The contortions that the transgender phenomenon has foisted on the medical profession’s language are myriad—and pernicious. Although 20th-century thinkers had described man as “the symbol-making animal,” we have demonstrated, in our day, that we are symbol-destroying animals as well. The way in which the medical profession has conspired to warp both language and bodies to conform to a series of self-defining fictions [...]
Tanis Cortens Quillette magazine’s podcast released an episode on Oct. 10 entitled “Desexing the Language of Motherhood,” in which maternal and infant health specialist Karleen Gribble joined host Iona Italia to discuss the trend toward gender-neutral terminology in the field of women’s health. Italia and Gribble talked about Gribble’s article, “The Desexing of Language in Women’s Health Research and Care: A Story [...]
"I Humbly Beg Your Speedy Answer”: Letters on Love and Marriage from the World’s First Personal Advice Column Mary Beth Norton (Princeton, $34, 203 pages) In the 1690s, John Dunton published a two-page broadsheet, the Athenian Mercury, a double-sided broadsheet that was “the world’s first advice column,” answering queries from anonymous writers and responded to by the paper’s anonymous Athenian Society of [...]
Paul Tuns, Review Moral Issues: How Public Opinion on Abortion and Gay Rights Affects American Religion and Politics by Paul Goren and Christopher Chapp (University of Chicago Press, $42.50 pb, 223 pages) In their book Moral Issues: How Public Opinion on Abortion and Gay Rights Affects American Religion and Politics, Paul Goren, director of the Center for the Study of Political Psychology [...]
Canadians divided on abortion, euthanasia, not so much on divorce, contraception Paul Tuns: On Oct. 16, Research Co. released the results of their online poll on what behaviours Canadians find morally acceptable from abortion and euthanasia to marital affairs and gambling. With the exception of pedophilia, there was significant support for most immoral behaviours and majority support for many of them. While [...]
Paul Tuns: On Oct. 8, the British Columbia legislature voted 48-40 against the Protecting Minors from Gender Transition Act, a comprehensive, 11-page bill that would have outlawed medical transitioning of minors and restricted social transitioning of children. “I stand before you today not only as a member at this legislature but as a mother,” OneBC Party MLA Tara Armstrong (Kelowna-Lake Country-Coldstream) said [...]
John Carpay: The new Justice Centre report Post-COVID Canada: The Rise in Unexpected Deaths explains how the latest Statistics Canada death data discredits the government-and-media narrative that Canadians were fed in 2020 and 2021. Politicians and media were wrong about COVID, wrong about lockdowns, and wrong about the COVID vaccines. COVID was much closer to being a bad annual flu than it [...]
Rick McGinnis: Interim writer, Rick McGinnis, Amusements On May 20, 2020, just two months into the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns, New York governor Andrew Cuomo gave one of his daily press conferences – a “state of the plague” address of sorts, reliably covered in the legacy media. (He would win an Emmy for “masterful use of television to inform and calm [...]
Paul Tuns: Editor’s Note: There are descriptions of graphic sex acts in this story. The Center for Family and Human Rights (C-FAM) published a report that reveals the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has developed resources and funded activities that promote obscene sex-ed programs, homosexuality, and transgenderism to children. In “UNICEF Programs Sexually Groom Children: Evidence of UNICEF Promoting Comprehensive Sexuality Education, [...]
A New Guide to Sex in the 21st Century Louise Perry (Polity, $19.95, 165 pages) In 2022, feminist journalist Louise Perry wrote The Case against the Sexual Revolution: A New Guide to Sex in the 21st Century, which poignantly prosecuted the case against the notion that the Sexual Revolution liberated women. She has updated and adapted her book to gear it toward [...]
Victor Penney: Interim writer Victor Penney, Sporting Life It turns out I have something in common with the greatest golfer in the world and, no, it has nothing to do with our abilities. Scottie Scheffler makes the game look easy and has earned tens of millions of dollars playing it. On my end, golf has every right to get a [...]
Donald DeMarco: “Dialogue” is a word that brings to mind fairness and respect for both sides of the debate. For the most part, however, it is a concerted attempt on the part of one side to achieve a triumphant monologue. In other words, certain people who propose dialogue use the word as camouflage to conceal their own intentions. I once taught a [...]
Gideon Spevak: A trend has been forming within Western democratic institutions, one that contradicts the democratic ideal of such bodies: Elected officials face censure and being stripped of their rights (and obligations) as members of elected bodies to represent their constituents — at the hands of their fellow members, with whom they often find ideological differences. In May 2025, the U.S. Supreme [...]
Rick McGinnis: Interim writer, Rick McGinnis, Amusements With the recent announcement that government employees must return to their work in office, the physical remnants of the COVID-19 lockdowns are mostly gone. Do you remember where your vaccination documents are? The arrows on the floors of stores telling us which direction to walk are gone, as are the stickers on subway [...]
UN agencies use AI to spy on youth UN agencies are targeting adolescents around the world—India, Eastern and Southern Africa, the Philippines—by spying on them for their attitudes towards contraception, abortion access, and sexual identity. The agencies target youth with information to change their traditional, family views on these controversial issues. UNFPA (United Nations Fund for Population Activities) works in more [...]