Raymond Aron and the Art of Politics For Aron, politics is the art of living together, the art of the possible, and requires an “acute awareness” of the limitations of our power to influence reality. Alan S. Rome 8 Mar 2024 · 12 min read
The Laurentian Coalition Takes Root In the 16th instalment of ‘Nations of Canada,’ historian Greg Koabel describes how Samuel de Champlain overcame a decade of frustration by finally establishing a successful French fur-trading monopoly. Greg Koabel 12 Jan 2024 · 25 min read
Western Europe’s Forgotten Nightmare In a new book, Rachel Chrastil artfully illuminates the history of the 1870 Franco-Prussian War, in all its senseless horror. Jonathan Kay 6 Jan 2024 · 14 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
The Great Napoleonic Novel “It’s a sin to want to die for a nation.” Josh Allan 16 Nov 2023 · 7 min read