Category: History and Historiography

America’s Concentration Camps

Sponsored by Poetry Foundation In the Review’s April 24 issue, Francisco Cantú writes about the aftermath of Franklin Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066, which authorized the indefinite detention of more than 125,000 Japanese immigrants and Japanese American citizens, who were “thrust into an existing infrastructure of immigrant detention. Many ended […]

Communism and industrial imperialism

Posted on March 31, 2025 by winter oak by Paul Cudenec I have written before about how the “communist” revolution in the USSR was a scheme cooked up by the global criminocrats to impose on the Russian people their long-term authoritarian-industrial agenda of dispossession and enslavement. [1] One […]

History in Open Air

Sponsored by Classical Pursuits Since the end of the last century, Nell Irvin Painter writes in her essay “‘This Land Is Yours,’” published in our March 27 issue, historians of many different American regions have shown in their work that “places assumed to be only and always White were not.” […]

Out Now: ‘Shattered Yugoslavia’

Arktos Journal Mar 29, 2025 NEW GRAPHIC NOVEL FROM ARKTOS Project Rybar — Shattered Yugoslavia: The Crucified Country The NATO campaign against Yugoslavia in 1999 became the Alliance’s first large-scale military operation in history. Under the pretext of “protecting the defenseless” — Kosovar Albanians living on historically Serbian […]

European Apostasy

Arktos Journal Mar 27, 2025 NEW RELEASE FROM ARKTOS Pawel Bielawski — European Apostasy: The Role of Religion in the European New Right Pawel Bielawski is both a specialist in the history of religion and a highly knowledgeable authority on the so-called ‘New Right’. In his book, he […]

Denazification

Sponsored by The Friend Christian Caryl How Germany Remade Itself A close look at the postwar history of Germany suggests that its progress toward democracy has not always been as stable or straightforward as modern-day observers might assume.   Brenda Wineapple Peaceable Revolutions In her history of American […]

To Suicide or Sydney

The quiet erasure of the Irish, from Cromwell to the modern state. Twilight of the Gael Mar 24, 2025 “I think I’m the only one out of my school class that hasn’t moved to Australia or killed themselves.” A friend told me that the other day, and I […]

The Cloud

March 21, 2025 The Cloud Greg Johnson There’s a cloud[1] over nationalism. As soon as you say that nations should put their own citizens and interests first, people immediately raise the specter of wars and genocides. Since the Second World War, National Socialism and the Holocaust are always […]

Christianity’s Original Sins

Sponsored by the Lionel Gelber Prize and the Munk School Miri Rubin Christian Hair The historical claim that Christianity replaced Judaism as a superior faith resulted in laws and language that persecuted Jews—and laid a foundation for white supremacy, too, a new book argues. Howard W. French Toffler in […]

In Deep Manure

Sponsored by the University of Chicago Press Our April 10 issue is now online, with Michael Gorra on the majesty of Caspar David Friedrich, Cathleen Schine on Hanif Kureishi, Wendy Doniger on letting slip the horses of war, Adam Thirlwell on Lars von Trier, Christian Caryl on denazification, Miri Rubin […]

The Acorn – 101

In this issue: Rising to our feet The Owners and Controllers of Global Financial Capital Donald Trump and the Global Mafia Dreaming of an ancient peace Frantz Fanon: an organic radical inspiration Acorninfo 1. Rising to our feet by Paul Cudenec How does it make you feel to […]

Far from Heaven

A dispatch from our Art Editor, Leanne Shapton, on the art and illustrations in the Review’s March 13 and March 27 issues. This newsletter comes to you while I’m watching Thunder on the Hill, part of the “Douglas Sirk Noir” series currently streaming on the Criterion Channel. A […]

A tankie primer

We’re reclaiming the word. Here’s what it means now. The Anti Empire Project Dec 27, 2024 The word “tankie” was coined by British Trotskyists for use against leftists who did not oppose the USSR intervention in Hungary in 1956 and resurrected after 2011 by pro-regime change leftists who […]

Racial Thought in Irish Nationalism

How did Irish nationalists historically conceive of Irish identity? Keith Woods Jun 22, 2024 Recently, Micheál Martin, the Irish Tánaiste and leader of Fianna Fáil, uploaded a speech delivered to the Dáil on his conception of Irish nationalism. Martin wrote that: The people who fought for and founded […]

The German Peasants’ War

Or: The Battle for the ‘Common Man’ Katja Hoyer Mar 16, 2025 This weekend, many places in Germany celebrate an event that happened half a millennium ago. In 1525, representatives of various rebellious peasant groups adopted a set of written articles that would go down as a milestone […]

Bessie Coleman (1892 – 1926)

Bessie Coleman (1892 – 1926) Because American had to America, she had to study for her pilot’s license abroad. While in in France, she first African-American woman and first Native American to hold a pilot license,is the to obtain international pilot’s license and doing so made her American […]

Why Norman Finkelstein’s Parents Hated Germans and Poles

Full Episode:    • Norman Finkelstein: Donald J. Trump, …   Main Channel:    / @robinsonerhardt   Robinson’s Podcast #244 – Norman Finkelstein: Donald J. Trump, Mossad Conspiracies in Israel, and the Dying Left Norman Finkelstein received his PhD from the Princeton University Politics Department, and is best known for his research on Israel and Palestine. In this episode, […]

Histories of Native Nations

Sponsored by the University of Toronto Press Nicole Eustace An Expanding Vision of America Major new books about the peoples who lived in North America for millennia before the arrival of Europeans are reshaping the history of the continent. Joshua Craze USAID: Goodbye to All That? By gutting USAID, […]

The Work of Socialism in One Country

The Work of Socialism in One Country Ber Borochov’s theory of localized self-determination and class solidarity could address dilemmas that have baffled the Left Oliver Bateman Does the Work Mar 11, 2025 The work of Ber Borochov Ber Borochov (1881–1917) was a leading thinker among fin-de-siècle socialist Zionists. […]

Zionism: the bigger picture

Posted on March 12, 2025 by winter oak by Paul Cudenec As I have been explaining for some time now, our contemporary world is in the grip of a Rothschild-dominated criminocracy, which I have termed the Zionist single global mafia. Some readers have questioned, however, whether “Zionist” is […]

This thing will fail

rump will not restore the “strong gods” of community, family, and faith. Noah Smith Mar 08, 2025 Photo by Jean-noël Lafargue via Wikimedia Commons “Men don’t care what’s on TV. They only care what else is on TV.” — Jerry Seinfeld N.S. Lyons is a popular essayist in […]

Round-Table #123: Towards a New American Consciousness

On February 27, I streamed “Towards A New American Consciousness:” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPTm5…, today I will be joined by Keith Preston and Florian to discuss it. My Contact Info: Locals: https://praiseoffolly.locals.com/ X: https://twitter.com/PoFPodcast Telegram: t.me/PraiseOfFolly_1511 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PraiseOfFoll… BuyMeACoffe: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/PraiseOf… Subscribe Star: https://www.subscribestar.com/PraiseO… Substack: https://substack.com/profile/40985862… Email: tertullian155@protonmail.com Co-host Contact Info: Keith […]

Sally Rooney on Snooker

Our March 27 issue is now online, with Neal Ascherson on everyday Nazis, Laura Marsh on the attention deficit, Martin Filler on British buildings, Ben Tarnoff on the future of AI, Jed Perl on Arlene Croce, Nicole Eustace on America before the Europeans, Jacob Weisberg on Reagan’s dreamworld, Catherine […]