Category: History and Historiography

What Happened in Vegas

Jake Nevins Imperial Era The National Football League’s embrace of gambling, Taylor Swift, Nickelodeon subscribers, data analysts, beer enthusiasts, international sports markets, and ever more corporate sponsors helped the Super Bowl fit right in to Las Vegas. Dennis Zhou Filming and Forgetting Taipei Edward Yang’s films approach Taiwan’s […]

Bismarck and the German Revolution

by Karl Richter Arktos Journal Feb 23, 2024 Karl Richter examines the legacy of the German Reich and Bismarck’s influence, highlighting the historical significance and current threats to Germany’s heritage. Today, January 18, the day of the founding of the Reich 153 years ago, would provide an occasion […]

Kaboom!

Sponsored by Yale University Press Tim Flannery Ready to Rumble A new book by the volcanologist Clive Oppenheimer details the gifts and destruction brought by volcanoes, and the sublimity and terror experienced in their presence. Lynn Hunt A New Force Set Loose A new history of pre-1789 France […]

The Philosophy of Italian Fascism

Arktos Journal Feb 19, 2024 AVAILABLE NOW FROM ARKTOS The Philosophy of Italian Fascism: Formation & Evolution, by Dmitry Moiseev Italian Fascism: its era has passed, yet its intellectual underpinnings remain a subject of intense scholarly debate. In his groundbreaking monograph, Russian scholar Dmitry Moiseev delves into the […]

The Many Lives of George Eliot

Beyond the Marriage Plot George Eliot’s novels were ruthless and precise dissections of the 19th-century marriage plot, exposing, Francesca Wade writes, the “harsh disparities between societal expectations of married life and their own, often painful experiences of it.” Reviewing a new biography of the English novelist, Clare Carlisle’s […]

Revolution for World’s End

Sietze Bosman Feb 4, 2024 Sietze Bosman sheds light on the continuity of dark, occult forces driving revolutions from the past into the present, revealing a sinister strategy of manipulation by those in power. The French Revolution of 1789 showed us a blueprint of the machinations of revolution, […]

The Last Days of Phil Ochs

Phil Ochs, the humanist troubadour who had a special incisiveness and edge to his creations, was a vital creative voice of the protest era and one of my artistic heroes. He fell into depression and ultimately suicide in the 1970s, in part from an inherited condition, mixed with […]

The Latifundia

Christopher Jolliffe Feb 1, 2024 Christopher Jolliffe compares the political and societal chaos during the decline of the Roman Republic with today’s world, highlighting the rise of populism amid collapsing traditional structures. One of the more colourful figures of the late Roman Republic was Publius Clodius Pulcher, a […]

Forward to the New Middle Ages!

by Alexander Dugin Arktos Journal Jan 29, 2024 Alexander Dugin advocates a major societal shift: the resettlement from large cities back to the countryside, emphasising the revival of traditional family values and a rural lifestyle as critical responses to the ills of modernity. In Russia, the year 2024 […]

Menses Matters

Laura Kolbe Month to Month What we as a society prefer not to know about periods extends beyond menstruation itself to its management and the management of women’s health more broadly. Christine Smallwood Time Unregained In La Captive, Chantal Akerman’s adaptation of Marcel Proust’s La Prisonnière, she offers us a […]

Introducing “American Prestige” and “Tech Won’t Save Us”

Introducing American Prestige and Tech Won’t Save Us Two popular podcasts join our existing roster of provocative news programming devoted to providing unconventional perspectives that challenge authority, question the status quo. We are proud to announce The Nation will be adding two new weekly programs to our ever-expanding roster of regular podcasts: American Prestige and Tech […]

Europe in Their Eyes

by Andrej Sekulović Arktos Journal Jan 16, 2024 Andrej Sekulović explores the profound connection between our ancestors and ourselves through the metaphor of eyes, suggesting that in them we see the legacy of our past, the soul of our civilization, and the promise of our future. It has […]

New Money

Lauren Kane New Money In the new economy of the late Middle Ages, an emergent merchant class was forced into both a social and spiritual reckoning. Katie Trumpener A Eulogy of Failed Remembrance Alexander Kluge’s account of the Allied air raid on his hometown in Germany, while suffering […]

A Bemoaning to Fiume

Here we stand Rachel Haywire Jan 4, 2024 Fiume hasn’t been the same The purity was sacrificed As we divided on the wrong terms For the goods of the tests of the games Fiume has sure changed a lot So you can have this last museum Burning galleries […]

Steven Pinker vs John Mearsheimer debate the enlightenment | Part 1 & 2 of FULL DEBATE

#JohnMearsheimer #TheEnlightenment #StevenPinker John Mearsheimer and Steven Pinker go head to head on Enlightement ideals. Watch the full debate at https://iai.tv/video/the-enlightenmen… The Enlightenment advocated reason, science, democracy, and universal human rights as a grounding for human morality and social organization. In the quarter millennium since, to what extent […]

On the Death of Henry Kissinger

James C. Wilson | Support this author on Patreon | December 7th, 2023 “Once you’ve been to Cambodia, you’ll never stop wanting to beat Henry Kissinger to death with your bare hands” –Anthony Bourdain On November 29th, 2023, Henry Kissinger died at the age of 100. The internet […]