The Cancellation of Bertrand Russell
Eight decades later, the issues raised by the Russell case—the rights to free speech and academic freedom—have still not been settled.
James Huffman
· 9 min read
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A Kiss Is Just a Kiss
The uproar over a fleeting outburst of uninhibited joy is ludicrous.
Heather Mac Donald
· 9 min read
When Trans Activism Becomes Government Policy
Even as other nations finally move to protect dysphoric youth from disfiguring treatments, Canadian politicians and educators continue to promote state-funded ‘gender journeys.’
Margaret Wente, Jonathan Kay
· 23 min read
The Lab-Leak Illusion
The laboratory accident hypothesis of COVID-19’s origins is a bust, but the popular consensus is unwilling to accept it.
Jamie Palmer
· 53 min read
Beware Psychotherapy That Works
Much has been written about the problems caused by therapy when it fails. Less discussed are the problems it can cause when it succeeds.
Steve Salerno
· 11 min read
My Journey Out of Extremism
And how I became a small-l liberal.
Richard Hanania
· 11 min read
How Accurate is Christopher Nolan’s ‘Oppenheimer’?
A nuclear engineer reviews the blockbuster film.
Robert Zubrin
· 10 min read
New Atheism and the Demand for Dogma
The notion that we abandoned our old faiths and replaced them with new ones is too tidy and simplistic.
Matt Johnson
· 10 min read
RIP, Richard Bilkszto, a Toronto Educator Who Stood up to Woke Bullying—and Paid the Price
Two years after being falsely smeared as a white supremacist by a diversity trainer, a longtime school principal committed suicide
Jonathan Kay
· 10 min read
The Pseudoscience of Critical Race Theory
Critical Race Theory is not a hard science. It’s not even a soft science.
Julian Adorney
· 10 min read
Podcast # 218: McMaster’s Imaginary Sex Ring: Uncovering Administrators’ Role in Inflaming a Campus Social Panic
Lawrence Krauss, host of The Origins Podcast, interviews Jonathan Kay about his Quillette investigation into the spread of false rape allegations on a Canadian university campus in 2020—and the lessons that can be learned.
Quillette
· 1 min read
After College
The coming cultural collapse of American higher education.
Peter Wood
· 12 min read
In Canada, Asking for Evidence Now Counts as ‘Denialism’
Sensational 2021 claims that unmarked Indigenous child graves had been discovered in British Columbia now seem doubtful. But saying so may soon be a criminal offence
Jonathan Kay
· 10 min read
The First Stone
Philip Schofield and his critics could both learn a lot from Oscar Wilde’s prison memoir.
Andrew Gleeson
· 10 min read
America Doesn’t Need Regime Change
Patrick Deneen has written a book that reproduces and encourages a form of self-deception that’s pervasive in the United States on the populist Right.
Damon Linker
· 16 min read