History - Quillette (Page 19)

Rejecting Progress in the Name of 'Cultural Appropriation'

Historically, it has been the European openness not only to foreign goods, but also foreign ideas – those which work, those which enhance our physical and mental wellbeing – that has signalled the forward march of modernity.

Neema Parvini

22 Aug 2018 · 7 min read

Did British Merchants Cause the Opium War?

Chen’s portrait of the Opium War places the role of British traders and their lobbying efforts in the foreground

Jeffery C. J. Chen

18 Aug 2018 · 6 min read

Norms of Good Governance: Where Do They Come From?

What is it about humans that makes democratic norms stick? What are the traits that facilitate honesty and transparency in administration at the highest levels?

Adam Perkins

17 Aug 2018 · 11 min read

The Furore Over a Quebec Theatre Production Has Missed the Point

Quebec briefly played host this summer to a theatrical production described by one prominent artist as “reminiscent of blackface minstrel shows.”

Dan Delmar

14 Aug 2018 · 7 min read

Moral Panic, Then and Now

Boycotts, de-platforming and witch hunts do “succeed” in the narrow sense that they can ruin lives. But they don’t change anyone’s privately held opinions.

Barrett Wilson

8 Aug 2018 · 8 min read

Britain's Populist Revolt

Britain has produced a Brexit debate that is utterly dry, sterile, and completely lacking in imagination.

Matthew Goodwin

3 Aug 2018 · 22 min read

Who Is to Blame for Haiti's Problems?

More than anywhere else, hope exists in environmental restoration and a healthy international credit.

Arthur Cook

3 Aug 2018 · 12 min read

Reclaiming Work as a Virtue

Somewhere along the way, many of the intellectual classes stopped believing in work as essential to survival.

Nyunggai Warren Mundine

1 Aug 2018 · 12 min read

Inducing People’s Employers to Fire Them Should Be a Civil Wrong

While social media inflames tensions, the law aims to remove emotion and passion from disputes.

Katy Barnett

28 Jul 2018 · 18 min read

Burying a Child

Societies the world over have had to adapt to high rates of infant and child mortality, developing beliefs and social traditions to mitigate the impact of seeing so many of their offspring die

William Buckner

27 Jul 2018 · 10 min read

Devastation and Denial: Cambodia and the Academic Left

Amazingly, even as Cambodia disintegrated, the Khmer Rouge benefitted from unsolicited apologetics from intellectuals at the West’s august universities.

Matthew Blackwell

15 Jul 2018 · 19 min read

A Progressive Defense of Thomas Jefferson

A better strategy would be for the American Left to celebrate Jefferson and his progressive legacy, just as their forebears once did.

Ned Borninski

6 Jul 2018 · 12 min read

Unfabling the East—A Review

Unfabling the East is a brilliant new book by Jürgen Osterhammel that goes back to the original sources, and carefully reconstructs the evolution of European views of Asia.

Michael Savage

2 Jul 2018 · 6 min read

My Dissertation Disaster

This is your chance to write in depth about what interests you,” said my lecturers as I prepared to embark upon my History dissertation.

Jack Morgan Jones

17 Jun 2018 · 11 min read

The Enlightenment's Cynical Critics

Enlightenment, it is nearly impossible to find a human society that did not, at least at times, practice slavery and engage in barbarous acts of conquest and colonization.

Katherine Kelaidis

15 Jun 2018 · 5 min read