The Warmonger
Stalin saw an advantage in the renewal of global hostilities, so he helped facilitate them.
History
The Pastness of the Past
For Gordon Wood, no era has a monopoly on truth. Truth is merely the epiphenomenon of the era that produced it.
Bleak Nation
Our colonial past was not beautiful, but it was also not more destructive than many other pasts.
Arming the People Against Revolution
Origins of the Spanish Civil War.
Property in Man
Rothman contends that the slave trade was integral to American capitalism, yet does not even try to prove it.
On the Campaign Trail
From Kennedy to Trump.
Rule, Britannia!
Gilley’s portrait of Sir Alan Burns is the best defense of empire a reader could ask for.
King or Tyrant?
Contrary to the caricatures of King George III in American popular culture, he was neither ignorant nor tyrannical.
Imperious Historians
Time’s Monster claims that historians have been “the key architects of empire,” a belief embraced by the street-renaming and statue-toppling social movement.
Plutarch Without Parallel
The ancient world’s first man of letters.
Angelo Maria Codevilla (1943–2021)
In memory of our beloved colleague, Angelo Codevilla.
Dizzoner
Bill de Blasio’s uninspiring eight years as mayor of New York City.