The Ultimate ‘Concept Creep’: How a Canadian Inquiry Strips the Word ‘Genocide’ of Meaning
All societies lie to themselves about genocide. But the nature of the lies change over time.
Jonathan Kay
· 9 min read
History
A collection of 382 posts
Conspiracism at the Atlantic
The Atlantic may think that the anti-Shakespeare campaigners offer an entertaining diversion. Its editors certainly failed to pick up the failings of Winkler’s research, yet I believe the issue is a lot more serious than that.
Oliver Kamm
· 10 min read
Seventy-five Years Later, Hungary Still Hasn’t Come to Terms with its Role in the Holocaust
The only way to start healing from these crimes is to acknowledge how they happened.
Anna Porter
· 9 min read
A Girl’s Place in the World
Men (and, less often, women as well) across societies all over the world have used violence in an attempt to control women’s reproductive outcomes and limit the choices available to them, and in many circumstances, men have benefited from doing so.
William Buckner
· 15 min read
Here Comes the Story of the Hurricane
The subject of Bob Dylan’s famous 1976 protest song was probably guilty.
Lona Manning
· 26 min read
The Scars of Rwanda, 25 Years On
Dallaire, abandoned in hell, the commander unable to command, let alone protect, developed severe post-traumatic stress disorder.
Jessica Robeson
· 12 min read
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
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