoherent policy.
Andrew Hammel
· 15 min read
Podcast #217: Eight Hundred Years of Russian Despotism
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to acclaimed historian Orlando Figes, whose new book traces Russia’s political dysfunction back to the age of Byzantium and the Mongol invasion. This podcast is also available on YouTube.
Quillette
· 1 min read
Lost in Transition
The popularity of Harry Potter reveals a yearning for rites of passage that no longer exist.
John Carroll
· 10 min read
Celebrating the Legacy of Canada’s First Prime Minister
Far from being an ‘architect of genocide,’ John A. Macdonald championed policies that were humane by 19th-century standards
Greg Piasetzki
· 11 min read
Animal Liberation Later
Most consumers of meat know that animals matter, but they choose to act as if this isn’t the case.
Matt Johnson
· 13 min read
The Instagram Panopticon
Exhibitionism, voyeurism, and the cycle of judgement.
Ed Smith
· 16 min read