Huck Finn or Uncle Tom?
These great books should be read together, for each illuminates a different part of the American character.
Tim DeRoche
· 8 min read
Intelligence and Health Outcomes
The importance of cognitive ability to disparities in human health is being overlooked.
Robert J. Morris
· 9 min read
The Laurentian Coalition Takes Root
In the 16th instalment of ‘Nations of Canada,’ historian Greg Koabel describes how Samuel de Champlain overcame a decade of frustration by finally establishing a successful French fur-trading monopoly.
Greg Koabel
· 25 min read
Robert Kemp Adair (1924–2020)—Notes on a Friendship
Reflections on the life and work of a superb scientist, for whom integrity and rigor were paramount.
Geoffrey C. Kabat
· 19 min read
The Language of Soviet Propaganda
Progressive anti-Zionism and the poisonous legacy of Cold War hatred.
Izabella Tabarovsky
· 14 min read
The Elgin Marbles: Playing for Keeps
The Ancient Greek sculptures are a bellwether of where the “decolonization” of museums is headed.
James Kierstead
· 14 min read
A Historian for Our Moment
Jeffrey Herf has made a scholarly commitment to document the words of Islamic Jew-hatred from their origins in Egypt and wartime Berlin. That has made him a lonely voice in the American professoriate.
Sol Stern
· 14 min read
Stupidity as Moral Negligence
Those guilty of political stupidity do not necessarily suffer from a lack of reasoning skills.
J.P. de Ruiter
· 9 min read
Strong Like Teen Spirit
Parents should be more courageous in trusting adolescents’ capacity for joy and resilience.
Marilyn Simon
· 9 min read
Claudine Gay’s Misguided Defenders
Damning facts shouldn’t be ignored just because they’re brought to light by the ‘wrong’ kind of person
The Quillette Editorial Board
· 10 min read
A Dense Thicket of Contending Visions
In his latest novel, Tom Piazza imagines the finest meeting of American minds never to have happened.
Matt Hanson
· 6 min read
China’s Weapons of Mass Destruction
The Communist Party is leaving behind mere nuclear deterrence, and accelerating towards a “first-strike” capability.
Aaron Sarin
· 8 min read
Western Europe’s Forgotten Nightmare
In a new book, Rachel Chrastil artfully illuminates the history of the 1870 Franco-Prussian War, in all its senseless horror.
Jonathan Kay
· 14 min read
Lights Out in America
The cowardice at America’s most important liberal publications is damaging democracy.
John Lloyd
· 12 min read