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Radicals Have Burned California Before
In the Golden State, good intentions have often paved the way to disaster.
February 5, 2025
Eli Lake
WATCH: Simon Sebag Montefiore says History Is Not Over
‘We’re coming out of what I would call the 75-year peace,’ argues the historian. ‘There’s never been a period like this in world history.’
February 4, 2025
Bari Weiss
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What Socrates Teaches Us About Love, Politics, and Death
Some struggles persist over millennia. The philosopher Agnes Callard explores the life and lessons of one of the greatest thinkers of all time.
February 2, 2025
Agnes Callard
Things Worth Remembering: T.S. Eliot Put His World Back Together Again
If America feels a sense of impending doom, the greatest poet of the twentieth century can help us put history in perspective.
October 27, 2024
Douglas Murray
How Republics Unravel: From Rome to. . . America?
A great state can fall apart when the rule-breaking of one man inspires his enemies to break the rules, too.
September 26, 2024
Eli Lake
Is This Mysterious Text the Most Ancient Hebrew Book Ever Discovered?
Found in a cave in Afghanistan, the parchment dates to between 660 and 780 CE. Soon, it will be on display at the Museum of the Bible.
September 12, 2024
Matti Friedman
Niall Ferguson: The Return of Anti-History
Podcasts are not reviving history, as is often claimed these days. They are mostly drowning it in a tidal wave of blather, at best sloppy, at worst…
September 5, 2024
Niall Ferguson
Bari Weiss: The War on Our History
We have an illiberal left that sympathizes with modern-day Nazis in the form of Hamas, and an illiberal right that sympathizes with the original ones.
September 5, 2024
Bari Weiss
Victor Davis Hanson: The Truth About World War II
Germany and its fascist allies started the war. They felt empowered to do so not because of supposed Allied aggression, but because of Western…
September 5, 2024
Victor Davis Hanson
Niall Ferguson: A Shot at the President—And the Turn of History
Assassinations have often changed the course of a country. Would that have happened if the shooter had slightly better aim?
July 14, 2024
Niall Ferguson
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