Category: History and Historiography

A New Cosmist Moment

The Cosmists pursued visions of resurrection and immortality but ended up recuperated into Soviet ideology. Modern tech utopians are following in their footsteps. Jun 27, 2024 Pikabu.ru/”Conquest of Space,” Chelyabinsk Polytechnic Institute This article by Alexander Gelland was originally published on Palladium Magazine on August 24, 2023. It […]

The Shining City on the Hill

Contemplating the Myths of a New Dark Age Kenaz Filan Jun 27, 2024 The ruins of a shining city on a hill, with a tattered American flag flying at half mast The American bureaucratic class continues honking toward oblivion in clown cars while we wait for the (literal) […]

“A Black Mass of Patriotism”

In the Review’s July 18 issue, Marilynne Robinson writes about how the violence in America’s history has brought us to an angry present: My subject is the rage and rejection that have emerged in America, threatening to displace politics, therefore democracy, and to supplant them with a figure […]

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 […]

Sticks, Stones, and Bombs

Sponsored by Harvard University Press Isabella Hammad Acts of Language Amid the actual violence of Israel’s assault on Gaza, why have so many writers treated pro-Palestine speech as a threat? Marc Levinson What Is a Supermarket? If the FTC blocks the proposed merger of Kroger and Albertsons, will bigger […]

Reacting/Debunking “Was Karl Marx a Satanist?” Jordan Peterson & Paul Kengor

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The Jews

Elias Canetti The Jews (1962)     Note An image of the Jews that stresses more their dissimilarities than their homogeneity. The only common aspect seems to be their persistence to be considered a people, and in this they are quite like the other semitic people, the Palestinians. […]

JFK’s Peace Speech Got Him Killed

TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 2024 We still find the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry, and grasping at the spoil of the multitude. Invention is continually exercised to furnish new pretenses for revenue and taxation. It watches prosperity as its prey and […]

Stolen Lands

Sponsored by St. Martin’s Press Francisco Cantú A Legacy of Plunder In its reexamination of entrenched narratives about the expropriation of Native land, Michael Witgen’s work is changing how Native people are situated in the arc of North American history. David Toop All That Floats and Drifts André […]

Review: ‘The Sixty-Year Caucasian War’

by Christopher Jolliffe Christopher Jolliffe and Arktos Journal Jun 10, 2024 Christopher Jolliffe reviews the newly released book The Sixty-Year Caucasian War (Antelope Hill, 2024), which deals with the long-standing conflict between Russia and Islamic forces in the Caucasus, examining the implications for contemporary geopolitics and cultural identity. […]

The Myths of Anne Carson

WEB VERSION June 10, 2024 The Myths of Anne Carson Over the last three decades, Anne Carson has forged a unique path in North American arts and letters. An often reserved and opaque writer, sometimes it is hard to tell whether something she has written is supposed to […]

Outstanding Personalities

In our May 9 issue, Darryl Pinckney reviews an extensive survey of “the Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. “If anything,” he writes, “the exhibition liberates the individual African American artist. It says how eclectic the past is in its artistic practices and styles.” Pinckney’s […]

Liberation or Bombardment?

Ed Vulliamy and Pascal Vannier D-Day’s Forgotten Victims Speak Out Eighty years after D-Day, few know one of its darkest stories: the thousands of French civilians killed by a British and American carpet-bombing campaign of little military purpose. Neve Gordon and Penny Green Israel’s Universities: The Crackdown Last October, Palestinian students and […]

The First Christian Millennium

Peter Brown The Workings of the Spirit A new history of Christianity traces its transformation over a thousand years from an enormous diversity of beliefs and practices to Catholic uniformity. Larry Rohter In the Heart of Bahia Itamar Vieira Junior’s first novel, Crooked Plow, tells a story of suffering, […]

Sport or Religion?

by Alexander Dugin Arktos Journal May 28, 2024 Alexander Dugin discusses whether pagan-rooted sport is compatible with Christianity. Sport has pre-Christian origins and is related to ancient Greek culture. Alongside theatre, philosophy, and systems of governance in the polis, sport, and especially the Olympic Games, was one of […]

The Emotional Life of Nations

Preface Chapter 1: The Assassination of Leaders Chapter 2: The Gulf War as a Mental Disorder Chapter 3: The Childhood Origins of Terrorism Chapter 4: Restaging Early Traumas in War and Social Violence Chapter 5: The Psychogenic Theory of History Chapter 6: War as Righteous Rape and Purification […]

Immortal Richard Wagner

by Karl Richter Arktos Journal May 22, 2024 Karl Richter criticises the recent German production of Richard Wagner’s Tannhäuser as reflective of the filth in all of contemporary Germany. According to reports, the medieval singer Tannhäuser, the title character of Richard Wagner’s romantic opera of the same name, […]

Is Christianity True?

Is the Bible history or myth? Are secrets being kept from Christians? We’ll answer these questions and more in our video series. Chapters: 00:00–00:33 – Introduction 00:34–02:06 – Creation, personal experience, Bible 2:07–02:48 – It comes down to the Bible 02:49–03:58 – Secrets kept from Christians 03:59–04:24 – […]

“A Racist, Criminal Project”: Palestinian Historian on 1948 Nakba, Israel’s War on Gaza & U.S. Role

Palestinians across the globe are marking the 76th anniversary of the Nakba — which means “catastrophe” in Arabic — when those establishing the state of Israel violently expelled over 700,000 Palestinians. Palestinian historian Abdel Razzaq Takriti says closer to 900,000 Palestinians were forced out or massacred during Israel’s […]

Teddy Roosevelt: Presidential pugilist

Lifestyle May 14, 2024 Teddy Roosevelt: Presidential pugilist MATT HIMES Our 26th president was the most jacked man ever to occupy the Oval Office. Teddy Roosevelt regularly took his advisors on rough, obstacle-filled hikes through the wilds of Washington, D.C., and frequently boxed at work (a habit he […]

Enlightening Society with Russian History

by Alexander Dugin Arktos Journal May 12, 2024 Alexander Dugin discusses the necessity of revising humanitarian education in Russia to highlight Russian civilisation’s importance, safeguard it from Western biases, and proposes legal measures against disrespect towards Russian identity. You are probably aware that a very serious process of […]

Reading, Reading, Reading

Sponsored by Hadar Two thirds of the way into Peter C. Baker’s review of a recent translation of The Wall, a 1963 postapocalyptic novel by Marlen Haushofer, he arrives at a series of questions that underlie mysteries, science fiction, and, implicitly, literature as a whole: “Why write? Why describe your life […]

Dedicated To A Nazi Hunter

For contest #418, we commemorate a priest who plotted to assassinate Hitler. Chris Bodenner May 11, 2024 ∙ Paid (For the View From Your Window contest, the results below exceed the content limit for Substack’s email service, so to ensure that you see the full results, click the […]