History - Quillette (Page 18)

What Can We Learn from Dictators' Literature?

Dictators, of course, are terrible people. They also tend to be terrible writers. Yet many tyrants have entertained the illusion that they were literary super geniuses. Mein Kampf and Quotations from Chairman Mao (aka The Little Red Book) are the best-known works in the dictatorial canon, but they represent only

Daniel Kalder

14 Dec 2018 · 10 min read

What Does the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Mean Today?

The UDHR’s crucial claim is that the question of man’s nature is not merely academic or philosophical. It has moral consequences.

Alexandra Hudson

11 Dec 2018 · 15 min read

Orwell and the Anti-Totalitarian Left in the Age of Trump

No matter how bitterly they attack one another, they still share many of the same principles and enemies—a fact that should be just as clear to them today as it was a few years ago.

Matt Johnson

9 Dec 2018 · 16 min read

Understanding the Miracle of Hanukkah Through the Ancient World's Prism of Horrors

Judah’s men were not gentle souls.

Jonathan Kay

4 Dec 2018 · 6 min read

The Flawed History and Real Torment of Canada's Residential Schools

Brian was just one of thousands of Indigenous children who were subjected to horrendous abuse at Canada’s Indian residential schools.

Robert MacBain

4 Dec 2018 · 14 min read

Jews Revolutionized the Universities. Will Asians Do the Same?

The historical parallel between Jews and Asians is striking for a number of reasons—including the fact that both cases involve an explicit rejection of the idea that academic merit alone could be a tenable basis for admission.

Barbara Kay

23 Nov 2018 · 16 min read

My Misspent Years of Conspiracism

Given what we know about the world, what would we expect to find in the wake of the assassination had Oswald acted alone?

Jamie Palmer

22 Nov 2018 · 28 min read

Nazis: A Modern Field Guide

In the spirit of the Handbook on German Military Forces, I offer readers this brief field guide to the various kinds of “Nazis” who inhabit the world of 2018.

Jonathan Kay

31 Oct 2018 · 10 min read

Righteous Among the Nations: The Rescued Tribe of Colonel Jose Arturo Castellanos Contreras

With the release of their extraordinary documentary film The Rescue, Alvaro and his younger brother Boris haven’t just faced up to their clan’s history. They have turned it into high art.

Geoffrey Clarfield

11 Oct 2018 · 6 min read

Purity or Universalism?

The main problem with the quest for purity is that it is fine in one’s own home or church but it becomes a problem in the public square, which—by virtue of being inherently diverse and competitive—is configured to resist the wish to be pure.

Sami J. Karam

27 Sep 2018 · 10 min read

Western Civilisation "Not Welcome Here"

The new humanities maintain that for the last 500 years, Western Civilisation has got it wrong when it comes to knowledge, truth and science.

Bella d'Abrera

27 Sep 2018 · 8 min read

The Soviets and the JFK Conspiracy Theorists

We can learn far more from the files still under wraps in Russia and Belarus.

Fred Litwin

27 Sep 2018 · 11 min read

Suffragists Fought for the Female Sex

The response to my posters shows that the phrase ‘female sex’ is on its way to being classified as ‘hate speech.’

Renee Gerlich

24 Sep 2018 · 8 min read

The Fragility of the Liberal World Order

For Kagan, the architects of the post-war order sought to wed America’s new-found superpower to the construction of a world order that reflected the domestic values of America itself: a liberal international order.

Doug Stokes

23 Sep 2018 · 9 min read

Progress and Polytheism: Could an Ethical West Exist Without Christianity?

Christianity’s moral vision was not as revolutionary as a casual student of history might suppose. Nor did it equip Western society with a unique set of virtues that were unknown to the ancient world.

Ben Bassett

23 Aug 2018 · 9 min read