Stanley G. Payne
Stanley G. Payne is an emeritus professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His most recent books in English are Civil War in Europe, 1905-1949 (2011) and The Spanish Civil War (2012), both published by Cambridge.
Digging up Franco, burying history
The resurgent Spanish left wants to exhume the former dictator’s remains and even outlaw any favourable mention of his legacy
Donald Trump doesn’t know what a woman is, either
Believing that the sexes are different does not mean appreciating their humanity in full
Conservatives can no longer trust institutions
Institutions are only as effective as the people within them and the culture beyond them
A tumultuous decade of ingenious novelties
Did the English Revolution go full circle, replacing one overmighty king with another?
Office politics
There’s the joker, the slacker, and the bloke who just got fired
Life amid the ruins
Any captured, destroyed city, offers the same problems for the new owners
The end of art critics
The critics who are now lackeys of the art world
The monumental cradles of democracy
Squeezed into a single large volume, readers can now find a remarkable account of the Greek city
Do our leaders understand the power grid at all?
It seems as if basic facts are being completely ignored
The grand Budapest hotel
The Hungarian Prime Minister’s office gives Orbán the space to think
Shiva Naipaul
The younger brother of a controversial Nobel Prize winner who has been unjustly overlooked