Cornell and Consent
An open letter to young men and women from an exasperated mother.
Marilyn Simon
· 16 min read
Reader Favourites
A collection of 127 posts
Anatomy of a Book Promotion
How a LinkedIn spat over the “glass cliff” cost McKinsey partner Chris Bradley his leadership role, and became the centrepiece of a book launch.
Claire Lehmann
· 8 min read
A Dishonest (and Dangerous) Nobel Laureate
Navi Pillay’s appalling treatment of Hamas’s sexual violence provides ample reason to deny her any prestigious honours. But she is also dangerous to the very international legal system that she pretends to uphold.
Norman J.W. Goda
· 12 min read
Payback Time for Steven Galloway
As the former UBC professor exacts apologies and legal settlements from his accusers, Brad Cran offers a personal account of the collateral damage that the decade-long saga inflicted on the Canadian literary community.
Brad Cran
· 21 min read
Canada’s Unmarked-Graves Social Panic (2021–26): A Primer for Foreign Scholars
In a recent speech to American academics, a Quillette editor explained how Canadians convinced themselves that 215 child corpses had been discovered in an old apple orchard.
Jonathan Kay
· 32 min read
Lesbian Fragility, Then and Now
The tragicomic obsession with disability and disease on display at the Last Ditch bar isn’t a new phenomenon. It’s been part of militant lesbian culture since the Cold War.
Julie Bindel
· 11 min read
An Open Letter to Scott Alexander
The dangers of AI are real, but doomerism may be counterproductive.
Steven Pinker
· 8 min read
Genocide and Its Jurors
In 1967, left-wing intellectuals accused America of genocide in Vietnam—they were wrong then, and they’re wrong again now.
Maia Zelkha
· 8 min read
I, Victim
Pascal Bruckner’s book about victimhood culture invites us to choose liberation, and to move from resentment to a secular kind of grace.
Marilyn Simon
· 9 min read
Citizen Sane
The mainstreaming of therapy culture may be driving us all out of our minds.
Steve Salerno
· 18 min read
This Is the Way the World Ends
Sex is declining because the options seem endless. This is counter-intuitive, but biologically it makes sense.
Robert King
· 17 min read
Last Man Standing
Francis Fukuyama’s new memoir assesses an intellectual life devoted to the health of the liberal-democratic idea.
Matt Johnson
· 12 min read
The Autism Epidemic That Wasn’t
The Trump administration’s scientific illiteracy about rates of autism is going to have catastrophic results.
Geoffrey C. Kabat
· 6 min read
Institutional Failures in the Garden of Great Intellects
The Cofnas and Arday controversies show that on matters of race, administrators at Cambridge have failed to conduct deliberate checks, failed in probity, and failed in their tolerance for unsettled science.
Rosalind Arden
· 11 min read
J.K. Rowling vs. Amnesty
Is this the reckoning that human-rights NGOs have long avoided?
Danielle Haas
· 10 min read