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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 · 14 min read

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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 · 21 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 · 13 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 [https://therealstory.substack.com/]) Terry Glavin about the blockbuster 2021 claim [https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/28/world/canada/kamloops-mass-grave-residential-schools.html] that hundreds of murdered Indigenous children had been found in unmarked graves, the process

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 [https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/egerton-ryerson-statue-caledonia-land-back-lane-1.6059513] the statue of the university’s namesake, Egerton Ryerson, on

Jonathan Bradley

5 Mar 2022 · 11 min read

Bitter Fruit: Marshall McLuhan and the Rise of Fake News

McLuhan’s phenomenal success stemmed from being in the right place at the right time.

Graham Majin

18 Jan 2022 · 16 min read

India’s Increasingly Despotic Crackdown on Journalists

The deadly attacks on journalists, who now work within a tightening entanglement of political bosses and business behemoths, signifies the rise of India’s elected despots.

Debasish Roy Chowdhury and John Keane

16 Nov 2021 · 6 min read

Gulags Are for Artists Like Me

The role that journalists must play to uphold our democratic values is integral to democracy and social cohesion. Journalists hold governments and their agencies to account.

Peter Mousaferiadis

18 Oct 2021 · 5 min read

PODCAST 109: Substack Founder Chris Best on How the Humble Email Newsletter is Saving Journalism

Quillette

6 Sep 2020 ·

Is the New York Times Bad For Democracy?

If the Times is implicated in the declining health of smaller news organizations, then it’s not serving the values of democracy as well as it righteously claims.

Chang Che

20 Mar 2020 · 5 min read

As Newspapers Fade, Journalists Are Finding New Ways to Cover Local News

Less local reporting means less transparency, less informed voters, and lower levels of civic engagement.

Alexandra Hudson

6 Feb 2020 · 7 min read