The Poverty of Cosmopolitan Historicism
Instead of emulating the Western experience, are increasingly pursuing indigenous paths to modernity.
Carl Ritter
· 8 min read
History
A collection of 382 posts
Populism and Nostalgia's False Promise
Fear of individual and cultural extinction is both a cause and a product of the nostalgia so widespread in both Europe and America today.
Henry George
· 10 min read
The Problems of “Privilege”: Lessons from the French Revolution
It has almost been forgotten that the concept of privilege, and critiques of privilege as the source of society’s ills, are nothing new in history.
Blake Smith
· 9 min read
How the Politics of the Left Lost Its Way
One important – and overlooked – effect was how it changed the idea of the term “Left” in political terminology.
Geoffrey M Hodgson
· 5 min read
Muslim Vikings and Abuses of History
Why did a flimsy interpretation of a small artefact from provincial Sweden seem so important to the English-language world’s most powerful news outlets?
Blake Smith
· 5 min read
Applebaum vs. Fitzpatrick: Is History Political?
It is important to follow the lead of both Applebaum and Fitzpatrick in standing firm in pursuit of the truth, whatever it might be.
Anna Lukina
· 7 min read
Yes, the Romans Were Diverse—but Not in the Way We Understand It
For Aristides, Rome was the ultimate polis: the dispenser of just government, and through its unique constitution the embodiment of principled republicanism.
Ben Bassett
· 13 min read
What to do with Confederate Statues?
Many Russian people lived through the Soviet experience. Not so for the Confederacy.
James Glaser
· 5 min read
America’s Real Pivot
Trump’s speech highlighted these key aspirations, and struck the right notes, for his intended audience—the socially conservative.
Sumantra Maitra
· 6 min read
Bald Men Fighting Over a Comb: Arguments About the Classical Tradition
Most of the praise comes only from Classics teachers, or others easily impressed by a thin veneer of learning.
Sandra Kotta
· 19 min read
Bald Men Fighting Over a Comb: Arguments About the Classical Tradition
The Culture Wars and Beyond is an exemplary study: thorough, balanced, judicious, elegantly written, and all the better for its notably even tone and scrupulous sense of fairness.
Sandra Kotta
· 20 min read
A Hundred Years of Communism
Ben Sixsmith
· 7 min read
The Troubles and The Terror
Ben Sixsmith
· 4 min read
How Will History Remember Obama?
Mostly, however, it was just disappointment. In both race relations and foreign relations, Obama unleashed forces, either deliberately or carelessly, which were beyond his control.
Sumantra Maitra
· 6 min read
The Restart of History and the Russia Question
There should be no misunderstanding that Russia is an adversarial great power.
Sumantra Maitra
· 10 min read