After Apocalypse
Nothing short of being at the precipice, on the sharp edge between the world as it was and the world as it will be, ever seems able to describe the present in terms that adequately capture it.
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How Wikipedia Rewrote Zionism
Since October 2023, four-fifths of the encyclopedia’s article on Zionism has been replaced, and the historians it cites—Benny Morris among them—are misrepresented.
How to Suppress Men’s Writing
More than 70 percent of Big Five publishing staff are women, most of them from elite universities.
Cornell and Consent
An open letter to young men and women from an exasperated mother.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
An Open Letter to Scott Alexander
The dangers of AI are real, but doomerism may be counterproductive.
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.
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.