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
Are we suffering from generational sink?
How can the young find meaning and coherence in the future?
February letters
Questioning Cameron, cautioning Houellebecq and disputing the image of God
The female body is the new short skirt
What is being done to some female bodies is changing what all female bodies mean
The broad influence of Aquinas
His influence has been felt in economics as well as philosophy and religion
Against stakeholderism
How ideas like “citizens’ assemblies” threaten democracy and effective policy-making
Bumps in the road
British roads, like Britain itself, need a lot of maintenance work
NatCon lives on
The conference has gone ahead in Brussels despite protests and police action
Who judges the judges?
Judges, whatever their gender, need sufficient judgement to maintain neutrality and political impartiality
The meaningless models of “public health”
Another brick in the “public health” fortress of unreality