‘The Dawn of Everything’ and the Politics of Human Prehistory David Graeber and David Wengrow’s tendentious assault on the Enlightenment and its modern defenders is a bust. Dennis J. Junk 22 Oct 2022 · 22 min read
Reckon with This We cannot rethink history to console those it embarrasses. George Case 8 Oct 2022 · 9 min read
The U.S. and the Holocaust—A Review Ken Burns’s new six-hour documentary is a work of extraordinary synoptic power and intelligence. Thomas Doherty 21 Sep 2022 · 16 min read
Our Glorious Unhead of State The idea of an Australian republic is attractive to some, but there's a strong case for a humble head of state. Harry Lehmann 21 Sep 2022 · 4 min read
The Young Elizabeth, Seen Through a Child’s Eyes The diaries of Elizabeth’s wartime companion illustrates the special burdens faced by royalty—and Elizabeth’s fitness to bear them Barbara Kay 14 Sep 2022 · 13 min read
Never Apologize for Trying to Tell the Truth Those who repress inconvenient facts or produce fictitious evidence to nourish a politically convenient story are simply not historians. Jeffrey Herf 13 Sep 2022 · 8 min read
Malthusian Theory Has Always Been False A review of Superabundance: The Story of Population Growth, Innovation, and Human Flourishing on an Infinitely Bountiful Planet by Marian Tupy and Gale Pooley. (August 2022) Robert Zubrin 8 Sep 2022 · 8 min read
The Infantilization of Culture and History We should reject an unfalsifiable frame that can make anything and everything offensive or problematic, no matter how innocuous. Alan S. Rome 7 Sep 2022 · 9 min read
Indigenous Activists Are Targeting My Research. My Own University Is Helping Them Academics who study ancient Paleoindian populations are increasingly being denied access to skeletons, artifacts, and even old x-rays and research reports. We need to start fighting back Elizabeth Weiss 18 Aug 2022 · 10 min read
The Roads Not Taken A new book by Orlando Figes explores the role of Russian history in the Ukranian war. John Lloyd 12 Aug 2022 · 10 min read
Slavery and Steam The dangers of forfeiting societal sustainability. David Foster 21 Jul 2022 · 7 min read
The Classically Greek Roots of Civilizational Self-Doubt The Greeks were the first of all peoples to look at themselves in the mirror. Benedict Beckeld 13 Jul 2022 · 10 min read
Troubadour at War Leonard Cohen’s visit to Israel in its darkest hour. Ari David Blaff 7 Jul 2022 · 8 min read
