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How the Media Broke the Immigration Debate

What good is a free press if it lacks the courage to ask difficult questions about our most important problems?

21 Jan 2025 · 11 min read

Laura Helmuth is a middle aged white woman in a suit with long grey-blonde hair.

An Unscientific American

Editor-in-chief Laura Helmuth’s departure from ‘Scientific American’ last week is an object lesson in the dangers of mixing facts and ideology.

Michael Shermer

21 Nov 2024 · 12 min read

S: a man in his 40s, with brown hair and round glasses, in his studio.

Death of a Repentant Iconoclast

Steve Albini and the new problem with music.

Ari Gandsman

4 Oct 2024 · 25 min read

Imagen fija de un reportaje televisivo que muestra Bruno López entrevistando a guerrilleros maoístas Mexicanos.

Un viaje por el camino de los recuerdos con un periodista mexicano-americano que pasó de escribir pies de foto para imágenes de pin-ups en un tabloide, en su adolescencia, a dirigir las operaciones digitales de Univisión.

Jonathan Kay

9 Jul 2024 · 8 min read

My Cousin, el Periodista

A trip down memory lane with a Mexican-American journalist who went from captioning pin-ups at his father’s tabloid as a teenager to leading Univision’s online operations.

Jonathan Kay

7 Jul 2024 · 8 min read

Journalists Shouldn’t Depend on the State for Their Wages

More than a third of many Canadian journalists’ salaries are now effectively being paid by Justin Trudeau’s government—an arrangement that’s created an obvious conflict of interest.

Jonathan Kay

14 Jun 2024 · 9 min read

Investigating the Academy

In a recent speech to University of Toronto scholars, a Quillette editor explained why many of his fellow journalists are reluctant to report on administrative scandals at Canadian universities.

Jonathan Kay

19 Apr 2024 · 15 min read

Ignore This Article

Among the countless articles and words devoted to the expression of opinion in the last 150 years, the vast majority are forgotten endorsements of a status quo, or futile critiques from the sidelines that were soon overtaken by events.

George Case

31 Mar 2024 · 8 min read

A Life in the Fray

A new memoir by Martin Peretz, the former owner and editor-in-chief of The New Republic, provides a timely reminder of what American journalism has lost.

Jeffrey Herf

10 Jul 2023 · 22 min read

Media Contagion

Latter-day journalism is helping to realize its own false narratives.

Steve Salerno

24 Apr 2023 · 14 min read

Low Life and High Style

Cruel, indiscreet, misanthropic and miserable, columnist Jeffrey Bernard nevertheless produced some bracing and scabrously funny journalism.

Robin Ashenden

9 Feb 2023 · 14 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

6 Dec 2022 · 9 min read

The Bobos at 22

In 2000, David Brooks foretold an American utopia that never arrived.

Kevin Mims

10 Nov 2022 · 16 min read

Podcast # 194: Canada’s Unmarked-Graves Social Panic: How Did the Media Get This Blockbuster Story So Wrong?

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to National Post reporter (and popular Substack author) Terry Glavin about the blockbuster 2021 claim that hundreds of murdered Indigenous children had been found in unmarked graves, the process by which that story began to unravel in the year that followed, and what the

Quillette

3 Aug 2022 · 1 min read

I Signed Up to Study Journalism. What They Taught Me Was Activism

Even by the hyper-progressive standards of the Canadian education sector, Ryerson University in Toronto has distinguished itself as being unusually energetic in its social justice messaging. Last spring, Indigenous activists destroyed the statue of the university’s namesake, Egerton Ryerson, on the basis that he helped design Canada’s system

Jonathan Bradley

5 Mar 2022 · 11 min read

How the Media Broke the Immigration Debate

An Unscientific American

Death of a Repentant Iconoclast

Mi primo, el periodista

My Cousin, el Periodista

Journalists Shouldn’t Depend on the State for Their Wages

Investigating the Academy

Ignore This Article

A Life in the Fray

Media Contagion

Low Life and High Style

At Last, Mainstream Journalists Are Starting to Report the Truth About Youth Gender Clinics

The Bobos at 22

Podcast # 194: Canada’s Unmarked-Graves Social Panic: How Did the Media Get This Blockbuster Story So Wrong?

I Signed Up to Study Journalism. What They Taught Me Was Activism