Romanticising the Hunter-Gatherer
It is important to note that this does not take into account the difficulty or danger involved in the types of tasks undertaken by hunter-gatherers.
William Buckner
· 14 min read
History
A collection of 448 posts
What Ancient Cultures Can Teach Us About Grief, Mourning, and the Continuity of Life
The mourning traditions of earlier cultures prescribed precise patterns of behavior that facilitated the public expression of grief and provided support for the bereaved.
Daniel Wojcik and Robert Dobler
· 5 min read
The Pre-Modernism of the Future
What is most needed in our present crisis is a philosophy that can move through the impasse between modernism and postmodernism.
Patrick Lee Miller
· 27 min read
Why Didn't the Industrial Revolution Happen in Rome?
What, I wondered, would have happened had Jesus emerged in a Roman Empire that had gone through an industrial revolution?
Helen Dale
· 8 min read
JFK Conspiracies Are Slowly Dying
Browsing responses to the recent release of assassination documents, this is where the best reporting and analysis can be found.
Craig Colgan
· 12 min read
Ratko Mladić's Conviction — Evidence and Mass Graves Still Matter
Convicting Mladić, who stood accused for his involvement in implementing and orchestrating the forcible transfer and eventual elimination of the Bosnian Muslim population.
Melanie Klinkner
· 4 min read
Misunderstanding Capitalism
This debate offered an opportunity to reflect on the respective merits of capitalism and socialism (the Jacobin representatives’ preferred alternative) and lessons from the past that might help us to build a better tomorrow.
Christopher Reuenthal
· 12 min read
Poverty, Cosmopolitanism, and Historicism
Instead of emulating the Western experience, are increasingly pursuing indigenous paths to modernity.
Carl Ritter
· 8 min read
Populism — 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
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
Postmodern Creationism in Academia — Why Evergreen Matters
The central problem with the university administration’s opinion column was that none of the accusations were relevant to the fieldwork and research in question.
Norbert Francis
· 14 min read
Muslim Vikings — 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
Rethinking Gender, Sexuality, and Violence
We should work to devise effective solutions to continue that progress, rather resorting to using all men as scapegoats for the violence that remains.
Gideon Scopes
· 14 min read
The Biological Case for Criminal Justice Reform
“We’ve successfully banished the notion of punishment in that realm,” Sapolsky writes. “It may take centuries, but we can do the same in all our current arenas of punishment.”
Hal Conick
· 6 min read