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The Worst Racial Slur, In Context Rare is the word that has antithetical meanings depending on the speaker and listener, the intent and reception. This is one such rarity. Steve Salerno 2 Mar 2025 · 15 min read
Podcast #274: David Frum on Donald Trump’s Betrayal of Ukraine Jonathan Kay speaks with Atlantic writer David Frum about Trump’s pro-Russian political cult. Also discussed: Israel, the fate of Gaza, Justin Trudeau, and the strange social panic surrounding Canada’s (as yet undiscovered) ‘unmarked graves.’ Quillette 1 Mar 2025 · 2 min read
The End of NATO, or The Sixth Impossible Thing The Trump administration has liquidated the postwar international order. Adam Garfinkle 1 Mar 2025 · 20 min read
Four Years. Zero Graves. Now What? 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. Jonathan Kay 27 Feb 2025 · 13 min read
New France 2.0 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. Greg Koabel 26 Feb 2025 · 26 min read
Monogamy and the Making of Western Civilisation 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. James Kierstead 26 Feb 2025 · 8 min read