Samuel Veissière

Jan 14, 2025 | quillette.com | Jeffrey Herf |Susie Linfield |Samuel Veissière

On 5 January 2025, at a business meeting of the American Historical Association (AHA) held in New York City, the assembled members voted 428 to 88 in favour of a “resolution to oppose scholasticide in Gaza.” The resolution had been proposed by an organisation of left-wing historians calling themselves Historians for Peace and Democracy (HPD).

Jan 14, 2025 | quillette.com | Susie Linfield |Samuel Veissière |Claire Lehmann

Newspapers, television stations, and social-media accounts worldwide have been filled with news of Bashar al-Assad’s gulag of torture centres since the dictator fled and his regime collapsed on 8 December.

Jan 14, 2025 | quillette.com | Samuel Veissière |Claire Lehmann |Thomas Doherty

After many delays, Canada’s Memorial to the Victims of Communism was officially opened at Wellington and Bay Streets in the nation’s capital on 12 December 2024. The memorial was originally meant to include a display of names honouring individuals who had fought against Soviet oppression, but it attracted controversy and protests when it emerged that some of the honourees might have fought for the Nazis during the Second World War.

Jan 13, 2025 | quillette.com | Samuel Veissière |Claire Lehmann |Thomas Doherty |Greg Koabel

Editor’s Note: This article was first published in Areo Magazine in September 2020. I know of no country in which, for the most part, independence of thought and true freedom of expression are so diminished as in America … In America, the majority traces a tremendous circle around thought. Within its limits, the writer is free, but a great misfortune will befall those who depart from it. [The dissenter] will face disgusts of all kinds and everyday forms of persecution.