Category: History and Historiography

Tom DiLorenzo on “Virtuous” War Crimes – The American and Israeli Traditions (PFS Bodrum 2025)

21 September, 2025 Sebastian Wang Tom DiLorenzo on “Virtuous” War Crimes – The American and Israeli Traditions (PFS Bodrum 2025) Property and Freedom Society, Bodrum 2025 Tom DiLorenzo on “Virtuous” War Crimes: The American and Israeli Traditions Reported by Sebastian Wang This was a characteristically incendiary address. Tom […]

The Faded Republic

Posted on September 15, 2025 by winter oak by W.D. James I’m obviously an American, so I ought to at least know what that is, right? Yet it’s a question I’ve struggled to come to adequate terms with for a very long time. Americans, and America itself, have […]

The Roots of Civilisation

by Alain de Benoist Arktos Journal Sep 13, 2025 Alain de Benoist draws attention to the depth and continuity of civilisation in Europe, presenting the groundbreaking discoveries of Alexander Marshack to trace the heritage of European art back to the Stone Age and highlight the prehistoric roots of […]

Speaking of WWII …

Recently: A dictators’ parade as personal betrayal for the U.S. president. Open corruption topples a strongman. &c. | The member’s despatch, Week XXXVI. Today: U.S. federal agents flood Chicago. Russian drones strike Kyiv harder than ever. The Murdoch family resolves succession planning for its media empire through 2050. […]

The Crypto-Trumpist

In the Review’s September 25 issue, Mark Lilla and Osita Nwanevu each review Sam Tanenhaus’s new biography of National Review founder, sailing enthusiast, political gadfly, and conservative firebrand William F. Buckley. As Nwanevu writes, “the stakes of Buckley—a book that was about three decades in the making and […]

This Summer I Went Swimming

Today in The New York Review of Books: Daphne Merkin reflects on the bliss and blues of life by the pool, and, from the archives, remembering the birth of Poland’s Solidarity movement, forty-five years ago today. Daphne Merkin Poolside On a broiling summer afternoon I am lying on a chaise, daydreaming about past lovers […]

The Many Lives of Mark Twain

WEB VERSION August 11, 2025 The Adventures of Samuel Clemens Mark Twain lived half a dozen lives—between poverty and prosperity, fame and obscurity. By the end of this life, though, he was a thing rare even today: a world-famous celebrity who hobnobbed with world leaders (the tsar of […]

The Founding Slavers

David S. Reynolds The Contradictory Revolution Historians have long grappled with “the American Paradox” of American Revolutionary leaders who fought for their own liberty while denying it to enslaved Black people. Walter M. Shaub Jr. Weaponizing the Watchdog By choosing an unqualified far-right appointee to lead a federal […]

Why Switzerland Works and Russia Fails

By Aleksey Bashtavenko Academic Composition Russia and Switzerland could not be more different—not just in their governance structures, but in the fundamental political philosophies that animate their societies. These two nations represent opposing poles on the spectrum of political evolution: Russia stands as the embodiment of Hobbesian centralism […]

Is China Still China?, Red Marxism vs. Green Marxism, Are “Heritage Americans” Real?, The UK is Losing Legitimacy in England, Postcards From 1920’s Palermo, Sicily

Niccolo Soldo Jul 27, 2025 Every weekend (almost) I share five articles/essays/reports with you. I select these over the course of the week because they are either insightful, informative, interesting, important, or a combination of the above. Share It’s an article of faith for today’s Marxists that capitalism […]

Imperial March (Reprise)

Gabriel Winslow-Yost The Revolution Will Not Be Star Wars What Andor depicts most clearly is what its kind of storytelling can’t say. Tariq Mir Kashmir: Death and the River “The cease-fire [between India and Pakistan] has held so far, but peace may well be elusive. Water will be one of […]

Where’s My Roy Cohn?

Trump family mob ties and Roy Cohn at 1:02. Where’s My Roy Cohn? unearths the origins of a master manipulator’s ascent, revealing how an enigmatic and disturbed man shaped our current political world. This shocking film exposes Cohn’s malign influence and contextualizes him as a modern Machiavelli, tracing […]

Air War Vietnam 1945-1975

Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more Anarchonomicon Podcast Ep 15 Air War Vietnam 1945-19… 0:00 4:49:19 Listen now Ep 15 Air War Vietnam 1945-1975 w/Goppy Kulak Jul 8 READ IN APP BY POPULAR DEMAND!!! An Epic length deep dive on one of the most decisive shifts in […]