The Green Energy Delusion The current approach to energy and environmental policy isn’t just unsustainable—it has put us on a collision course with reality. Paul Brown 4 Mar 2025 · 14 min read
German Democracy’s Uncertain Future Friedrich Merz must take the concerns of ordinary citizens seriously—particularly on immigration and Islam. He must prove that such concerns can be addressed without veering into extremism. Gerfried Ambrosch 4 Mar 2025 · 9 min read
Antiscientific Vandalism Musk and Trump are inflicting catastrophic damage on biomedical research. Evan D Morris 3 Mar 2025 · 6 min read
The Worst Racial Slur, In Context Rare is the word that has antithetical meanings depending on the speaker and listener, the intent and reception. This is one such rarity. Steve Salerno 2 Mar 2025 · 15 min read
Podcast #274: David Frum on Donald Trump’s Betrayal of Ukraine Jonathan Kay speaks with Atlantic writer David Frum about Trump’s pro-Russian political cult. Also discussed: Israel, the fate of Gaza, Justin Trudeau, and the strange social panic surrounding Canada’s (as yet undiscovered) ‘unmarked graves.’ Quillette 1 Mar 2025 · 2 min read
The End of NATO, or The Sixth Impossible Thing The Trump administration has liquidated the postwar international order. Adam Garfinkle 1 Mar 2025 · 20 min read
Four Years. Zero Graves. Now What? In 2021, Canadians were told that the remains of 215 Indigenous children had been found at a former school. The story turned out to be false—but no one in authority seems to know how to walk it back. Jonathan Kay 27 Feb 2025 · 13 min read
New France 2.0 In the 25th instalment of ‘Nations of Canada,’ Greg Koabel describes the creation of Quebec’s first permanent farming settlements in the 1630s—and the death of Samuel de Champlain. Greg Koabel 26 Feb 2025 · 26 min read
Monogamy and the Making of Western Civilisation The institution of monogamy in Classical Greece may have led to a host of phenomena that shaped the modern West: from individualism and abstract thinking to liberalism and democracy. James Kierstead 26 Feb 2025 · 8 min read
A Violent History Obscured South Korean Nobel laureate Han Kang’s literary experimentation thwarts rather than advances her professed concern for the suffering of everyone, everywhere, all the time. Brad Strotten 26 Feb 2025 · 7 min read
Ukraine’s Terrible Choice After three punishing years of war, the Trump administration is preparing to reduce a ravaged country to the status of US protectorate. John Lloyd 25 Feb 2025 · 16 min read
From Imperium to Expansionism Donald Trump is often described as an imperialist and an expansionist and these terms are usually used interchangeably. Neither of these descriptions is meant to be flattering, but the larger problem is that they are imprecise. Ronald W. Dworkin 24 Feb 2025 · 13 min read
Were the Nazis Left-Wing? The parallels between Nazism and communism complicate the standard left–right divide. Gerfried Ambrosch 24 Feb 2025 · 9 min read
Podcast #273: Australia’s Antisemitism Crisis Quillette editor-in-chief Claire Lehmann speaks with Bangladeshi-born Australian psychiatrist and journalist Tanveer Ahmed about the rise of Jew-hatred in their country. Quillette / Claire Lehmann / Tanveer Ahmed 23 Feb 2025 · 2 min read
The Ultimate Betrayal America just switched sides in the Ukraine war. Francis Fukuyama 21 Feb 2025 · 4 min read