Up the St. Lawrence In the fifth instalment of an ongoing Quillette series on the history of Canada, Greg Koabel describes Jacques Cartier’s first encounters with the Mi’kmaq and Iroquois. Greg Koabel 6 Jun 2023 · 23 min read
John Cabot’s New Found Land In the fourth instalment of an ongoing Quillette series, historian Greg Koabel describes how the quest for cod and a possible passage to China sparked England’s first transatlantic ventures Greg Koabel 19 May 2023 · 33 min read
Fictionalizing Māori History in the Name of Gender Ideology Around the world, trans activists are cynically attempting to drape their faddish colonial theories in the garb of timeless Indigenous wisdom. Dianne Landy 4 May 2023 · 8 min read
Uncomfortable History Grappling with Western misdeeds does not require us turn indigenous tribes into pious exemplars of moral instruction. Christopher J. Ferguson 27 Apr 2023 · 5 min read
Canada’s Norse Interregnum In the second instalment of an ongoing Quillette series, historian Greg Koabel describes how Leif Erikson ended up in Newfoundland Greg Koabel 20 Apr 2023 · 26 min read
Introducing ‘The Nations of Canada’ The project that (finally) got me hooked on Canadian history. Jonathan Kay 7 Apr 2023 · 8 min read
Canada’s First Inhabitants In a new Quillette series, historian and podcaster Greg Koabel traces the global origins of the land we now call Canada. Greg Koabel 5 Apr 2023 · 26 min read
The Enduring Cruelty of Canada’s Residential Schools In a new, meticulously sourced book, two authors use personal case studies to illuminate the injustices inflicted on Indigenous peoples by Canadian governments and churches. Andrew Stobo Sniderman / Douglas Sanderson 3 Dec 2022 · 10 min read
Exalting an ‘Anti-Colonial’ Gender Identity In a new report, Canadian educators are instructed about a Two-Spirit LGBT subcategory that, even the authors admit, lacks any real definition. Jonathan Kay 3 Oct 2022 · 7 min read
Indigenous Activists Are Targeting My Research. My Own University Is Helping Them Academics who study ancient Paleoindian populations are increasingly being denied access to skeletons, artifacts, and even old x-rays and research reports. We need to start fighting back Elizabeth Weiss 18 Aug 2022 · 10 min read
Podcast # 194: Canada’s Unmarked-Graves Social Panic: How Did the Media Get This Blockbuster Story So Wrong? Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to National Post reporter (and popular Substack author [https://therealstory.substack.com/]) Terry Glavin about the blockbuster 2021 claim [https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/28/world/canada/kamloops-mass-grave-residential-schools.html] that hundreds of murdered Indigenous children had been found in unmarked graves, the process Quillette 3 Aug 2022 · 1 min read
A Media-Fueled Social Panic Over Unmarked Graves Not a single body has been unearthed. But Canadians wouldn’t know it from the false information reported in The New York Times. Jonathan Kay 22 Jul 2022 · 16 min read
Myth-making Isn’t the Right Way to ‘Indigenise’ Our Universities Too often, the noble goal of reconciliation is being co-opted by those seeking to invent fake histories and advance politicized narratives. Terry Moore and Carol Pybus 26 Jun 2022 · 16 min read
Canada’s Racial Balkanization With their newfound fixation on race and bloodline, Canada’s WASP elites are channelling a mindset that I thought I’d left behind in the former Yugoslavia. Lydia Perović 12 May 2022 · 8 min read
The Aztec Way of Empire Six imperial rulers expanded the Mexica domain from 1430 until 1519, until the Spaniards first set foot in Tenochtitlan and disrupted the Aztec imperial agenda. Frances F. Berdan 2 May 2022 · 11 min read
