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Things Worth Remembering: T.S. Eliot Put His World Back Together Again
If America feels a sense of impending doom, the greatest poet of the twentieth century can help us put history in perspective.
Douglas Murray
How Republics Unravel: From Rome to. . . America?
A great state can fall apart when the rule-breaking of one man inspires his enemies to break the rules, too.
Eli Lake
Is This Mysterious Text the Most Ancient Hebrew Book Ever Discovered?
Found in a cave in Afghanistan, the parchment dates to between 660 and 780 CE. Soon, it will be on display at the Museum of the Bible.
Matti Friedman
Niall Ferguson: The Return of Anti-History
Podcasts are not reviving history, as is often claimed these days. They are mostly drowning it in a tidal wave of blather, at best sloppy, at worst…
Niall Ferguson
Bari Weiss: The War on Our History
We have an illiberal left that sympathizes with modern-day Nazis in the form of Hamas, and an illiberal right that sympathizes with the original ones.
Bari Weiss
Victor Davis Hanson: The Truth About World War II
Germany and its fascist allies started the war. They felt empowered to do so not because of supposed Allied aggression, but because of Western…
Victor Davis Hanson
Niall Ferguson: A Shot at the President—And the Turn of History
Assassinations have often changed the course of a country. Would that have happened if the shooter had slightly better aim?
Niall Ferguson
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