Misremembering the Korean War The profound difference in quality of life on opposing sides of the 38th parallel today offers a rebuke to those who portray the US-led intervention in Korea as immoral or futile. Niranjan Shankar 29 Nov 2022 · 15 min read
How New Orleans Became a Hive of JFK Conspiracism Jim Garrison’s theory of the presidential assassination was based on false evidence and homophobic paranoia. Yet many still believe he was right. Michel Jacques Gagné 22 Nov 2022 · 14 min read
Ken Kesey and the Rush to Deinstitutionalization Whatever the literary strengths of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, the book has done much to harm both the mentally ill and their communities. Stephen Eide 14 Nov 2022 · 11 min read
Benito Mussolini and the Fascist Love Affair with Soccer Embracing a sport that combines nationalism, mass spectacle, and physical refinement, Il Duce set out to make Italy a World Cup champion. Luciano Wernicke 29 Oct 2022 · 7 min read
FDR and the Holocaust A widely praised new series by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, and Sarah Botstein distorts the historical record to rehabilitate a flawed US president. Ronald Radosh 27 Oct 2022 · 25 min read
In the Shadow of the Mushroom Cloud Biden, Putin, and the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. Robin Ashenden 25 Oct 2022 · 15 min read
A Strange and Brutal Country Adam Curtis’s new BBC series provides a unique insight into Russia’s late-twentieth-century collapse. Christopher J. Snowdon 24 Oct 2022 · 6 min read
‘The Dawn of Everything’ and the Politics of Human Prehistory David Graeber and David Wengrow’s tendentious assault on the Enlightenment and its modern defenders is a bust. Dennis J. Junk 22 Oct 2022 · 21 min read
Reckon with This We cannot rethink history to console those it embarrasses. George Case 8 Oct 2022 · 8 min read
The U.S. and the Holocaust—A Review Ken Burns’s new six-hour documentary is a work of extraordinary synoptic power and intelligence. Thomas Doherty 21 Sep 2022 · 15 min read
Our Glorious Unhead of State The idea of an Australian republic is attractive to some, but there's a strong case for a humble head of state. Harry Lehmann 21 Sep 2022 · 4 min read
The Young Elizabeth, Seen Through a Child’s Eyes The diaries of Elizabeth’s wartime companion illustrates the special burdens faced by royalty—and Elizabeth’s fitness to bear them Barbara Kay 14 Sep 2022 · 12 min read
Never Apologize for Trying to Tell the Truth Those who repress inconvenient facts or produce fictitious evidence to nourish a politically convenient story are simply not historians. Jeffrey Herf 13 Sep 2022 · 7 min read
Malthusian Theory Has Always Been False A review of Superabundance: The Story of Population Growth, Innovation, and Human Flourishing on an Infinitely Bountiful Planet by Marian Tupy and Gale Pooley. (August 2022) Robert Zubrin 8 Sep 2022 · 8 min read
The Infantilization of Culture and History We should reject an unfalsifiable frame that can make anything and everything offensive or problematic, no matter how innocuous. Alan S. Rome 7 Sep 2022 · 8 min read
