A collection of 441 posts
While Islam traditionally treated Jews with contempt, antisemitic conspiracy theories imported from Germany escalated this animosity by vilifying Jews as agents of diabolical evil.
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to author Adam Kirsch about the growing corps of academics and activists seeking to demonise ‘settler colonialists’ in North America, Australia—and especially Israel.
A new version of Tinto Brass and Bob Guccione’s notorious 1979 film ‘Caligula’ provides a valuable record of one of the most fascinating disasters in cinema history.
Jay McInerney’s debut novel was the first work of fiction to explore yuppie culture, and its success changed American publishing.
The works of literary critic Adam Kirsch and of novelist and memoirist Joan Didion provide a salutary rebuttal of settler colonialist theory.
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.
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.
Melvin Lasky was an indefatigable defender of the liberal spirit during the recovery of postwar Germany.
The history of Africa isn’t the history of the ‘black race,’ but a vital part of the history of human civilisation.
The story of William Cobbett and the American Revolutionary culture wars.
In a new book, Justine Firnhaber-Baker tells the story of the Capetian dynasty (987–1328), whose rulers stitched a set of medieval duchies and counties into a single kingdom.
Contra the critics, the advent of nuclear weapons has made the world far safer.
Had he lived long enough to witness the fruits of liberal capitalism, perhaps Orwell would finally have accepted the failure of socialism.
Notes on the pro-Hamas Left and its antecedents.
A new radio series about the 1943 Bengal famine favours culture-war polemic over rigorous scholarship.