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1 month ago | 
quillette.com | Benny Morris |Lawrence M. Krauss |Andrew Fox |Ira Wells
Washingtonâs grand strategy on the Palestinian issue remains unclear, as does its understanding of the players involved, especially Hamas, which has ruled the Gaza Strip since 2007. This is causing considerable anxiety in Jerusalem. These questions have gained pertinence and urgency following a series of interviews that Donald Trumpâs new âhostage envoy,â Adam Boehler, gave to American and Israeli media platforms.
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1 month ago | 
quillette.com | Lawrence Krauss |Andrew Fox |Ira Wells |Jonathan Kay
When my daughter was in grade four, she was instructed to write about a planet of her choice. She chose Pluto. Alas, about fifteen years later, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) decided Pluto was no longer a full-fledged planet—partly because it’s just one of a number of similarly sized objects in an area of our solar system called the Kuiper Belt.
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1 month ago | 
quillette.com | Ira Wells |Jonathan Kay |Stewart Slater |Cathy Young
HOST: Welcome to the Quillette Podcast, which is usually hosted on alternate weeks by me, Jonathan Kay, and by Iona Italia. Quillette is where free thought lives. We are an independent, grassroots platform for heterodox ideas and fearless commentary. On Book Banning: Or, How the New Censorship Consensus Trivializes Art and Undermines Democracy - BiblioasisThe freedom to read is under attack.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
thewalrus.ca | Ira Wells
“Trudeau must go or party beaten, Liberal MPs state,” went the Globe and Mail headline. It was August of 1983, and everyone knew that Pierre Elliot Trudeau, who had won his first federal election in 1968, was into his final act as prime minister; the only question was when the curtain would fall.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
thewalrus.ca | Ira Wells
Let me tell you about the sandwich I ate for lunch: a mouth-watering, foot-long torpedo of teriyaki chicken on multigrain bread, beautifully crafted by a true artist. The price, however, was enough to induce indigestion: $21.36 after tax and a 15 percent tip. Over the past couple of years, some version of this observation has become commonplace in group chats and around dinner tables: everything is too damned expensive.
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Jun 28, 2024 | 
iwells.substack.com | Ira Wells
For the last six years, I walked my son to his elementary school each morning. (Let’s forget about those Covid months, which included a lot of walking, but not to school.) It was a just a few blocks, little more than a half kilometer, through our leafy, residential neighbourhood in east Toronto. You saw the same parents every morning doing the same walk.
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Jun 3, 2024 | 
theglobeandmail.com | Ira Wells
Open this photo in gallery:Dan Wells, founder of Windsor-based book publisher Biblioasis, reviews a manuscript in his office in November 2021.Joanna Gigliotti/The Globe and MailPlease log in to bookmark this story.Log InCreate Free AccountIra Wells is an Associate Professor at Victoria College in the University of Toronto. For centuries, cultural consumers have assumed that art is the product of cosmopolitan centres.
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Jun 3, 2024 | 
theglobeandmail.com | Ira Wells
Open this photo in gallery:Dan Wells, founder of Windsor-based book publisher Biblioasis, reviews a manuscript in his office in November 2021.Joanna Gigliotti/The Globe and MailPlease log in to bookmark this story.Log InCreate Free AccountIra Wells is an Associate Professor at Victoria College in the University of Toronto. For centuries, cultural consumers have assumed that art is the product of cosmopolitan centres.
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May 30, 2024 | 
thewalrus.ca | Ira Wells
Should children be allowed to smoke cigarettes at school? Strange as it sounds, there was a time when senior educators in Ontario believed they should. In 1985, given the overwhelming evidence of smoking’s harms, the Ontario Medical Association urged a ban on student smoking.
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Feb 1, 2024 | 
thecjn.ca | Lila Sarick |Ira Wells
The Jewish community in Toronto lost a towering leader when Rabbi Dovid Schochet, the president of the Toronto Rabbinical Council and the senior rabbi of the Chabad community in Toronto, passed away at the age of 91 on Jan. 28. He was born in 1932 in Basel, Switzerland, the second of 10 children, to Rabbi Dov Yehuda and Sara Sosha Schochet. After moving from Switzerland to Holland in 1947, where his father served as the chief rabbi of The Hague, the family eventually settled in Toronto.
