A collection of 21 posts
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Russell Shorto, whose new book chronicles the extraordinary events in 1664 that delivered Manhattan from the Dutch to the British.
Jefferson Morley’s dogged pursuit of a CIA connection in Miami is all smoke and no fire.
Disco Demolition Night was an early episode of culture and counterculture being saddled with far greater political significance than they deserved.
What a Cold War scandal can teach us about democracy.
Exceptionalism is a double-edged sword, which cuts those blind to America’s flaws and those blind to its virtues.
Richard Bernstein’s new book about Al Jolson and ‘The Jazz Singer’ offers a thoughtful reconsideration of an unfairly reviled cultural landmark.
How Alexis de Tocqueville foretold the rise of victimhood culture.
When we examine the entirety of his long life, we see that Jimmy Carter was among the very best of us.
In a new book, David Alff traces the origins of the railway line that joined Boston to Washington, D.C., transforming a young nation in the process.
In the 21st instalment of ‘Nations of Canada,’ Greg Koabel describes how the arrival of Dutch fur traders sparked an upheaval in regional Indigenous geopolitics.
The story of William Cobbett and the American Revolutionary culture wars.
An interview with historian Gil Troy.
The animation industry was perhaps the United States’ most potent cultural weapon during World War II.
King’s sophisticated understanding of racism bridges two worldviews: that racism is primarily systemic and as well as interpersonal.
If good educational opportunities were there for the taking, the sense of racial injustice in America would be much less.