A Fashionable Madness: The Obsession with ‘Settler Colonialism’ The works of literary critic Adam Kirsch and of novelist and memoirist Joan Didion provide a salutary rebuttal of settler colonialist theory. Robert Huddleston 17 Oct 2024 · 14 min read
Podcast #253: A Brief History of Communism Jonathan Kay speaks with Bard College historian Sean McMeekin about his new book, To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism. Quillette 4 Oct 2024 · 16 min read
Where Virtue Meets Terror: A Brief History of Proto-Communism In a new book on the history of communism, Sean McMeekin traces the movement’s roots to egalitarian creeds embraced throughout history by prophets, philosophers, utopians, and serfs. Sean McMeekin 10 Sep 2024 · 18 min read
Melvin Lasky: Diary of a Cold Warrior Melvin Lasky was an indefatigable defender of the liberal spirit during the recovery of postwar Germany. Oscar Clarke 19 Aug 2024 · 13 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
Making America British Again The story of William Cobbett and the American Revolutionary culture wars. David A. Wilson 9 Jul 2024 · 13 min read
France’s Founding Fathers: A Review of ‘House of Lilies’ In a new book, Justine Firnhaber-Baker tells the story of the Capetian dynasty (987–1328), whose rulers stitched a set of medieval duchies and counties into a single kingdom. Charlotte Allen 26 Jun 2024 · 20 min read
Apocalypse Never Contra the critics, the advent of nuclear weapons has made the world far safer. Mike Coté 10 Jun 2024 · 12 min read
Springtime for Sinwar Notes on the pro-Hamas Left and its antecedents. Jeffrey Herf 2 May 2024 · 21 min read
Bad History at the BBC A new radio series about the 1943 Bengal famine favours culture-war polemic over rigorous scholarship. Hira Jungkow 2 May 2024 · 6 min read
Swastikas of Both Sorts: Hindu Nationalism's Fascist Nostalgia Hindu nationalism is nostalgic for a golden age that never existed, before the invasions of first the Muslims and then the British. Anwesh Satpathy 30 Apr 2024 · 12 min read
Misadventures of a Stalinist Stooge Benn Steil’s engrossing new biography of Henry A. Wallace is a timely cautionary tale and a masterpiece of 20th-century American history. Ronald Radosh 25 Apr 2024 · 23 min read
Erdogan’s Hypocrisy While routinely declaring that Israel’s behaviour toward Hamas is genocidal, Erdogan has consistently denied the real genocides carried out by Turkey. Benny Morris 22 Apr 2024 · 9 min read
Johann Blumenbach: The First Race Scientist 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. Coel Hellier 13 Mar 2024 · 13 min read
Why Newly Independent Countries Must Reject Radical Decolonization The contrasting histories of Singapore, Tanzania, and Sri Lanka demonstrate the dangers of attempting to erase the colonial past. Jay Sophalkalyan 10 Mar 2024 · 15 min read
