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Stop Overthinking ‘The Odyssey’
Plus: That viral raccoon in Seattle. The ‘blessed drudgery’ of motherhood. And more!
Suzy Weiss
History Was Sentenced to Death in My City. It Survived.
My home of Mosul, in northern Iraq, survived the most complete anti-history project of the 21st century. It is immensely premature to say we are now…
Omar Mohammed
Is History Dead?
Victor Davis Hanson, Ben Shapiro, Deborah Lipstadt, and others respond to Niall Ferguson and John-Clark Levin’s claim that AI, social media, and…
The Editors
Bernard-Henri Lévy: History Is Not Dead. It Is Under Attack.
Niall Ferguson and John-Clark Levin’s recent essay argued that Holocaust denial and antisemitism have brought history to the brink of defeat. They’re…
Bernard-Henri Lévy
Inside the Golden Age of Porn
Allie Rowbottom explores the lives of the women who became icons of 1980s Los Angeles’s adult film industry.
Suzy Weiss
52M
This Week in American History: How to Say Goodbye to a King
Our weekly history missive comes to an end 250 years to the week that a statue of King George III met its end in New York City.
Jonathan Horn
Great Americans: Niall Ferguson on Henry Kissinger’s Very American Life
In what other country could a penniless Jewish refugee become the secretary of state?
Niall Ferguson
The American Revolution Was a World War, with Richard Bell
The forgotten global campaign behind American independence.
Aaron MacLean
46M
Nikki Haley: We Are Blessed to Live in America
When I read the speech Calvin Coolidge gave on America’s 150th birthday, I hear the same truth my parents brought with them from India: We are so very…
Nikki Haley
Neil Gorsuch: The Heroes of 1776
A Supreme Court justice remembers the signers, soldiers, farmers, fifers, spies, and messengers who made the American Revolution—and reflects on our…
Neil Gorsuch and Janie Nitze
This Week in American History: The Man Who Argued Against Independence
Two hundred fifty years ago this week, John Dickinson made the best case against independence. Then he led troops to defend it.
Jonathan Horn
Great Americans: The Man Who Put Evil on Trial
Robert H. Jackson grew up pitching hay in upstate New York and became the most morally serious jurist America has ever produced. Today, the America that…
Matthew Walther
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