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A review of Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe by Niall Ferguson. Allen Lane, 496 pages (May 2021) Viewed from a certain angle, history appears to be the legacy of our errors—the record of humanity risking too much and anticipating too little, getting things wrong and getting them wrong all
In fact, the single most common technique for insisting that Austen is anti-slavery is for the critic to draw an equivalence between slavery and her depiction of social class, or her portrayal of the status of women.
As sexual violence was reaching historic lows, the narrative was demanding the opposite. The definition of sexual violence began to be broadened, and so the numbers grew.
Many Finnish soldiers felt pity for their opponents, prodded into battle by merciless commissars.
Indeed, the title misleads: On Property focuses more on the historical threads linking the slave plantations to the abuses of modern policing than it does on its purported subject matter.
Crimes, no matter how heinous, cannot be passed onto the progeny like some modern variant of the original sin, condemning them to unending purgatory.
In the north, the Maritime Archaic gave way to Pre-Dorset Palaeoeskimos (as they are known in the literature) that had recently arrived from Siberia.
In some former British colonies, confronting the dispossession and murder of native peoples has prompted efforts at apology and restitution.
A long-ago speech by a foreign dignitary may hold the key to recovering some lost wisdom about how America came into this role in the first place.
Finding out the truth about any aspect of Hunter Thompson’s life is frustrating given his propensity for self-mythologising.
The underlying assumption of The Immortality Key is that the human need to reconcile itself with death is a core element of religion.
Andrews believes none of this. He is right in seeing that the United States is now the world’s foremost imperial nation—it dominated most of the 20th century, assuming the white man’s burden from the British and the French.
The film gave me nightmares and panic attacks. I did what I could with such difficult information.
A huge part of Duncan’s appeal is his humble, layman’s approach.
Hong Kong’s political culture is being dismantled.