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In a new book on the history of communism, Sean McMeekin traces the movement’s roots to egalitarian creeds embraced throughout history by prophets, philosophers, utopians, and serfs.
Melvin Lasky was an indefatigable defender of the liberal spirit during the recovery of postwar Germany.
The history of Africa isn’t the history of the ‘black race,’ but a vital part of the history of human civilisation.
The story of William Cobbett and the American Revolutionary culture wars.
In a new book, Justine Firnhaber-Baker tells the story of the Capetian dynasty (987–1328), whose rulers stitched a set of medieval duchies and counties into a single kingdom.
Contra the critics, the advent of nuclear weapons has made the world far safer.
Notes on the pro-Hamas Left and its antecedents.
A new radio series about the 1943 Bengal famine favours culture-war polemic over rigorous scholarship.
Hindu nationalism is nostalgic for a golden age that never existed, before the invasions of first the Muslims and then the British.
Benn Steil’s engrossing new biography of Henry A. Wallace is a timely cautionary tale and a masterpiece of 20th-century American history.
While routinely declaring that Israel’s behaviour toward Hamas is genocidal, Erdogan has consistently denied the real genocides carried out by Turkey.
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.
The contrasting histories of Singapore, Tanzania, and Sri Lanka demonstrate the dangers of attempting to erase the colonial past.
In the eighth instalment of ‘The So-Called Dark Ages,’ Herbert Bushman describes the Huns’ increasingly violent incursions into the Eastern half of the Roman Empire.
The European Union has been overwhelmingly successful in achieving its primary mission: guaranteeing peace.