Celebrating the Legacy of Canada’s First Prime Minister
Far from being an ‘architect of genocide,’ John A. Macdonald championed policies that were humane by 19th-century standards
Greg Piasetzki
· 11 min read
Animal Liberation Later
Most consumers of meat know that animals matter, but they choose to act as if this isn’t the case.
Matt Johnson
· 13 min read
The Instagram Panopticon
Exhibitionism, voyeurism, and the cycle of judgement.
Ed Smith
· 16 min read
Land of Frost and Scurvy
In the sixth instalment of an ongoing Quillette series on the history of Canada, Greg Koabel describes France’s disastrous first attempt to set up a permanent colony in Quebec.
Greg Koabel
· 30 min read
The Retreat from Moscow
Prigozhin’s coup attempt raises a number of questions to which there are no reassuring answers.
John Lloyd
· 8 min read
What Does She See In Him?
The strange phenomenon of hybristophiles.
Robert King
· 6 min read
What Even Is ‘Trans’?
A new book on gender leaves no space for gender non-conformity that is not defined as 'trans'
Holly Lawford-Smith
· 7 min read
It's Hip to Be "Trad": Quillette Cetera Episode 6
Is being traditional or conservative now counter-culture?
Zoe Booth, Claire Lehmann
· 1 min read
The Sorrow and the Self-Pity
Michel Houellebecq’s new memoir reveals a man quick to find fault with others but slow to accept responsibility for his woes.
RJ Smith
· 8 min read
Clash of the Titans
Politics encourages giant-building not aesthetics.
Aidan Harte
· 8 min read
Podcast #216: Learning From an Ex-White Supremacist
Iona Italia speaks with Henry Rambow, whose Hate No More podcast tells the story of “Casper,” a one-time leader of the State Prison Skinheads.
Quillette
· 1 min read
What Lies Beneath
In ‘The Hidden Spring,’ psychoanalyst Mark Solms offers a theory of consciousness and the causal mechanisms from which it arises.
Sean Welsh
· 14 min read
After College
The coming cultural collapse of American higher education.
Peter Wood
· 12 min read
In Canada, Asking for Evidence Now Counts as ‘Denialism’
Sensational 2021 claims that unmarked Indigenous child graves had been discovered in British Columbia now seem doubtful. But saying so may soon be a criminal offence
Jonathan Kay
· 10 min read
Chaucer’s Bawdy Broad
More than six centuries after The Canterbury Tales first appeared, the Wife of Bath still has lessons to teach about love, sex, marriage, and—yes—feminism
Charlotte Allen
· 24 min read