Gabrielle Bauer

The book takes the position—shared by many scientists, as it turns out—that managing a pandemic is not just about containing a virus, but about steering the human family through a societal upheaval.

Covid media, like so much else in modern life, has become hopelessly fractured: the tall, left-facing trees dominate the landscape, telling the story of a deadly virus that we “did the best we could” to manage. Below the tree canopy lies the tangle of weeds that sway in the wind, whispering songs of freedom and warning against the totalitarian impulses that all too readily emerge during crises. While I'll continue to throw my essays at those unyielding trees, the messy underbrush is where I've found my journalistic home.

On warm weekend afternoons you'll often find my husband and me sitting in Adirondack chairs on the boardwalk of our Toronto neighbourhood, sipping coffee while gazing at Lake Ontario's undulating surface. Known as the Beaches to some and the Beach to others (a longstanding local dispute), the district hugs a stretch of the lake's north shore and, despite being close to downtown, has a cozy small-town vibe.

Do you know what aroace means? Greyromantic? Or cupiosexual? When the boomer generation was growing...

Picture this: a couple in their late thirties adopts a newborn after years of infertility and more years plowing through the adoption bureaucracy.

One of the features of populism is framing political groups as Us versus Them—Us classical liberals are at loggerheads with populists.

Over the past two decades you may have noticed that court cases are being dismissed more frequently due to a lack of s tanding . The doctrine of s

I didn’t give much thought to freedom until four years ago, at age 63. Freedom was just there, like the water surrounding a goldfish. And then the Covid-19 ...

My moral tastebuds, triggered for years by an increasingly priggish, intolerant — and, yes, racist — left, wanted to see Team Blue cut down to size.

A big-pharma writer explains why RFK's health mandate works for her.