Megalopolis: Bloated, Outré—and Brilliant Like a Hieronymus Bosch painting, it’s chaos alright—but it’s a dazzling chaos. Ralph Leonard 13 Nov 2024 · 8 min read
Roman Polanski’s ‘Chinatown’ Fifty Years On Chinatown is noir at its bleakest, yet most stylish. Ralph Leonard 13 Aug 2024 · 9 min read
Africa and the History of Civilisation The history of Africa isn’t the history of the ‘black race,’ but a vital part of the history of human civilisation. Ralph Leonard 16 Jul 2024 · 11 min read
Understanding the Jewish Catastrophe Dan Stone's new book shows how important aspects of the Holocaust have been neglected in popular consciousness. Ralph Leonard 5 Feb 2024 · 12 min read
History on Horseback: Napoleon Bonaparte The French emperor and military commander played a pivotal role in an epochal transformation. Ralph Leonard 4 Dec 2023 · 16 min read
British and Black Contemporary antiracism imposes an American framework that distorts our understanding of racial issues in different countries. Ralph Leonard 20 Oct 2023 · 12 min read
Black or White, It's the Same Old Anti-Semitic Pathology Unlike the 2018 Pittsburgh synagogue shooter or the 2019 Poway synagogue shooter, the suspects in these attacks weren’t white supremacists. Ralph Leonard 7 Jan 2020 · 7 min read