Erdogan’s Hypocrisy While routinely declaring that Israel’s 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 · 13 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 ‘The So-Called Dark Ages,’ Herbert Bushman describes the Huns’ 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 “natural” to a place than others. Katherine Kelaidis 1 Mar 2024 · 7 min read
The NYT Misrepresents the History of the Israeli–Palestinian 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 ‘Nations of Canada,’ 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
A Gathering of the Huns In the seventh instalment of ‘The So-Called Dark Ages,’ Herbert Bushman describes how disparate Hunnic tribes coalesced into the unified force that would terrorize Europe. Herbert Bushman 23 Jan 2024 · 16 min read
Israel’s Occupation of Gaza in 1956–57 Many of the questions that have arisen since October 7 have been raised before. Benny Morris 13 Jan 2024 · 12 min read
The Laurentian Coalition Takes Root In the 16th instalment of ‘Nations of Canada,’ historian Greg Koabel describes how Samuel de Champlain overcame a decade of frustration by finally establishing a successful French fur-trading monopoly. Greg Koabel 12 Jan 2024 · 25 min read
The Language of Soviet Propaganda Progressive anti-Zionism and the poisonous legacy of Cold War hatred. Izabella Tabarovsky 11 Jan 2024 · 15 min read
A Dense Thicket of Contending Visions In his latest novel, Tom Piazza imagines the finest meeting of American minds never to have happened. Matt Hanson 7 Jan 2024 · 6 min read
Western Europe’s Forgotten Nightmare In a new book, Rachel Chrastil artfully illuminates the history of the 1870 Franco-Prussian War, in all its senseless horror. Jonathan Kay 6 Jan 2024 · 15 min read
