Forgetting vs. Overcoming: Abuses of History and the 1619 Project The 1619 Project is, strangely, a history project that encourages forgetting as much as it remembers. Robert C. Thornett 2 Mar 2023 · 15 min read
Heidegger’s Downfall Richard Wolin’s reappraisal of Martin Heidegger offers both original contributions and a synthesis of critical scholarship. The result is a timely work of enduring importance. Jeffrey Herf 22 Feb 2023 · 18 min read
A Mummy by Any Other Name A century after the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb, curators bent on ‘decolonizing’ history have become needlessly skittish about the M-word. Steven Tucker 16 Feb 2023 · 15 min read
‘Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad’—A Review It wasn’t lost on black soldiers that they were being called upon to liberate oppressed peoples overseas, even as they faced prejudice in the United States. Tim Cook 10 Feb 2023 · 9 min read
Colonialism and Its Discontents Oxford ethicist Nigel Biggar’s controversial reassessment of Britain’s imperial record has reignited an important academic quarrel over the meaning and legacy of empire. John Lloyd 6 Feb 2023 · 16 min read
America’s Forgotten Crisis A terrific new account of America’s social and political turmoil during the 1910s and ’20s provides some much-needed perspective on the problems afflicting the country today. Michael J. Totten 17 Dec 2022 · 14 min read
The Philadelphia Experiments How an enterprising doctor, an elite university, and negligent public officials turned a city prison system into the largest human research factory in America. Allen M. Hornblum 10 Dec 2022 · 26 min read
Fukuyama’s Victory Liberal democracy has again proved itself capable of overcoming its internal challenges and contradictions. Matt Johnson 7 Dec 2022 · 22 min read
Misremembering the Korean War The profound difference in quality of life on opposing sides of the 38th parallel today offers a rebuke to those who portray the US-led intervention in Korea as immoral or futile. Niranjan Shankar 29 Nov 2022 · 15 min read
How New Orleans Became a Hive of JFK Conspiracism Jim Garrison’s theory of the presidential assassination was based on false evidence and homophobic paranoia. Yet many still believe he was right. Michel Jacques Gagné 22 Nov 2022 · 15 min read
Ken Kesey and the Rush to Deinstitutionalization Whatever the literary strengths of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, the book has done much to harm both the mentally ill and their communities. Stephen Eide 14 Nov 2022 · 11 min read
Benito Mussolini and the Fascist Love Affair with Soccer Embracing a sport that combines nationalism, mass spectacle, and physical refinement, Il Duce set out to make Italy a World Cup champion. Luciano Wernicke 29 Oct 2022 · 8 min read
FDR and the Holocaust A widely praised new series by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, and Sarah Botstein distorts the historical record to rehabilitate a flawed US president. Ronald Radosh 27 Oct 2022 · 26 min read
In the Shadow of the Mushroom Cloud Biden, Putin, and the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. Robin Ashenden 25 Oct 2022 · 15 min read
A Strange and Brutal Country Adam Curtis’s new BBC series provides a unique insight into Russia’s late-twentieth-century collapse. Christopher J. Snowdon 24 Oct 2022 · 7 min read
