Category: History and Historiography

Johann Most – Luther

Johann Most – Luther Last Monday, a very “dashing” Fatzkiade was performed in Wittenberg, a kind of Columberei in green. It was about the opening of the renovated castle church, on whose portal on October 31, 1517, Luther nailed his famous 95 theses, which are now engraved on […]

Getting Over Germanophobia

Hand-wringing over the emergence of nationalist tones in German politics is based on shoddy history. Paul Gottfried Feb 28, 2025 know I’ve been on this topic for more than 40 years and have published screeds on it in both English and German. Unfortunately, neoconservatives are not likely to […]

From Reform to Ruin in the USSR

The Soviet Collapse: A Tale of Botched Reform or Entrenched Bureaucracy? Jonathon P Sine Feb 02, 2025 “A nation so poorly prepared to act independently could not attempt total reform without total destruction. An absolute monarch would have been a less dangerous innovator.” – Alexis de Tocqueville “History […]

Phantom Borders

The past is never dead. It’s not even past Ed West Feb 26, 2025 Post-war Germany was perhaps the largest natural experiment into the relative effects of free market capitalism and socialism. Thirty years after the Berlin Wall fell, West Germans remain more liberal by most measures, but […]

The Marxist Roots of Classical Fascism

The Marxist Roots of Classical Fascism Understanding fascism requires looking at its original form, classical fascism, and the broader history of socialism.   Pre-Marxist Socialisms While modern socialism’s official beginnings are often traced to the Enlightenment and the French Revolution, earlier populist movements with religious ties… Read more […]

Restoration from Collapse

Troy Southgate Feb 14, 2025 WHEN you actually stop to consider the manner in which civilisation has sought to either constrict or divert the natural world by building dams and canals, felling trees, concreting over rivers, polluting the environment, constructing motorways across green land, using trawlers to depopulate […]

From the Desk of Emily Dickinson

Sponsored by the University of California Press In the Review’s February 27 issue, Christopher Benfey reads Emily Dickinson’s letters. “A century of writing about Dickinson has clarified important aspects of her poetry,” he writes (a Dickinson scholar himself, Benfey has contributed to that century with a dozen essays in our pages alone about […]

XII Symposium of the Iliad Institute in Paris

by Henri Levavasseur Arktos Journal Feb 11, 2025 XII Symposium of the Iliad Institute Saturday 5 April 2025 in the Maison de la Chimie, Paris, France The theme will be “Thinking Tomorrow’s Labour: Identity, Community, Power”. Globalization and financialisation, deindustrialisation and tertiarisation, digitisation and dematerialisation, uberisation and casualisation, […]

The Emerging Neomedieval Order

An introduction to the nation-state’s failure and the on-going reversion to medievalism. Blue Vir Feb 04, 2025 “In a real sense, maximum disorder was our equilibrium.” T.E. Lawrence(?) The societies of Western nation-states have undergone much change in the last 50 years. There has been a precipitous drop […]

Direct Action (AFB) Vol 3 #02 February 1948

Direct Action (AFB) Vol 3 #02 February 1948 Including: Communist Party acts for Russian imperialism, crisis in World Trade Union Federation, repression against resistance movement in Spain, Durham miners, London dockers, Consumers’ Co-operatives, Glasgow canteen workers, Bulgaria concentration camps, anarchism in Ukraine 1917-21, etc. Read more 4 hours […]

Vive la Résistance!

Sponsored by the University of California Press De Gaulle, always determined to give the world his version of the great events in which he had been involved, recounts the first of these salvations in The War Memoirs. This work—originally published in three volumes between 1954 and 1959—is justly celebrated for its […]

The Slaveholding Sage of Mount Vernon

Our February 13 issue is now online, with Deborah Eisenberg on Kafka’s ephemera, Blair McClendon on irrepressible Alvin Ailey, Daniel J. Kevles on the human cost of Washington’s Mount Vernon, Giles Harvey on Colm Tóibín, Jessica Riskin on the stubborn determinists,  Robert O. Paxton on Charles de Gaulle’s sonorous […]

Is the Time of the Caesars Upon Us?

by Astral Astral Jan 21, 2025 Astral explores Donald Trump’s rise and its alignment with Oswald Spengler’s theory of Caesarism, analyzing America’s potential transition into an era defined by strongman leadership, imperialism, and cultural decline. Only time will tell if Oswald Spengler’s philosophy of history is a predictive […]

What Happened

In our December 5 issue, Magda Teter reviews a new book ostensibly about the last decades of the Regency of Algiers and “the ties between the land and the sea and between the sea and the history of events, money, and power.” But behind that history, Teter writes, is “a […]

Who Was Jimmy Carter, Really?

Read in browser January 11, 2025 Independent Outlook is the regular round-table conversation from the Independent Institute that provides timely insights and cutting-edge commentary on the most pressing issues of the day. In this episode, Independent’s Fellows discuss the breaking news stories surrounding California’s wildfires. There’s still a […]