History

Life in The Grim Old Days

Chelsea Follett's new history shows how wretched life was before the industrial revolution, but our escape from it began long before the steam engine.

Robert Zubrin 4 Oct 2026 · 9 min read

Nine-year-old Do Van Ngoc shows napalm injuries before a tribunal panel in Stockholm, 1976.

Genocide and Its Jurors

In 1967, left-wing intellectuals accused America of genocide in Vietnam—they were wrong then, and they’re wrong again now.

Maia Zelkha 24 Sep 2026 · 8 min read

Hiroshima: A Hinge Point for Humanity

Kiyoshi Tanimoto’s extraordinary testimony about the Hiroshima attack and its aftermath has been published by his daughter some forty years after his death.

Michael M. Rosen 22 Sep 2026 · 7 min read

History Uprooted

A new exhibition at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg peddles PLO myths about Israel’s war for independence in 1948.

Jeffrey Herf 22 Sep 2026 · 13 min read

‘This Country Is But One Scene of Massacre’

In the 31st instalment of ‘Nations of Canada,’ Greg Koabel describes the violent provocations that tipped the St. Lawrence region into all out war in the late 1640s.

Greg Koabel 17 Sep 2026 · 25 min read

Black-and-white shop window with handwritten ‘Pay Your Tax Now Here'

The Retro Fashion of the Wealth Tax

Every few decades, the ideas with the worst track records come back into style.

Kristian Niemietz 10 Sep 2026 · 8 min read

Three panels depicting, from left to right, Brahim Hadjadj, Mohamed Ben Kassen, and Jean Martin in The Battle of Algiers, directed by Gillo Pontecorvo in 1966.

‘The Battle of Algiers’ at Sixty

Watching Gillo Pontecorvo’s film six decades after its release permits a nuanced understanding of the events that it portrays, which was unavailable when it first came out.

Shalom Lappin 29 Aug 2026 · 13 min read

Old photo. Two suited men sit at a desk in a radio studio, facing each other beside CBS microphones and papers; one wears glasses.

L’Affaire Shirer Revisited

The rise, fall, and rise again of one of the 20th century’s most important journalists.

Thomas Doherty 20 Aug 2026 · 10 min read

A group of people gather on a dry hillside above Qusra in the occupied West Bank.

Creeping Annexation

Israeli governments have never decided what to do with the West Bank—so the settlers have begun deciding for them.

Benny Morris 18 Aug 2026 · 9 min read

The Rise of Sainte-Marie Among the Hurons

In the 30th instalment of ‘Nations of Canada,’ Greg Koabel describes the expanding Jesuit presence of the late 1630s—and the increasingly bitter opposition it provoked among France’s local Indigenous allies.

Greg Koabel 27 Jul 2026 · 21 min read