A collection of 46 posts
Understanding what has gone wrong with journalism in the US requires an understanding of what has gone wrong with the country’s journalism schools.
Jason Zengerle’s new book about the degradation of a once-gifted writer and broadcaster also illustrates the downward trajectory of the entire news industry during the same period.
Almost five years after falsely claiming it had found graves of 215 Indigenous children, the Kamloops First Nation has announced the supposed crime scene may never be excavated—but could instead be preserved as a ‘Sacred Site.’
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to Graham Majin about the recent scandal at the BBC, and the need for reporters to prevent the ‘poison of narrative’ from corrupting their craft
Love means never having to say you’re sorry.
We must act quickly to reverse illiberal trends among young men and women alike.
A new article in MIT’s ‘Undark’ magazine recycles old misinformation about a supposedly toxic chemical.
He’s hardly the only writer who pretended to believe men can become women. If we shame him for confessing his intellectual dishonesty, we discourage others from doing likewise.
The Gaza aid-site controversy and a crisis of journalism.
Essays about contemporary dating are mistaking cruelty for liberation.
A tribute to a brilliant writer and a journalist of great integrity and candour.
How journalism exchanged the duty to inform for an ethic of customer satisfaction.
Twenty years after his death, what Hunter S. Thompson’s legacy—or lack of it—tells us about literature and manhood in our current moment.
A new collection of Murray Kempton’s articles reveals a thoughtful journalist whose politics were difficult to categorise.
What good is a free press if it lacks the courage to ask difficult questions about our most important problems?