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The Ugly History of Rape Panics

As sexual violence was reaching historic lows, the narrative was demanding the opposite. The definition of sexual violence began to be broadened, and so the numbers grew.

Jerry Barnett

22 Apr 2021 · 11 min read

When Sons Become Daughters, Part IV: Parents of Transitioning Boys Speak Out on Their Own Suffering

The recent spike in trans self-identification has made things even more difficult for these parents, because gender-related body dysmorphia often appears alongside other kinds of physically focused anxieties.

Angus Fox

21 Apr 2021 · 17 min read

Stopped Cold: Remembering Russia's Catastrophic 1939 Campaign Against Finland

Many Finnish soldiers felt pity for their opponents, prodded into battle by merciless commissars.

Sean McMeekin

20 Apr 2021 · 13 min read

Europe, China, and the New Global Hierarchy

Europe has benefited greatly from the fact that the dominant power for the past 75 years has been a liberal democracy—a flawed liberal democracy, no doubt, but a liberal democracy all the same.

Aaron Sarin

19 Apr 2021 · 11 min read

Australian Indigenous Activists Call Out White Feminism's Deadly Blind Spot

The very language we now use to discuss social justice and feminism is being subjected to American critical-race ideology and intersectional feminism.

Edie Wyatt

19 Apr 2021 · 8 min read

Podcast 145: Sean McMeekin on ‘Stalin’s War: A New History of World War II’

Quillette’s Jonathan Kay speaks with Bard University history professor Sean McMeekin about his new book, which describes how the fears and ambitions of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin shaped the course of the Second World War.

Quillette / Sean McMeekin

18 Apr 2021 · 1 min read

Rinaldo Walcott’s On Property—A Review

Indeed, the title misleads: On Property focuses more on the historical threads linking the slave plantations to the abuses of modern policing than it does on its purported subject matter.

Jonathan Salem-Wiseman

18 Apr 2021 · 8 min read

The Permanence of Segregation

Indeed, given existing levels of residential segregation on all continents—urban, suburban, and rural—it is also not practically possible (and almost always politically impossible) to redraw the lines that determine attendance in ways that would produce more integration.