"Far from a superficial, consumerist version of pleasure, happiness, according to the founders, resembled what Aristotle called eudaimonia: fulfilment, satisfaction, completeness." @michaelmrosen on the Declaration of Independence at 250. quillette.com/2026/07/01/pro…

Zohran Mamdani's allies in New York want to abolish the police, prisons, borders, and capitalism. Fine — but abolish and replace with what? @aziz0nomics traces the rise of a new radical mood on the left: less interested in building a replacement system, more interested in tearing the current one down. quillette.com/2026/07/01/abo…

The Left calls him a hypocrite. The Right calls him a martyr of cancel culture. A new book says both sides are using Jefferson as a "flag of convenience" — and misses what actually made him tick. Ron Capshaw's review digs into agrarian republicanism, the Louisiana Purchase, and why Jefferson himself predicted the Civil War. quillette.com/2026/07/01/glo…

In my @quillette investigation of the CPS, I described how a clique of stridently pro-"affirmation" doctors still controls the Cdn debate on childhood transition E.g. Dr Daniel Metzger, who calls the Cass Review "garbage" Some frustrated Cdn doctors have been sharing their experiences with me—including one who had his article on GAC rejected from a Cdn journal bcuz … he’d cited the Cass Review

In 2024, the Cass Review became the most rigorous analysis ever published on youth gender medicine. By 2026, even the British Medical Association — after a two-year internal effort to debunk it — conceded it was "robust." So why did the Canadian Paediatric Society just appoint a president who calls that review "garbage"? Jonathan Kay's investigation traces how Canadian medical institutions diverged from the international evidence base — and what it reveals about how dissent gets suppressed inside academic medicine. quillette.com/2026/06/29/how…

I spoke to a group of concerned Canadian paediatricians about how their country’s medical establishment, and the Canadian Paedicatric Society in particular, has become such a radicalized outlier in its enthusiasm to transition children.

Shameless plug 🙃🙃 @Quillette’s YouTube channel has been sitting at 98k subscribers for over a month now 🤔 super sus. Especially sus considering our views have been pretty consistent. At 100k subs, YouTube sends you an award… are they conspiring to withhold said award??? I have many questions. Anyway, if you could do me a favour, please subscribe to our YouTube channel if you’re not already 🙏 Our YouTube channel is like my baby. I’ve worked really hard to grow it over the last few years. I’ve seen it go from 5k subs to where it is now. Let’s get it to 100k piped.video/@quillette?si=Ce…

Graham Daseler reviews JD Vance's new book on finding faith for @Quillette quillette.com/2026/06/29/in-…

The US vice president’s new memoir leaves an unflattering impression of its author. quillette.com/2026/06/29/in-…

30 years ago today, the original lineup of KISS kicked off their reunion tour at Tiger Stadium in Detroit, Michigan. It was the culmination to one of rock music’s greatest comeback stories. Read more in my article about KISS Alive! for @Quillette. quillette.com/2025/10/10/fif…

"Did the humanities go woke because they went broke? That scenario has become one of the more persuasive explanations for the present crisis in the humanities. As their enrolments declined and federal funding shrank, and universities began sending money (and, thus, prestige) toward STEM and professional programs, the humanities went looking for support wherever they could find it. If serious funders wanted academic work to be framed in the language of social justice, then scholars were willing to adapt accordingly. Tyler Austin Harper recently made this case in The Atlantic, arguing that what looked like ideological capture may, in fact, be economic desperation. There is truth in this. As a STEM professor, I have watched as the modern university has become more and more driven by the types of metrics that favour my side of campus: grant dollars, industry partnerships, obvious economic utility, and jobs for graduates. The engineering school can point to nanotechnologies; the biomedical school to cancer drugs; and the chemistry and computer science departments to batteries and artificial intelligence, respectively. In stark contrast, an English department has a harder time proving its worth to administrators who are, increasingly, looking for money to fund an ever-expanding university." quillette.com/2026/06/26/the…

New from me at @Quillette: Les Liaisons Dangereuses, defeating cancel culture for almost 250 years quillette.com/2026/06/26/dan… (And the new London production, whose filmed version may now be onscreen near you!)