The Tyranny of Fragility How Alexis de Tocqueville foretold the rise of victimhood culture. Samuel Veissière 13 Jan 2025 · 8 min read
Three Hard Truths About California’s Fire Crisis Climate change makes fires more dangerous. Government competence matters. And preventing catastrophic fires requires expensive, unpopular measures. Claire Lehmann 12 Jan 2025 · 7 min read
Podcast #267: The Tragedy of California’s Wildfires Jonathan Kay speaks with University of Southern California scholar William Deverell about what he calls the ‘new fire regime in the American West.’ Quillette 12 Jan 2025 · 13 min read
A Perfectly Charming Chinese Girl Against long odds and in the face of exclusionary casting, Anna May Wong bequeathed us an extraordinary cinematic legacy. Thomas Doherty 9 Jan 2025 · 11 min read
The (First) Conquest of Quebec In the 24th instalment of ‘Nations of Canada,’ Greg Koabel describes how British adventurers briefly seized Quebec and Acadia following the Anglo-French War of 1627–29. Greg Koabel 8 Jan 2025 · 29 min read
This Is Not Late-Stage Capitalism Automation, artificial intelligence, and robotics are set to redefine the relationship between labour, capital, and production. John Aziz 8 Jan 2025 · 7 min read
Keeping BDS Out of Academia: A Canadian Case Study Recordings from a recent Brock University faculty union meeting illustrate the tactics that anti-Israel activists use to co-opt ostensibly neutral academic institutions. Jonathan Kay 7 Jan 2025 · 10 min read
Shame on Us for Ever Believing Him Justin Trudeau convinced me he was a sunny patriot who’d unify Canada. What I got instead was a cynical culture warrior who smeared opponents as bigots and defamed my country as a genocide state. Jonathan Kay 7 Jan 2025 · 8 min read
China’s Autoimmune Disorder China is now turning its rage inward. Aaron Sarin 5 Jan 2025 · 6 min read
Podcast #266: Reading and Writing Science Iona Italia talks to eminent evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins about science, literature, and genetics. Quillette 4 Jan 2025 · 23 min read
Against the Death Penalty The state should not assume the right to end the lives of its citizens at will. Ralph Leonard 2 Jan 2025 · 9 min read
The New Middle East The Hamas attack of 7 October 2023 set a series of events in motion that have shifted the balance of power in the region in a way the terrorists themselves never intended. Benny Morris 1 Jan 2025 · 13 min read
Unmasked and Anonymous A brief history of Bob Dylan on screen. Benjamin Kerstein 1 Jan 2025 · 18 min read
