Champlain Goes to War In the thirteenth instalment of our series on the history of Canada, Greg Koabel describes the crucial battlefield alliance that French explorers forged with Indigenous allies in 1609. Greg Koabel 19 Oct 2023 · 26 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
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
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
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 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
Rise of the Goths In the inaugural instalment of ‘The So-Called Dark Ages,’ podcaster Herbert Bushman introduces readers to the Gothic civilization that would eventually help bring down the Roman Empire. Herbert Bushman 31 Aug 2023 · 18 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
Are We Teaching That Slavery Is Beneficial? That slaves were able to develop beneficial skills while in bondage is a tribute to the human ability to wrest value and create meaning even under conditions of almost unfathomable duress. James B. LaGrand 8 Aug 2023 · 4 min read
Not a Genocide Terrible things happened at many of Canada’s Residential Schools. But describing these institutions as instruments of mass murder is inaccurate. Ian Gentles 2 Aug 2023 · 34 min read
Eight Hundred Years of Russian Despotism: An Interview with Orlando Figes In a new book, the historian traces modern Russian aggression to an apocalyptic mythology rooted deep in the nation’s past. Jonathan Kay 7 Jul 2023 · 10 min read
Celebrating the Legacy of Canada’s First Prime Minister Far from being an ‘architect of genocide,’ John A. Macdonald championed policies that were humane by 19th-century standards Greg Piasetzki 1 Jul 2023 · 11 min read
