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
History
A collection of 390 posts
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
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
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
Terror and Transformation
Southeast Asia in World War II, Part Two: The Japanese Occupation and Its Repercussions
Imran Said
· 12 min read
Populism’s Self-Defeating Trap
Populist rhetoric is exceptionally effective for pursuing and gaining power, but it provides no program for the complexities of actual governance.
Tomislav Kardum
· 7 min read
The Moral Collapse of Empire
Southeast Asia in World War II, Part One: Japanese Conquests and British Disgrace
Imran Said
· 22 min read
England’s Founding Father
How a 10th-century warrior-statesman forged a unified England and why his legacy still matters in our identity-obsessed day.
Ralph Leonard
· 14 min read
Epstein Mania on the Digital Borderlands
The longevity of the Epstein story owes less to new facts of criminal conduct than to its symbolic utility in alleging deviancy.
Claire Lehmann
· 6 min read
A History of Morality Clauses
The century-old moral panics and persecutions by Anthony Comstock and the Society for the Suppression of Vice are echoed today by cancellation campaigns from the moralistic Left and Right.
E. Lily Yu
· 14 min read
That Other Greenland Standoff
In April 1940, Danes, Germans, Brits, Americans, and Canadians had designs on the world’s largest island. Eighty-five years later, many of their arguments sound eerily familiar.
Greg Koabel
· 22 min read