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Quillette Cetera
A collection of 69 posts
In Canada, ‘Decolonization’ Has Become a Profitable Enterprise
British Columbia’s nursing regulator paid consultants almost $100,000 to design a special complaints process for Indigenous patients.
Amy Eileen Hamm
· 6 min read
In Canada, Asking for Evidence Now Counts as ‘Denialism’
Sensational 2021 claims that unmarked Indigenous child graves had been discovered in British Columbia now seem doubtful. But saying so may soon be a criminal offence
Jonathan Kay
· 10 min read
Lessons from an Academic Social Panic
Following on an investigative report detailing McMaster University’s mishandling of false sex-ring accusations in 2020, here are four lessons to help prevent a recurrence
Jonathan Kay
· 11 min read
The Auckland Mobbing of Kellie-Jay Keen Was Fuelled by Media-Peddled Misinformation
Why are journalists at Stuff, The Spinoff, and other New Zealand outlets promoting propaganda on behalf of trans-rights activists?
Laura López
· 12 min read
Father Absence Has Already Peaked
A Reply to David C. Geary's 'The Rise of Father Absence and Its Attendant Social Ills.'
Nicholas Wolfinger
· 5 min read
I’m Loving Substack’s New ‘Notes’ Service. But Can the Good Times Last?
Much as Substack originally supplied writers with a turnkey newsletter operation, Notes provides us with a turnkey form of community-building.
Jonathan Kay
· 8 min read
A Public Servant Stood Up for Sex-Based Rights at a Gender Workshop—And Paid the Price
In a recorded DEI session on ‘Trans Inclusion,’ activist Adrienne Smith told the dissenting staff member, ‘I’m past the point of seeking a respectful debate.’
Jonathan Kay
· 13 min read
Defining ‘Woke’ (a Word We Should Probably All Stop Using)
It’s fine to concede the (originally) progressive nature of wokeism, so long as we also call out the movement’s betrayal of core liberal values
Jonathan Kay
· 7 min read
Fantastical Beliefs in a Post-Christian Age
Without a faith, people must find new sources of meaning, new congregations to which they can belong.
Patrick Parkinson
· 12 min read
The ‘Shitty Media Men’ Legal Saga Comes to a Close
Years after being falsely accused of rape, Stephen Elliott will receive a six-figure defamation settlement from Moira Donegan.
Jonathan Kay
· 7 min read
Nick Cave’s Lessons in Grief
The singer’s new book awakened me to a paradoxical fact: tragedy can sometimes remind us of what makes life worth living.
Neil Gray
· 7 min read
Comparing Wokeness to Christianity Is an Insult to the Church
To the extent social-justice extremism resembles a puritanical faith, it’s one that provides believers with no grace and no hope of redemption.
Matthew Rowley
· 8 min read
The Ethos of Female Prisons
A philosopher breaks down the debate over how to treat male criminals who self-identity as women.
Holly Lawford-Smith
· 12 min read
Teaching UBC Medical Scholars that Biological Sex is a ‘Colonial Imposition’
How to identify a male research subject? At the University of British Columbia, it’s anyone who “resonates with masculinity.”
Amy Eileen Hamm
· 5 min read