Rick Powell

“Our main point was that suicide mortality [among gender-distressed adolescents] was very low and explained by psychiatric morbidity. The notion that gender dysphoria per se vastly increases risk of suicide is false,” she said.

FEW THINGS ARE more mysterious than someone else’s favorite film. To hear it named is to be puzzled. You appreciate its merits but not how it can be preferable to all others. Perhaps your favorite film isn’t the one that you like best but the one that likes you best. It confirms you on first encounter, and goes on to shape you in some irreversible

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I was a big fan of Coates when he was writing and blogging for the Atlantic, where he often had a fruitful back and forth with Andrew Sullivan, but was cool to his evolution as one of the voices of what I would call bleak racial essentialism. I was also not nearly as impressed with Between the World and Me as everyone else on the left was, perhaps ... See more

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verisimilar

/ˌvɛrəˈsɪmələr/

The adjective verisimilar describes something that appears to be true or real but may not be. If you want to impress your friends, remark on the verisimilar portrait of lost love in that foreign film you all went to see.

Verisimilar comes from Latin. You’ll notice the word similar at the end, which means “like.” Veri- co... See more

Hamish McKenzie: On social media, posers are often given the most status points, and so we’re left with a misleading idea of authority; it seems the people who are loudest in their claims to be experts — the ones we hear from most on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube — are the ones to be most wary of. When self-proclaimed experts are ultimately reveal... See more