Africa and the History of Civilisation
The history of Africa isn’t the history of the ‘black race,’ but a vital part of the history of human civilisation.
Ralph Leonard
· 11 min read
History
A collection of 448 posts
Making America British Again
The story of William Cobbett and the American Revolutionary culture wars.
David A. Wilson
· 13 min read
France’s Founding Fathers: A Review of ‘House of Lilies’
In a new book, Justine Firnhaber-Baker tells the story of the Capetian dynasty (987–1328), whose rulers stitched a set of medieval duchies and counties into a single kingdom.
Charlotte Allen
· 20 min read
Apocalypse Never
Contra the critics, the advent of nuclear weapons has made the world far safer.
Mike Coté
· 12 min read
George Orwell’s Error
Had he lived long enough to witness the fruits of liberal capitalism, perhaps Orwell would finally have accepted the failure of socialism.
Christopher J. Snowdon
· 13 min read
Springtime for Sinwar
Notes on the pro-Hamas Left and its antecedents.
Jeffrey Herf
· 21 min read
Bad History at the BBC
A new radio series about the 1943 Bengal famine favours culture-war polemic over rigorous scholarship.
Hira Jungkow
· 6 min read
Swastikas of Both Sorts: Hindu Nationalism's Fascist Nostalgia
Hindu nationalism is nostalgic for a golden age that never existed, before the invasions of first the Muslims and then the British.
Anwesh Satpathy
· 12 min read
Misadventures of a Stalinist Stooge
Benn Steil’s engrossing new biography of Henry A. Wallace is a timely cautionary tale and a masterpiece of 20th-century American history.
Ronald Radosh
· 23 min read
Erdogan’s Hypocrisy
While routinely declaring that Israel’s behaviour toward Hamas is genocidal, Erdogan has consistently denied the real genocides carried out by Turkey.
Benny Morris
· 9 min read
Johann Blumenbach: The First Race Scientist
The accepted view is that the scientists of the European Enlightenment got the issue of race badly wrong. In fact, some of them got more right than they are usually given credit for.
Coel Hellier
· 12 min read
Why Newly Independent Countries Must Reject Radical Decolonization
The contrasting histories of Singapore, Tanzania, and Sri Lanka demonstrate the dangers of attempting to erase the colonial past.
Jay Sophalkalyan
· 15 min read
Attila Invictus
In the eighth instalment of ‘The So-Called Dark Ages,’ Herbert Bushman describes the Huns’ increasingly violent incursions into the Eastern half of the Roman Empire.
Herbert Bushman
· 19 min read
In Defence of the EU
The European Union has been overwhelmingly successful in achieving its primary mission: guaranteeing peace.
James Graham
· 13 min read
Greeks and Jews: Two Diaspora Peoples
The histories of these two groups reveals the sinister implications of an ideology that holds that some people are more “natural” to a place than others.
Katherine Kelaidis
· 7 min read