The Long Road to Aquitaine
In the fifth instalment of ‘The So-Called Dark Ages,’ Herbert Bushman describes the conclusion to the Visigoths’ four-decade quest for a permanent homeland.
Herbert Bushman
· 13 min read
History
A collection of 443 posts
The Deadly Logic of Decolonization
Western countries are seen as colonizing nations and imperialists, while foreign autocracies and sectarian extremists like Hamas are perceived as freedom fighters and even forces for good.
Jay Sophalkalyan
· 11 min read
The Great Napoleonic Novel
“It’s a sin to want to die for a nation.”
Josh Allan
· 8 min read
Anti-Enlightenment Thinking, Past and Present
The Enlightenment was as remarkable as it was unexpected, but it led directly to the benefits we enjoy today.
Adam Wakeling
· 9 min read
United Against the Iroquois
In the fourteenth instalment of his series on the history of Canada, Greg Koabel describes Champlain’s military alliance with France’s new Innu, Algonquin, and Wendat trading partners.
Greg Koabel
· 24 min read
A Roman Trauma
In the fourth instalment of ‘The So-Called Dark Ages,’ podcaster Herbert Bushman describes the Visigothic sack of Rome in 410 C.E.
Herbert Bushman
· 17 min read
Champlain Goes to War
In the thirteenth instalment of our series on the history of Canada, Greg Koabel describes the crucial battlefield alliance that French explorers forged with Indigenous allies in 1609.
Greg Koabel
· 26 min read
Columbus Day: A Fraught Celebration
The world is better than it would have been had we remained isolated from each other—even for Native Americans.
Christopher J. Ferguson
· 7 min read
The Communication Revolution
Like the first iPhone, Gutenberg’s Bible opened up avenues of development that entrepreneurs have been exploiting ever since.
James Hannam
· 10 min read
Champlain Gives It Another Go
In the twelfth instalment of an ongoing Quillette series on the history of Canada, Greg Koabel describes France’s halting efforts to create a permanent Canadian settlement in the early 1600s.
Greg Koabel
· 30 min read
Huns to the North. Romans to the South
In the second instalment of ‘The So-Called Dark Ages,’ podcaster Herbert Bushman describes the events that sparked the fateful Gothic invasion of the Roman Empire.
Herbert Bushman
· 25 min read
History Matters
A restoration of history, in all its complexity, is critical to escaping the polarized, rigid, and often insane political environment we now inhabit.
Joel Kotkin
· 16 min read
A Cartographer for the Ages
In the eleventh instalment of his series on the history of Canada, Greg Koabel describes how Samuel de Champlain fundamentally redirected France’s transatlantic colonial project
Greg Koabel
· 22 min read
Israel’s Everywoman at War
Helen Mirren’s Golda Meir offers a profile of greatness in the face of overwhelming adversity.
Michael Oren
· 16 min read
Our Lost Classical Learning
The Western canon was not an unchanging set of texts, but an ongoing conversation that lasted thousands of years—enabling each generation to build on the intellectual heritage of the past.
Brian Kaller
· 7 min read