Culture & Society Articles
Plastic surgeons’ group advises delaying gender surgery until age 19
Paul Tuns: On Feb. 3, the American Society of Plastic Surgeons issued a new recommendation that so-called gender affirming surgery [...]
Surgeon, psychologist lose surgical transition malpractice suit
In legal first, a detransitioner successfully sued her medical care team Paul Tuns: On Feb. 2, a White Plains, N.Y., jury [...]
Transgender surgeries for minors in Saskatchewan exposed
Paul Tuns: Rebel News reported that according to provincial data they obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request, “The [...]
Debriefing after the Conservative convention
Josie Luetke: Like a kicked dog coming back for more, I flew to Calgary for the 2026 Conservative Party of [...]
Observations on the continuing crisis
From the editor’s desk: In the United Kingdom, the House of Lords is debating whether to legalize euthanasia. We have [...]
Death becomes them
For the mainstream media, every angle of an awful event is a programming opportunity. When mass shootings and attempted assassinations [...]
Mental health and mass shootings: the link between transgenderism and violence
Tanis Cortens, Feature Writer: U.S. Vice President JD Vance’s Cincinnati, Ohio, residence was broken into on Jan. 5. The Vance [...]
Deaths: of neocons, of manners, of childbearing
From the editor’s desk As we were ready to go to press, Norman Podhoretz died. He was one of the [...]
Wrestling with fatherhood
Sporting Life, Victor Penney: Do you want to know one of the easiest ways to get under the skin of [...]
Besides endangering individual health, legalization threatens community safety
Tanis Cortens: The array of health problems caused by cannabis has serious consequences. A May 2023 analysis by Quest Diagnostics [...]
Legalizing marijuana sends negative health effects rippling through society
Tanis Cortens: Though Trump is considering reclassifying marijuana with less dangerous substances such as testosterone and ketamine, strong evidence suggests [...]
High society
In the 1960s, Malcolm Muggeridge remarked that “sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a [...]
And then there was this, December 2025
David takes down Goliath: Student newspaper wins defamation suit against pro-abortion professor The Irish Rover is an independent, non-profit student newspaper [...]
‘The Great Feminization’ and other observations
From the editor’s desk: In October, Compact published a provocative essay by Helen Andrews titled “The Great Feminization” in which she [...]
Trans identification in decline
Oswald Clark: Eric Kaufmann of the Centre for Heterodox Social published a report in October, “The Decline of Trans and [...]