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.
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.
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.
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.
After three punishing years of war, the Trump administration is preparing to reduce a ravaged country to the status of US protectorate.
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.
The parallels between Nazism and communism complicate the standard left–right divide.
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.
America just switched sides in the Ukraine war.
Both Israelis and Palestinians have a reasonable claim to live in the Holy Land, based on deep local roots.
Activists on both sides have an incentive to keep Critical Race Theory undefined and ambiguous.
Peter Beinart has responded to the 7 October massacre and subsequent Gaza war with a deeply duplicitous book.
Eminem’s music helped him to cope with his own suffering. It also helped his listeners cope with theirs.
Those seeking to address the crisis on America’s campuses should resist the tendency toward nihilism—the temptation to conclude that we need to just (metaphorically) burn it all down.
Legions of Canadian university students are now required to mumble fatuous platitudes about decolonisation as a condition of graduation. It’s effectively become Canada’s national liturgy.