A Cartographer for the Ages In the eleventh instalment of his series on the history of Canada, Greg Koabel describes how Samuel de Champlain fundamentally redirected France’s transatlantic colonial project Greg Koabel 9 Sep 2023 · 22 min read
Israel’s Everywoman at War Helen Mirren’s Golda Meir offers a profile of greatness in the face of overwhelming adversity. Michael Oren 8 Sep 2023 · 16 min read
Our Lost Classical Learning The Western canon was not an unchanging set of texts, but an ongoing conversation that lasted thousands of years—enabling each generation to build on the intellectual heritage of the past. Brian Kaller 5 Sep 2023 · 7 min read
But is it a Bernini? A Tale of Contested Identity in the Art World How the bronze crucifix in the Art Gallery of Ontario got from seventeenth-century Rome to twenty-first century Toronto is an intriguing tale, but it is a narrative filled with gaps. Jonathan Salem-Wiseman 4 Sep 2023 · 11 min read
Remembering ‘Exodus’ A perennially controversial bestseller turns 65. Kevin Mims 4 Sep 2023 · 18 min read
Misreading Middle-Earth: Tolkien and the Contemporary Reader Fantasy is more popular than ever, and this is the direct consequence of Tolkien’s success. But the genre has survived by adapting, and in an age of secularism, that process has involved evaporating the religious themes Tolkien cared about so deeply. Josh Allan 2 Sep 2023 · 10 min read
On Marriage and Happiness It is easy for a successful writer to advise that career success isn’t that important. Would a failed writer agree? Kevin Mims 26 Aug 2023 · 9 min read
‘New France’ Stumbles Out of the Gate In the tenth instalment of an ongoing Quillette series on the history of Canada, historian Greg Koabel describes the early—and tragically unsuccessful—French efforts to create a permanent colony Greg Koabel 26 Aug 2023 · 20 min read
‘A Dream Deferred’ Revisited Shelby Steele’s masterful second book invites black America to reject redemptive liberalism and the helplessness it demands for a humanistic politics of advancement. Samuel Kronen 22 Aug 2023 · 17 min read
The Quest for Pelts In the ninth instalment of an ongoing Quillette series on the history of Canada, Greg Koabel describes how the late 16th-century fur trade developed amid a disrupted Indigenous geopolitical landscape Greg Koabel 13 Aug 2023 · 24 min read
Rock of Ages The musical legacy of Robbie Robertson is a monument to the possibilities of American song. Benjamin Kerstein 11 Aug 2023 · 12 min read
On Sontag A new collection of essays from the mid-70s offers a frustrating glimpse of the author’s strengths and weaknesses. Riley Moore 4 Aug 2023 · 11 min read
In the Spirit of the Lord Menacing, exuberant, eccentric, and ambitious—Dylan’s first evangelical record turns two-score and four. David Cohen 3 Aug 2023 · 16 min read
What History Teaches Us About the Importance of Academic Freedom This 1949 primer shows us there’s nothing new about today’s controversies about free speech on campus. James Huffman 30 Jul 2023 · 12 min read
Dare to Be Brilliant Nolan’s kaleidoscopic biopic may be his most ambitious picture to date. Brad Strotten 27 Jul 2023 · 4 min read
