Hollywood Autocrat A newly restored Blu-ray release of ‘Foolish Wives’ offers a welcome reintroduction to one of cinema’s most gifted and eccentric artists. Jaspreet Singh Boparai 13 Oct 2023 · 12 min read
The Male Obsession with Ancient Rome We are all Rome’s children. Its legacy is everywhere we look. Stewart Slater 12 Oct 2023 · 9 min read
Columbus Day: A Fraught Celebration The world is better than it would have been had we remained isolated from each other—even for Native Americans. Christopher J. Ferguson 9 Oct 2023 · 7 min read
Man Out of Time A look back at the career of Avery Corman, who found popular success with ‘Kramer versus Kramer’ before running afoul of feminism. Kevin Mims 6 Oct 2023 · 19 min read
Sculpture and Story Narrative art has been deeply unfashionable for about a century. But aren’t art and stories inextricable? Aidan Harte 2 Oct 2023 · 20 min read
King of the Goths In the third instalment of ‘The So-Called Dark Ages,’ podcaster Herbert Bushman describes the rise of Alaric I, whose Gothic armies roamed Greece and the Balkans before marching on Rome itself. Herbert Bushman 2 Oct 2023 · 20 min read
A Country in the Making Sean Penn’s surprising new documentary explores “extreme history” in war-torn Ukraine. Brian Stewart 29 Sep 2023 · 6 min read
The Communication Revolution Like the first iPhone, Gutenberg’s Bible opened up avenues of development that entrepreneurs have been exploiting ever since. James Hannam 27 Sep 2023 · 10 min read
Champlain Gives It Another Go In the twelfth instalment of an ongoing Quillette series on the history of Canada, Greg Koabel describes France’s halting efforts to create a permanent Canadian settlement in the early 1600s. Greg Koabel 27 Sep 2023 · 30 min read
‘Augie March’ Turns 70 An Interview with Saul Bellow’s biographer Zachary Leader. Riley Moore 22 Sep 2023 · 12 min read
Strange New Sci Fi If truth is the first casualty of war, then perhaps good fiction is the first casualty of culture war. Johnny Schmidt 21 Sep 2023 · 17 min read
Huns to the North. Romans to the South In the second instalment of ‘The So-Called Dark Ages,’ podcaster Herbert Bushman describes the events that sparked the fateful Gothic invasion of the Roman Empire. Herbert Bushman 19 Sep 2023 · 25 min read
Charles Darwin: The Best Scientist-Writer of All Time The Voyage of the Beagle is a literary masterpiece, as well as a scientific one. Lawrence M. Krauss 18 Sep 2023 · 9 min read
History Matters A restoration of history, in all its complexity, is critical to escaping the polarized, rigid, and often insane political environment we now inhabit. Joel Kotkin 14 Sep 2023 · 16 min read
A Kiss Is Just a Kiss The uproar over a fleeting outburst of uninhibited joy is ludicrous. Heather Mac Donald 11 Sep 2023 · 9 min read
