A collection of 443 posts
In the 16th instalment of ‘Nations of Canada,’ historian Greg Koabel describes how Samuel de Champlain overcame a decade of frustration by finally establishing a successful French fur-trading monopoly.
Progressive anti-Zionism and the poisonous legacy of Cold War hatred.
In his latest novel, Tom Piazza imagines the finest meeting of American minds never to have happened.
In a new book, Rachel Chrastil artfully illuminates the history of the 1870 Franco-Prussian War, in all its senseless horror.
Death, DNA, and the culture wars.
Christmas offers a chance to remind ourselves of the intellectual debt that our editors and writers owe to the Christian tradition.
In the sixth instalment of ‘The So-Called Dark Ages,’ Herbert Bushman describes the rise of the Huns, who struck terror into the hearts of Goths and Romans alike.
In its cold materialist outlook, Realism fails to recognize that every nation has a unique set of interests shaped by its own history, geography, and beliefs.
In the fifteenth instalment of his series on the history of Canada, Greg Koabel describes Henry Hudson’s tragic 1610-11 voyage to the saltwater bay that now bears his name.
Henry Kissinger’s policies influenced Cambodia’s fate, but they alone did not cause the rise of the Khmer Rouge.
A short history of phoney peace groups and their fellow travellers.
The French emperor and military commander played a pivotal role in an epochal transformation.
For much of its history, Gaza moved people, things, and ideas by land and sea, and its name was associated with geographic interconnectedness.
The accusation is wrong on the facts and objectively serves to support the intent of Hamas to murder Jews with impunity.
An interview with Peter Sarris, author of ‘Justinian: Emperor, Soldier, Saint'