Masochistic Nationalism—A Review
Post-colonial guilt in Britain and other formerly imperial Western powers can produce similar displays of self-flagellation and denial.
Rumy Hasan
· 7 min read
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The Social Determinants of Health: Critique and Implications
This overreach of public health also bleeds into the educational sector, where schooling is yet another SDOH requiring intervention.
Zachary Robert Caverley
· 12 min read
The Sex Negative Society
The education system is sex negative, especially when it engages in “sex education.”
Jacob Falkovich
· 6 min read
When Sons Become Daughters, Part V: The Links Between Trans Identity, Gifted Minds, Categorical Thinking—And Anime
Anime offers vividly coloured worlds, in which giant-eyed kids and anthropomorphized animals conduct heroic journeys against beautifully detailed backdrops.
Angus Fox
· 17 min read
Book Burning at Midnight, May 10th, 1933
Following the Nazis’ defeat by the Allies, the imagery lived on. In succeeding decades, projections of the book burning were never long out of sight or reference.
Thomas Doherty
· 7 min read
Podcast #148: Bernard Lane on the Fight for a More Balanced Approach Toward Children Seeking Medicalized Gender Change
Quillette Editor-in-Chief Claire Lehmann talks to The Australian writer Bernard Lane about the severe risks associated with rushing gender dysphoric children into puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgery—and the rising tide of concerned parents who are pushing back against the campaign to reflexively “affirm” children’s beliefs about their
Quillette, Bernard Lane
· 1 min read
The Geography of COVID-19
The ongoing pandemic is reshaping the geography of our planet, helping some areas and hurting others. In the West, the clear winners have been the sprawling suburbs and exurbs, while dense cores have been dealt a powerful blow. The pandemic also has accelerated class differences and inequality, with poor and
Joel Kotkin, Wendell Cox
· 11 min read
What's Wrong With the New Australian Curriculum?
In education, we have lots of wars. There are the math wars, the reading wars, and the ongoing culture wars. What is less common is for all of these wars to ignite at once along with the declaration of a new war or two, just for the heck of it.
Greg Ashman
· 7 min read
Keep Social-Justice Indoctrination Out of the Therapist’s Office
One of the earliest stains on the legacy of psychiatry, my medical specialty, dates to the American 1840 census, when the US government first began systematically collecting information on “idiocy” and “insanity.” According to the results, the purported rates of mental illness among free blacks in northern cities were deemed
Sally Satel
· 11 min read
Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe—A Review
A review of Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe by Niall Ferguson. Allen Lane, 496 pages (May 2021) Viewed from a certain angle, history appears to be the legacy of our errors—the record of humanity risking too much and anticipating too little, getting things wrong and getting them wrong all
Jared Marcel Pollen
· 10 min read
Identity and the Self in 'Hamlet'
Explore identity and the self in Shakespeare’s Hamlet, showing how the prince’s inner conflict mirrors modern questions of authenticity and role.
Marilyn Simon
· 13 min read
Gaslighting the Concerned Parents of Trans Children—A Psychotherapist’s View
I first met Jo and Carol in Manchester two years ago, when I spoke as a clinician on a panel at what is believed to be the first conference dedicated to the issue of detransitioners (people who once presented themselves as transgender, but then decided to live in accordance with
Stella O’Malley
· 15 min read
When Journalism Blurs Into Activism—A Canadian Case Study
This all began with an imaginary teachers’ manual. It ended with us challenging Canada’s self-described “national newspaper” about a range of stories in which ideologically-driven narratives seemed to trump fact. We are two long-in-the-tooth Canadian journalists who began our careers in the 1980s. We’ve written investigative pieces about
Paul Benedetti and Wayne MacPhail
· 12 min read
James Baldwin and the Trouble with Protest Literature
“The hardest thing in the world to do,” wrote Ernest Hemingway in a 1934 article for Esquire, “is to write straight honest prose on human beings. First you have to know the subject; then you have to know how to write. Both take a lifetime to learn and anybody is
Samuel Kronen
· 24 min read
Why Climate Science Is Like the Rest of Science
Recent White House initiatives suggest that addressing climate change has risen to the policy forefront of government at the presidential level for the first time in US history. Last week President Biden convened an online international meeting of heads of state on the issue and committed the US to a
Lawrence M. Krauss
· 6 min read