Anti-Zionism as Redemptive Racism
Contemporary anti-Zionism encodes a totalising worldview that blends the tributaries of Nazi, communist, and Islamist anti-Zionism into a single stream.
Shalom Lappin
· 15 min read
History
A collection of 441 posts
Treacherous Men
A fabulous new history of the Cambridge Five by Antonia Senior provides the definitive account of Britain’s most famous traitors.
Ronald Radosh
· 12 min read
From Babylon to Eurovision
My nephew's schoolmate sang at Eurovision last week. Here is what the people who booed him don't understand.
Lynda Ben-Menashe
· 6 min read
The Ballad of East and West
In a fascinating new book, historian Anthony Bale vividly reconstructs the brutal, fantastical, and sometimes deeply religious experiences of medieval travellers across Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.
Benny Morris
· 13 min read
Nixon Was Right
After all these years, the Communist Party is still handcuffed to its American rival, and it is unable to break free.
Aaron Sarin
· 10 min read
Statecraft and Seduction
In an excellent new biography of Rasputin, British military historian Antony Beevor argues that perception can be a more powerful shaper of world events than reality.
Ron Capshaw
· 9 min read
What Did You Think Decolonisation Meant?
Decolonisation theory operates as a rigid, Manichaean ideology that neatly divides the world into evil perpetrators and innocent victims.
Maarten Boudry
· 7 min read
The UN’s Historically Selective Denunciation of Human Bondage
The transatlantic slave trade was a monstrous crime against humanity. Yet it represented just one example of an ancient evil that spanned many civilisations.
Brian Stewart
· 9 min read
Foreign Power, Local Politics
Where local collaboration is absent, foreign intervention imposes enormous costs or simply stalls. Where it exists, intervention can succeed with surprising velocity.
Pablo Policzer
· 10 min read
Rohmer at Camelot
Éric Rohmer’s Perceval le Gallois (1978) vividly recreates the imaginative world in which the people of the Middle Ages lived inside their heads.
Charlotte Allen
· 22 min read
Communism’s Obsolescence
The structural case for why collectivist systems fail.
Michael Aaron Cody
· 6 min read
What Makes the West Western?
Naoíse Mac Sweeney’s new book tries to convince readers that Western civilisation doesn’t exist.
James Kierstead
· 15 min read
An Ambivalent Relationship
Southeast Asia in World War II, Part Three: Independence Movements under Japanese Occupation
Imran Said
· 22 min read
Why Europe Still Misreads America
Why Germans fear American religion, and what this reveals about Europe.
Andreas Paul John
· 6 min read
Power Beyond Realpolitik
In geopolitics, moral culture shapes whether influence is experienced as leadership or domination, cooperation or coercion.
Scott Atran
· 8 min read