History
History wars roll on
In Britain, contentious historical issues receive attention to an unprecedented degree
Keep buggering on
We could do worse than adopt the twin maxims of the western world’s two wartime leaders
Stephen Cohen: historian, polemicist and friend of Gorbachev
Cohen was a prophet of America’s decline
Hail to the Chief (Part IV)
Graham Stewart talks to Jeremy Black about how the power of the US president has been exercised since the Second World War.
The dictionary of the demagogues
In the dictionary of the demagogues there is only a single word: obey
Goodbye to the Gorgoneion
Can we invent myths or are they what make us what we are?
Past imperfectionists
The extremism of the project against our traditional idea of the museum is on full display at the Pitt Rivers
Why didn’t Greece slide towards the far right?
Greece survived the world’s worst post-2008 economic crisis and the heaviest refugee burden without yielding to far-right populism. Why?
American Xanadu: an appreciative history of Mar-a-Lago
Les Standiford’s book situates Mar-a-Lago’s surreal qualities in the larger history of Palm Beach
The day the dictators met
Thankfully, the two fascist leaders’ meeting at Hendaye remains nothing more than a footnote in history