Stopped Cold: Remembering Russia's Catastrophic 1939 Campaign Against Finland
Many Finnish soldiers felt pity for their opponents, prodded into battle by merciless commissars.
Sean McMeekin
· 13 min read
Europe, China, and the New Global Hierarchy
Europe has benefited greatly from the fact that the dominant power for the past 75 years has been a liberal democracy—a flawed liberal democracy, no doubt, but a liberal democracy all the same.
Aaron Sarin
· 11 min read
Australian Indigenous Activists Call Out White Feminism's Deadly Blind Spot
The very language we now use to discuss social justice and feminism is being subjected to American critical-race ideology and intersectional feminism.
Edie Wyatt
· 8 min read
Podcast 145: Sean McMeekin on ‘Stalin’s War: A New History of World War II’
Quillette’s Jonathan Kay speaks with Bard University history professor Sean McMeekin about his new book, which describes how the fears and ambitions of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin shaped the course of the Second World War.
Quillette, Sean McMeekin
· 1 min read
Rinaldo Walcott’s On Property—A Review
Indeed, the title misleads: On Property focuses more on the historical threads linking the slave plantations to the abuses of modern policing than it does on its purported subject matter.
Jonathan Salem-Wiseman
· 8 min read
The Permanence of Segregation
Indeed, given existing levels of residential segregation on all continents—urban, suburban, and rural—it is also not practically possible (and almost always politically impossible) to redraw the lines that determine attendance in ways that would produce more integration.
Michael S. Merry
· 16 min read
The Search to Explain Our Anxiety and Depression: Will ‘Long COVID’ Become the Next Gender Ideology?
Long COVID is just the latest example of the sort of idea that will become popular among this generation—and it certainly won’t be the last.
Jonathan Kay
· 9 min read
Splendid Triviality: Philosophy, Art, and Sport in a Time of Crisis
They are necessary because without them none of the things that are noble can flourish.
Craig Clifford
· 9 min read
Can You Teach Children to be Anti-Racist?
Just as we can teach children multiplication facts, we assume we can teach them the attitudes to the world that we want them to have.
Greg Ashman
· 6 min read
Anti-Colonialism's Bad History
Crimes, no matter how heinous, cannot be passed onto the progeny like some modern variant of the original sin, condemning them to unending purgatory.
Marian L. Tupy
· 6 min read
When Sons Become Daughters, Part III: Parents of Transitioning Boys Speak Out on Their Own Suffering
Gay men and women fought long and hard to be accepted for who they are, often battling reactionary bigotry in the process.
Angus Fox
· 18 min read
Black Lives Matter, So Refund the Police
It is precisely because black lives matter that we must recognize that defunding the police has only hurt those it was intended to help.
Andrew Sansone
· 8 min read
How Will Decolonizing the Curriculum Help the Poor and Dispossessed?
The path to progress is definitely not paved by destroying the epistemological framework bequeathed to us by the Enlightenment.
Samantha Jones
· 11 min read
The Fear and Fantasy of COVID-19 Vaccination
The politicization and generation of narratives surrounding the coronavirus (and ensuing governmental responses) funneled information flow into partitions based on political affiliation.
Iosif M. Gershteyn
· 8 min read
Georgetown's Cultural Revolution
The ranks of this new ruling class are refreshed by immigrant academics who come to understand themselves in the way progressivism understands them: as minorities who can also act victim-like if they want—a precious endowment in the cultural academic market.
Lama Abu-Odeh
· 12 min read