COVID-19's Death Toll: A Historical Perspective The UKâs Office for National Statistics (ONS) has reported the age-standardised mortality rate in England each year going back to 2001. Noah Carl 24 Jan 2021 · 6 min read
Politics vs. Mental Health: How the Culture War Blocked My Healing Process No matter what a personâs skin color or ideology, encouraging them to feel ashamed about who they are is never conducive to good mental health. Ian Dempsey 21 Jan 2021 · 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 16 Jan 2021 · 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 15 Jan 2021 · 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 1 Jan 2021 · 6 min read
On Sex and Gender, The New England Journal of Medicine Has Abandoned Its Scientific Mission The very idea of âa dichotomous sex-classification systemâ is dubious, the authors believe. Colin Wright 23 Dec 2020 · 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. Bellâs case represents an important turning point. Quillette 18 Dec 2020 · 9 min read
My White Privilege Didnât 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 7 Dec 2020 · 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 27 Nov 2020 · 16 min read
On the Cusp of a Vaccineâand a Historic Scientific Triumph What is unique about our time is not âthe awful spectacle of men dying like sheep,â as Thucydides put it, but the success of scientists in bringing many such spectacles to an end. Quillette 18 Nov 2020 · 11 min read
Totally Under ControlâA Review Totally Under Control is squarely focused on the bungling, mismanagement, and incoherence of the Trump administration. Razib Khan 17 Nov 2020 · 14 min read
Gender Activists Are Trying to Cancel My Book. Why is Silicon Valley Helping Them? This is what censorship looks like in 21st-century America. Abigail Shrier 7 Nov 2020 · 9 min read
R.M. Vaughan (1965â2020): A Beautiful Mind Silently Extinguished in a Time of Fear We were Oscar Wildeâs great-grand-nephews, dandy aesthetes obsessed as much with the curl of our hair as with art or politics. Sky Gilbert 6 Nov 2020 · 8 min read
Jack Turbanâs Dangerous Campaign to Smear Ethical Psychotherapy as Anti-Trans âConversion Therapyâ A number of additional data irregularities in the USTS raise further questions about the quality of the data. Roberto DâAngelo, Ema Syrulnik, Sasha Ayad, Lisa Marchiano, Dianna Theadora Kenny, and Patrick Clarke / Lisa Marchiano / Sasha Ayad 1 Nov 2020 · 19 min read
The Coming Post-COVID Global Order The pandemic crisis is rapidly becoming a civilizational crisis. Joel Kotkin and HĂŒgo KrĂŒger 19 Oct 2020 · 11 min read