Man vs. Wall: Solitary Sport and Surviving the Pandemic
In our hyper-connected times, personal resilience is a muscle worth exercising.
Matt Fuchs
· 6 min read
Health
A collection of 168 posts
Suicide Prevention and the Social Science Cargo Cult
Social science can be a valuable means of understanding the world and improving human well-being when it is rigorously and practically applied.
Tomasz Witkowski
· 9 min read
First, Do No Harm: A New Model for Treating Trans-Identified Children
Individuals with a fragile ego structure also tend to be prone toward black-and-white thinking, which leads them to concrete rather than symbolic solutions.
Susan Evans and Marcus Evans
· 16 min read
In Defense of Shame
In reducing sex to a basic mechanical function in the service of health, we have covered the uniquely human parts of ourselves that should be engaged during sex and lost precisely what makes sex sexy—what transforms its mechanics into mystery.
Marilyn Simon
· 10 min read
The Tragic Vision: Making the Best of Things
The denial of tragedy inevitably results in the denial of what makes us human, snipping the invisible thread that connects us to the lives of other people and draining the individual of moral gravity.
Samuel Kronen
· 13 min read
COVID-19's Death Toll: A Historical Perspective
The UK’s Office for National Statistics (ONS) has reported the age-standardised mortality rate in England each year going back to 2001.
Noah Carl
· 6 min read
Politics vs. Mental Health: How the Culture War Blocked My Healing Process
No matter what a person’s skin color or ideology, encouraging them to feel ashamed about who they are is never conducive to good mental health.
Ian Dempsey
· 7 min read
Rise of the Coronavirus Cranks
The smileys are not bad people. They are not necessarily unintelligent people. They are unhappy people wearing a mask of happiness, confused and beaten and searching for an easy answer.
Christopher J. Snowdon
· 19 min read
Britain Needs a New Approach to Homelessness
The money offered by benevolent citizens and the abundance of cheap drugs act as a magnet for the area.
Noel Yaxley
· 11 min read
The Sexual Politics of Vasectomies
Vasectomies were illegal in France up until 2001. A Napoleonic code which forbade self mutilation was applied to vasectomies used for contraception.
Tanveer Ahmed
· 6 min read
On Sex and Gender, The New England Journal of Medicine Has Abandoned Its Scientific Mission
The very idea of “a dichotomous sex-classification system” is dubious, the authors believe.
Colin Wright
· 14 min read
Like It Or Not, Keira Bell Has Opened Up a Real Conversation About Gender Dysphoria
In the debate about transitioning children who experience gender dysphoria, Ms. Bell’s case represents an important turning point.
Quillette
· 9 min read
My White Privilege Didn’t Save Me. But God Did
Because of my experiences, and the newly fashionable denial of reality being promoted by progressives, I find myself sitting with the politically homeless.
Edie Wyatt
· 12 min read
Desperation and the Quest for Control: The Dangers of Alternative Medicine
Contrary to popular opinion, alternative medicine is not always harmless, and when patients use it instead of conventional medical treatment, it can even be deadly.
S. Stiles
· 16 min read
On the Cusp of a Vaccine—and a Historic Scientific Triumph
What is unique about our time is not “the awful spectacle of men dying like sheep,” as Thucydides put it, but the success of scientists in bringing many such spectacles to an end.
Quillette
· 11 min read