In a new book, the historian traces modern Russian aggression to an apocalyptic mythology rooted deep in the nation’s past.
The cure for poverty and climate change is nuclear.
They say it takes a village to raise a child. What happens when that ‘village’ tries to convince your autistic daughter she was ‘born in the wrong body’?
The SCOTUS decision on affirmative action has ended a hypocritical and incoherent policy.
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to acclaimed historian Orlando Figes, whose new book traces Russia’s political dysfunction back to the age of Byzantium and the Mongol invasion. This podcast is also available on YouTube.
The popularity of Harry Potter reveals a yearning for rites of passage that no longer exist.
Far from being an ‘architect of genocide,’ John A. Macdonald championed policies that were humane by 19th-century standards
Most consumers of meat know that animals matter, but they choose to act as if this isn’t the case.
Exhibitionism, voyeurism, and the cycle of judgement.
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.
Prigozhin’s coup attempt raises a number of questions to which there are no reassuring answers.
The strange phenomenon of hybristophiles.
A new book on gender leaves no space for gender non-conformity that is not defined as 'trans'
Is being traditional or conservative now counter-culture?