A very good video lecture by TIK introducing the philosophy of history: * How did history develop as a discipline? * What are historical facts? What does truth mean for historians? * Can history be objective? * Is history more an art or a science? * What explains the contemporary attacks on history by postmodern […]
“History Theory: What is History? No seriously, what is it?” Read More »
A new episode of my podcast series, produced by Possibly Correct out of Toronto. Conservative nationalist Yoram Hazony makes eight claims about the Enlightenment. One is mostly true, and seven are badly false or are grains of truth badly exaggerated. Audio: Youtube. Soundcloud. Transcription: Will be available soon. Sources: Yoram Hazony, “What Was the Enlightenment?” Prager
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Two key excerpts from a 2019 European Parliament resolution, 80 years after the start of WW II: “B. whereas 80 years ago on 23 August 1939, the communist Soviet Union and Nazi Germany signed a Treaty of Non-Aggression, known as the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, and its secret protocols, dividing Europe and the territories of independent states
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I’m happy to see this review online now. Bronowski was one of my heroes when young, and Sandefur has written a first-rate biography.
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I am in Las Vegas today and looking forward to participating in this three-way panel discussion and debate: It was the notion of “Manifest Destiny” that led to the very existence of the Wild West in America’s history. Inherent was the idea that expansion into the American west by settlers was not only inevitable but
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A new episode of my podcast series, produced by Possibly Correct out of Toronto. Audio: iTunes Stitcher YouTube Topics and times: The decline of slavery as a moral achievement // History: Slavery practiced everywhere before modernity // The internal African slave society and trades // The Atlantic trade and where the slaves went // Early
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Hollywood screenwriter Anna Louise Strong was basically a Communist propagandist. When in 1956 Khrushchev “revealed” Stalin’s crimes, Strong suffered a mental breakdown over the “betrayal.” Later she confessed: “We knew all these things for twenty-five years, and I kept silent for the cause of socialism. What am I supposed to say?” (Which I connect to
On honesty, Stalin’s killings, and Western intellectuals (anecdote) Read More »
Dr. Bella d’Abrera will be the MC for two of my Adventures in Postmodernism Tour events. Here is a recent piece she published on the state of history (mis-)education in Australia: Three Years in an Aussie Re-education Camp. Dr. d’Abrera attended Cambridge University and writes about postmodernism in Australian media and appears on major news
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