Milan Kundera Warned Us About Historical Amnesia. Now It's Happening Again
Conflict-induced-apathy can be manipulated for political ends.
Ewan Morrison
· 8 min read
History
A collection of 346 posts
Socialism's Endless Refrain: This Time, Things Will Be Different
This socialist revival is, of course, neither a homogenous movement, nor a fully worked-out policy program.
Kristian Niemietz
· 7 min read
The French Genocide That Has Been Air-Brushed From History
For the most influential historians who held positions of power in major French institutions, the French Revolution was not a research topic but an origin myth—the heart of their secular faith’s cosmology.
Jaspreet Singh Boparai
· 18 min read
The Meaning of the Self-Destructive Strike at WSU
History suggests another explanation, which has been left unexamined that radicalized union leadership is part, perhaps the primary part, of the problem.
Evan Osborne
· 8 min read
'Vice'—A Review
The Republican running the session effortlessly fools the group into accepting facts that the audience (of smart liberals, of course) know to be lies.
Louise Perry
· 7 min read
Understanding Modern African Horrors by Way of the Indian Ocean Slave Trade
The modernizing elites of these groups then fought with the British during WWI and WWII, and demanded independence after the war, which they got.
Geoffrey Clarfield
· 7 min read
Adventures in Adjunctopia
Among academics, it is considered a badge of honor to be paid in copies, or not at all. After all, you can’t put a price tag on genius!
Steve Salerno
· 6 min read
Glenn Greenwald's Bad History
Had Henry A. Wallace become President of the United States, it would have been the equivalent of Stalin directly taking over the highest levels of the American government.
Ronald Radosh
· 9 min read
Enlightenment Wars: Some Reflections on 'Enlightenment Now,' One Year Later
As Thomas Paine wrote, “To argue with someone who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.”
Steven Pinker
· 52 min read
60 Years On: Reflections on the Revolution in Cuba
It would be decades before the people fully understood the fraudulence of 1959’s heady idealism, but it was corrupt from the start.
Jorge C. Carrasco
· 6 min read
"Heroic Guerrilla"—From Revolutionary Militant to Saint
Before his corpse was cold, the Che cult had a ready-made logo; a brand. But what exactly does it signify?
George Schifini
· 13 min read
Solzhenitsyn: The Fall of a Prophet
In exile, Solzhenitsyn turned to harsh criticism of the West, not just for failing to stand up to the Soviet regime and fully confront its malevolence.
Cathy Young
· 14 min read
The Children of the Revolution
Mao Zedong activated China’s youth—unblemished and uncorrupted in heart and mind—to lead the struggle for purity.
James David Banker
· 9 min read
What Can We Learn from Dictators' Literature?
Dictators, of course, are terrible people. They also tend to be terrible writers. Yet many tyrants have entertained the illusion that they were literary super geniuses. Mein Kampf and Quotations from Chairman Mao (aka The Little Red Book) are the best-known works in the dictatorial canon, but they represent only
Daniel Kalder
· 10 min read
What Does the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Mean Today?
The UDHR’s crucial claim is that the question of man’s nature is not merely academic or philosophical. It has moral consequences.
Alexandra Hudson
· 15 min read