Death on Demand: Cautionary Tales from Canada Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying program, once reserved for the terminally ill, is increasingly attracting applicants experiencing poverty and depression. Margaret Wente 1 Feb 2023 · 15 min read
Ken Kesey and the Rush to Deinstitutionalization Whatever the literary strengths of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, the book has done much to harm both the mentally ill and their communities. Stephen Eide 14 Nov 2022 · 11 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
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
Podcast #168: Jonathan Haidt on Instagram’s Mental Health Emergency Jonathan Kay speaks with Jonathan Haidt about the emotionally destructive effect of social media on many young users. Quillette 4 Oct 2021 · 1 min read
Buying Fentanyl on the Streets of San Francisco—An Interview with Heather Mac Donald Cities are one of the great accomplishments of human civilization. Michael Shellenberger 8 Oct 2019 · 7 min read
Trigger Warnings and Mass Psychogenic Illness While a trigger warning in theory guards against trauma, it has the actual effect of multiplying claims of trauma by students who are primed to expect it and have a ready-made lexicon to describe both its effects and the outrages that bring it on. Stewart Justman 2 Nov 2018 · 10 min read
The Paradox of Female Happiness The decline in female subjective wellbeing was found to cut across both class and race and held true for women of all ages, with children and without. Claire Lehmann 2 Nov 2015 · 4 min read
