Category: History and Historiography

The Lures of Antiquity

Sponsored by HarperCollins When Pope Innocent II decided to remodel the venerable church of Santa Maria in Trastevere in 1140, he borrowed from the monuments of ancient Rome with deliberate and spectacular intent. For him, these tangible traces of another era were charged with meaning, majesty, and beauty, telling […]

The Gay McCarthyites

By Cheryl Bates ONE OF THE LOW POINTS in American history was in the early 1950’s when Senator Joseph McCarthy successfully fueled and exploited Americans’ fear and paranoia about secret governmental conspiracies, launching witch hunts to expose allegedly subversive infiltrators and Communists within the U.S. government. A lesser […]

Party Like It’s 1907

The Corbett Report 2 hr ago Interview of James Corbett by Graham Smith bitcoin.com April 2, 2023 I know you’re all patiently waiting for the conclusion of my Dissent Into Madness series . . . . . . but you’re going to have to keep waiting another week. […]

How the Deep State Took Down Nixon

Nathan Pinkoski April 6, 2023 Photo: AP In conventional histories, Richard Nixon’s impeachment is remembered as a triumph of good government. Nixon is viewed as a corrupt politician whose unconstitutional schemes threatened the republic, while his opponents are seen as defenders of the Constitution. This narrative, written by […]

The Icelandic Free State

The Icelandic Free State In this episode we explore the offices and institutions which made up the Icelandic Free State. Through comprehensive legal codes, accepted traditions and customs and regular, predictable assembly the Icelanders were able to govern themselves for over three centuries without a king, head chieftain […]

Newly Digitized Bibliography of Abbie Hoffman

Quick reply   Thu, 03/09/2023 – 14:04 #1 Ishkah Newly Digitized Bibliography of Abbie Hoffman Index Digitalized Zines Books Essays Speeches Music In Full Books (in chronological order) Articles, Poems, Talks, and Letters (in chronological order) Unpublished Manuscripts (in approximate chronological order) Digitalized Zines Fuck the System – […]

The Scottish National Party & The Nazis

We examine the true extent of SNP ties with Nazi Germany during WWII. Dr. Mark Felton FRHistS, FRSA, is a well-known British historian, the author of 22 non-fiction books, including bestsellers ‘Zero Night’ and ‘Castle of the Eagles’, both currently being developed into movies in Hollywood. In addition […]

Madame Mao’s Nietzschean Revolution

Mao’s wife Jiang Qing helped lead the Cultural Revolution with a Nietzschean philosophy of art. Through revolutionary operas and ballets, she sought a heroic consciousness to could transform society. Whether it comes in the form of a musical composition, a ballet, or a violent revolution, a great work […]

Waco, 30 Years Later

TUESDAY, MARCH 21, 2023 It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one. – Voltaire, Zadig [1747] HORNBERGER’S BLOG March 21, 2023 The Prescience of FFF’s 2022 Monetary Conference Little did we know when we held our online conference last fall how prescient […]

America is the New Rome

I think one part of history that gets lost when talking about the fall of Rome are the emperors who fought to save and preserve Rome, even in her final days. Gallienus, Aurelian, and Majorian are the standouts in terms of fighting to save Rome. The odds were […]

Analyzing FDR’s New Deal

by Jay Lino Mar 10 The New Deal was a series of programs, public works projects, financial reforms, and regulations enacted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the United States between 1933 and 1936, with the goal of combating the effects of the Great Depression. The New Deal […]

Killing Communists with Impunity

FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 2023 I’d rather that England should be free than that England should be compulsorily sober. With freedom we might in the end attain sobriety, but in the other alternative we should eventually lose both freedom and sobriety. – W.C. Magee, Archbishop of York, Sermon to […]

The Revolution and the Border

Sponsored by Reaktion Books   Francisco Cantú An American Story Kelly Lytle Hernández’s latest book chronicles the tumultuous period leading up to the Mexican Revolution, casting the border as ground zero for continental change. Liza Batkin Men Explain Abortion Drugs to the FDA In a Texas lawsuit, Christian medical […]

How we forgot about Pol Pot

By Sean Thomas The Spectator 4 March 2023, 6:30am Stupa for deposited skulls and bones from the days of the Khmer Rouge (photo: Alamy) When I was a small boy, I had a favourite book: The Magic Faraway Tree, by Enid Blyton. Given that my own family life not […]

International Finance

The Jews don’t have a monopoly on International Finance. They became moneylenders in ancient times because both Christians and Muslims forbade usury, but today, people of all races and religions are involved. The main financiers are the banks. The world’s largest bank is the Industrial and Commercial Bank […]

Mussolini’s Daughter

Sponsored by California State University, Northridge Our March 23 issue is online now, with Jenny Uglow on Mussolini’s daughter, Andrew O’Hagan on the libidinal HBO, Charles Glass on devastation and resignation in Syria, Ruth Bernard Yeazell on Frans Hals’s jolly portraits and money troubles, Francisco Cantú on the Mexican […]