Quillette Narrated

A short history of phoney peace groups and their fellow travellers.

Skin colour, genetics, race, and racism.

The death toll under Communist regimes is of incredible magnitude. Yet whenever I attack Communism for being an evil ideology, I get a serious number of rebuttals.

A New York Times op-ed by a Yale historian tries to see universities from the vantage point of an outsider. Instead, it unwittingly illustrates why universities will not self-correct without external intervention.

Syria’s crisis demonstrates the importance of power.

While Islam traditionally treated Jews with contempt, antisemitic conspiracy theories imported from Germany escalated this animosity by vilifying Jews as agents of diabolical evil.

While claims of skill transfer may be overblown, there is still benefit to be had in the tiny, claustrophobic world of the game.

In her new book, ‘Autocracy, Inc.,’ historian Anne Applebaum provides us with a distinctive and indispensable guide to one of the great challenges of our time.

The accepted view is that the scientists of the European Enlightenment got the issue of race badly wrong. In fact, some of them got more right than they are usually given credit for.

The urge to censor is based on a misunderstanding of what makes literature valuable.