A collection of 451 posts
The century-old moral panics and persecutions by Anthony Comstock and the Society for the Suppression of Vice are echoed today by cancellation campaigns from the moralistic Left and Right.
In April 1940, Danes, Germans, Brits, Americans, and Canadians had designs on the world’s largest island. Eighty-five years later, many of their arguments sound eerily familiar.
An interview with the curators of the Ghetto Fighters’ Museum, the first Holocaust museum founded by Holocaust survivors.
The Third-Worldist roots of the Islamic Republic.
When combined thoughtfully with traditional historical methods, analysis of ancient DNA can illuminate the lives, characters, and motivations of people long dead.
The Arabs still believe that they are fighting a colonial war against Israel. But they are not.
The fate of the Weimar Republic stands as a warning of what happens when societies and their citizens indulge extremism.
Evil pollutes everything it touches; for a long time I wrestled with my own shame, as though I bore some guilt by association.
How kinship, culture, and genetics shaped one of humanity’s oldest taboos.
An interview with Peggy Sastre.
The hyper-sexualized nature of many gay subcultures threatens to undo the important human-rights progress we’ve made over the course of my lifetime.
An impressive new biography of Jessica Mitford emphasises her sceptical and anti-authoritarian personality. But this was only half of the picture.
What we can learn from the moral and literary failings of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and James Baldwin.
The homogenisation of culture begins with the loss of language.
In the 28th instalment of ‘Nations of Canada,’ Greg Koabel describes the deadly conflicts that emerged in the late 1630s between the Wendat and Haudenosaunee confederacies.