Architecture as Revenge Brady Corbet’s panoramic epic, ‘The Brutalist,’ may be technically brilliant, but it is a cheat and a fraud. Charlotte Allen 3 Feb 2025 · 15 min read
Shakespeare Versus the Girlboss Jodi Picoult’s latest novel is a ham-fisted expression of cultural rage, embodying the most anodyne values of corporate human-resources departments. Marilyn Simon 16 Jan 2025 · 14 min read
Agitprop at the AHA If the American Historical Association formally adopts a resolution accusing Israel of “scholasticide,” it could destroy the organisation’s reputation for serious scholarship. Jeffrey Herf 15 Jan 2025 · 15 min read
The (First) Conquest of Quebec In the 24th instalment of ‘Nations of Canada,’ Greg Koabel describes how British adventurers briefly seized Quebec and Acadia following the Anglo-French War of 1627–29. Greg Koabel 8 Jan 2025 · 29 min read
A Very American Madness America is not fallen; it is simply given to periodic bouts of insanity. The patient is tiresome; the patient is ridiculous; but the patient is stable. Ronald W. Dworkin 12 Dec 2024 · 17 min read
Oversimplify and Vilify ‘The Message’ is a lopsided, unserious, and frequently embarrassing essay, the real target of which is the very existence of Israel. Mark Horowitz 11 Dec 2024 · 12 min read
The Recline of the West Since the 18th century, the very process of innovation was uniquely institutionalised in the West. That is now precisely what is being globalised. Lawrence Cahoone 6 Dec 2024 · 18 min read
Trump and the Academic Cocoon A New York Times op-ed by a Yale historian tries to see universities from the vantage point of an outsider. Instead, it unwittingly illustrates why universities will not self-correct without external intervention. Heather Mac Donald 28 Nov 2024 · 12 min read
Anti-Zionism’s German Roots While Islam traditionally treated Jews with contempt, antisemitic conspiracy theories imported from Germany escalated this animosity by vilifying Jews as agents of diabolical evil. Gerfried Ambrosch 18 Nov 2024 · 11 min read
A Fashionable Madness: The Obsession with ‘Settler Colonialism’ The works of literary critic Adam Kirsch and of novelist and memoirist Joan Didion provide a salutary rebuttal of settler colonialist theory. Robert Huddleston 17 Oct 2024 · 14 min read
Podcast #253: A Brief History of Communism Jonathan Kay speaks with Bard College historian Sean McMeekin about his new book, To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism. Quillette / Sean McMeekin 4 Oct 2024 · 16 min read
Where Virtue Meets Terror: A Brief History of Proto-Communism In a new book on the history of communism, Sean McMeekin traces the movement’s roots to egalitarian creeds embraced throughout history by prophets, philosophers, utopians, and serfs. Sean McMeekin 10 Sep 2024 · 18 min read
Melvin Lasky: Diary of a Cold Warrior Melvin Lasky was an indefatigable defender of the liberal spirit during the recovery of postwar Germany. Oscar Clarke 19 Aug 2024 · 13 min read
Africa and the History of Civilisation The history of Africa isn’t the history of the ‘black race,’ but a vital part of the history of human civilisation. Ralph Leonard 16 Jul 2024 · 11 min read
Making America British Again The story of William Cobbett and the American Revolutionary culture wars. David A. Wilson 9 Jul 2024 · 13 min read
