Sweden - Quillette

Justice in Stockholm

Thirty-four years after the massacre of political prisoners in Iran, the conviction of Hamid Noury in Sweden has been a victory for accountability and for the truth.

Roya Hakakian

7 Feb 2023 · 19 min read

A Life Worthwhile

The dignity that comes with a job is more important than the salary.

Magnus Henrekson

17 Jun 2022 · 11 min read

Sweden Has Resisted a Lockdown. But That Doesn't Make it a Bastion of Liberty

Its choice of a uniquely lax approach to the pandemic should not be mistaken for a sudden turn toward individual freedom.

Paulina Neuding

12 May 2020 · 6 min read

Abandoning Malmö to Its Criminals

The explosion happened three blocks away, but the sound had become so familiar that I went back to sleep without even getting out of bed to check on my twins.

Henrik Jönsson

15 Nov 2019 · 6 min read

Self-Harm Versus the Greater Good: Greta Thunberg and Child Activism

A workplace strike shows company owners and management that workers are able to harm them economically. A school strike, on the other hand, constitutes a form of self-harm, undertaken to attract adult attention.

Paulina Neuding

23 Apr 2019 · 7 min read

Denmark's Blaspheming Mother

Immigration, Islamism and integration are salient issues even in the happiest place on earth.

Andy Ngo

22 Apr 2019 · 9 min read

Europe's New Beggars

An elite discourse condones destructive behavior and reinterprets a denigrating hand-to-mouth existence as an alternative lifestyle

Johan Wennström

10 Apr 2019 · 9 min read

The Attractions of the Clan—An Interview with Mark Weiner

My concern is that the left here is closing itself off, and that its resistance to thinking about cultural differences is a progressive parallel to right-wing climate change denial and that it could eventually eat it intellectually from inside.

Paulina Neuding and Mark S. Weiner

20 Mar 2019 · 13 min read

How Sweden's Blind Altruism Is Harming Migrants

In terms of culture, Afghanistan is the opposite of Sweden.

Mustafa Panshiri

4 Mar 2019 · 11 min read

'Post-Truth' and the Decline of Swedish Education

Sweden has gone the farthest toward abandoning a knowledge-based core curriculum and a pedagogy in which students internalize and learn to apply knowledge under the teacher’s instruction and supervision.

Magnus Henrekson and Johan Wennström

18 Sep 2018 · 8 min read

Sweden's General Election Turmoil

Sweden used to be at the top of many international rankings of equality and affluence, but has slipped in recent years.

Paulina Neuding

7 Sep 2018 · 5 min read

Sweden's Sexual Assault Crisis Presents a Feminist Paradox

Such levels of gang violence are without parallel in Sweden’s modern history. And with police busy dealing with gang murders and shootings, rape victims wait for justice.

Paulina Neuding

10 Oct 2017 · 8 min read