History
Google has a history problem
As much as we might wish that history had been different, virtue cannot grow from the soil of falsehood
Marshalling India’s maharajahs
Dethroned: The Downfall of India’s Princely States by John Zubrzycki
The Roman Republic is worth thinking about
The life and death of Tiberius Gracchus illustrate the virtues of populism
The misanthropic history man
Yuval Noah Harari has become an intellectual superstar, but his predictions have become wilder and sillier
How capitalism gave women leisure
Feminist anti-capitalists are spinning delusions about economic history
The best of The Rest Is …
Sequel podcasts are emerging with the inevitability of sprouts from an old potato
Profile: Salvador Allende
Lionised by the Left, the Chilean president refused to moderate his Marxist aims in the face of economic chaos
Prepare for takeoff
Masters of the Air is a visually impressive aerial WW2 adventure with the potential to go far
The end of Pevsner
The monumental work of maintaining a live record of the architecture of the UK and Ireland is in danger of being abandoned
They, Claudius
It is folly to project modish contemporary norms backwards