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Stop Feeding Your Brain Junk Food

A simple way to discourage clickbait influencers from producing low-quality content is for the rest of us to stop consuming it.

Gurwinder Bhogal

26 Jul 2022 · 9 min read

We Need to Do Hard Things

We’ve lost the ability to navigate our inner worlds, to sit with or navigate anything uncomfortable. We avoid, push away, or lash out because we don’t know how to handle discomfort.

Steve Magness

30 Jun 2022 · 12 min read

When Mental Health Education Makes Us Sick

There must be more in our mental health toolkit than the language and mechanisms for self-diagnosis.

Clare Rowe

7 Jun 2022 · 8 min read

Gender Ideologues Have Co-opted the Campaign Against Conversion Therapy

I spent years campaigning for a law that would protect gay youth from the ‘corrective’ abuse that I’d once endured. Then the trans-rights lobby got involved.

Peter Gajdics

4 Jun 2022 · 11 min read

Art Is Not Therapy

Something is flattened when our understanding of art is asked to serve the logic of a medical diagnosis, which sees the messiness of the human condition as a malady to be cured.

Jasmine Hu-Hollingshead

12 May 2022 · 11 min read

Gender-Transition Decisions Should Be Made by Families, Not the State

This month, the New York Times ran a two-part podcast series titled When Texas Went After Transgender Care, detailing that state’s effort to ban “elective procedures for gender transitioning, including reassignment surgeries that can cause sterilization, mastectomies, removals of otherwise healthy body parts, and administration of puberty-blocking drugs or

Lisa Selin Davis

25 Apr 2022 · 9 min read

A Trans Pioneer Explains Her Resignation from the US Professional Association for Transgender Health

In the past, we were told that people who were transgender had a deep-seated psychiatric disorder, which no longer is the prevailing view, but for many years it was, which was why so many trans people feel traumatized, especially adult trans people, who were basically told they were crazy.

Lisa Selin Davis

6 Jan 2022 · 12 min read

The Liar’s Club: Looking Back on Princeton

In 2017, I got the welcome news that I’d been admitted to Princeton University. At the time, I was ecstatic. And I remain humbly grateful for the education I received there. But now that I’ve graduated, I’m not sure the prize was worth the price I paid

Scott Newman

9 Dec 2021 · 9 min read

Madness for Decivilization

Mental hospitals emerged at a time, Foucault argued, when the state was seeking to impose rational order on societies.

Michael Shellenberger

31 Oct 2021 · 14 min read

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and the Meaning of Human Suffering

Every situation is distinguished by its uniqueness, and there is always only one right answer to the problem posed by the situation at hand.

Samuel Kronen

28 Oct 2021 · 27 min read

Facebook: The New Big Tobacco or A Media Moral Panic?

Social media changes the way people relate to each other whether they use it or not, and whether they use it sparingly or heavily.

Quillette

26 Oct 2021 · 20 min read

Instagram's Mental Health Emergency

The main ethical problem posed by Instagram is that young people are not mature enough to give informed consent to having their preferences harvested and fed back to them by a corporation that specialises in attention manipulation.