Franceās Founding Fathers: A Review of āHouse of Liliesā In a new book, Justine Firnhaber-Baker tells the story of the Capetian dynasty (987ā1328), whose rulers stitched a set of medieval duchies and counties into a single kingdom. Charlotte Allen 26 Jun 2024 · 20 min read
Apocalypse Never Contra the critics, the advent of nuclear weapons has made the world far safer. Mike CotĆ© 10 Jun 2024 · 12 min read
Springtime for Sinwar Notes on the pro-Hamas Left and its antecedents. Jeffrey Herf 2 May 2024 · 21 min read
Bad History at the BBC A new radio series about the 1943 Bengal famine favours culture-war polemic over rigorous scholarship. Hira Jungkow 2 May 2024 · 6 min read
Swastikas of Both Sorts: Hindu Nationalism's Fascist Nostalgia Hindu nationalism is nostalgic for a golden age that never existed, before the invasions of first the Muslims and then the British. Anwesh Satpathy 30 Apr 2024 · 12 min read
Misadventures of a Stalinist Stooge Benn Steilās engrossing new biography of Henry A. Wallace is a timely cautionary tale and a masterpiece of 20th-century American history. Ronald Radosh 25 Apr 2024 · 23 min read
Erdoganās Hypocrisy While routinely declaring that Israelās behaviour toward Hamas is genocidal, Erdogan has consistently denied the real genocides carried out by Turkey. Benny Morris 22 Apr 2024 · 9 min read
Johann Blumenbach: The First Race Scientist The accepted view is that the scientists of the European Enlightenment got the issue of race badly wrong. In fact, some of them got more right than they are usually given credit for. Coel Hellier 13 Mar 2024 · 12 min read
Why Newly Independent Countries Must Reject Radical Decolonization The contrasting histories of Singapore, Tanzania, and Sri Lanka demonstrate the dangers of attempting to erase the colonial past. Jay Sophalkalyan 10 Mar 2024 · 15 min read
Attila Invictus In the eighth instalment of āThe So-Called Dark Ages,ā Herbert Bushman describes the Hunsā increasingly violent incursions into the Eastern half of the Roman Empire. Herbert Bushman 8 Mar 2024 · 19 min read
In Defence of the EU The European Union has been overwhelmingly successful in achieving its primary mission: guaranteeing peace. James Graham 4 Mar 2024 · 13 min read
Greeks and Jews: Two Diaspora Peoples The histories of these two groups reveals the sinister implications of an ideology that holds that some people are more ānaturalā to a place than others. Katherine Kelaidis 1 Mar 2024 · 7 min read
The NYT Misrepresents the History of the IsraeliāPalestinian Conflict A welter of factual errors and misleading judgments has produced a distorted description of the 1948 War. Benny Morris 27 Feb 2024 · 12 min read
Understanding the Jewish Catastrophe Dan Stone's new book shows how important aspects of the Holocaust have been neglected in popular consciousness. Ralph Leonard 5 Feb 2024 · 12 min read
Make Way for the Jesuits In the seventeenth instalment of āNations of Canada,ā Greg Koabel describes how The Society of Jesus became a powerful player in the colonization of North America. Greg Koabel 30 Jan 2024 · 25 min read
