Category: History and Historiography

The Conspiracy Theory of History Revisited

A classic 1977 article from Murray Rothbard. 12/21/2021 • Mises Daily • Murray N. Rothbard  Anytime that a hard-nosed analysis is put forth of who our rulers are, of how their political and economic interests interlock, it is invariably denounced by Establishment liberals and conservatives (and even by many libertarians) […]

May Day Special

For the sake of the day, May Day, I will be doing a special episode. I have been working on for years, a unified theory of politics, history, and economics that explains the last two-hundred years. I have ended up taking the Hegelian composite approach whereby the thesis […]

The Second Pearl Harbor

The West Loch disaster of May 22, 1944, caused extensive damage to harbor facilities. This article appears in: February 2017 By Gene E. Salecker The first explosion came as a complete surprise to everyone around Pearl Harbor. The Sunday had started out clear and bright, but the sky […]

Geosophy: Neo-Byzantine Approaches to Multipolar Geopolitics and Sacred Geography

by Alexander Wolfheze Arktos Journal Apr 23, 2024 Alexander Wolfheze investigates Greek and Byzantine antetypes and archetypes relevant to the narrative revolution required for a successful Reconquista of the Fallen West: the recognition and imposition of the Geosophical Principle will serve to underpin this Archaeo-Futurist Revolution. PRELIMINARIES ‘Silent […]

V.I. Lenin, 100 Years Later

Vladimir Brovkin, my Harvard professor of Russian history, revisits the life of V.I. Lenin and refutes what he calls the “good Lenin, bad Stalin” myth. (Ep. 2480 of the Tom Woods Show) Sponsors: Want to get your business to the next level? Tom’s mastermind is where you’ll meet […]

Lessons from the Past: Insights into Decentralized, Polycentric, and Anarchist Societies

By Raven Embercroft Decentralized or polycentric societies, characterized by the absence of a central governing authority and the distribution of power among multiple centers, have played significant roles throughout human history. From ancient times to more recent indigenous communities, these social structures have emerged and thrived, offering unique […]

For a French Awakening

by Charles Maurras Arktos Journal Apr 20, 2024 In honor of Charles Maurras’ birthday today, we are publishing the following excerpt from Chapter 1 of For a French Awakening by Charles Maurras (Arktos, 2016). How will France awaken? To what extent have we been right in accepting this […]

The Life of Plato

“The European philosophical tradition consists of a series of footnotes to Plato” — A.N. Whitehead. Plato is the greatest philosopher that ever lived and yet the life of Plato is shrouded in myth and mystery. The challenge with Plato’s biography is knowing where the legend ends and history […]

A Harlem Renaissance Cornucopia

Sponsored by University of California Press Our May 9 issue—the Art Issue—is now online, with Julian Bell on Nicole Eisenman’s extravaganzas, David Shulman on Israel’s break with reality, Ingrid D. Rowland on Canova’s magnificent marbles, Darryl Pinckney on the abundance and eclecticism of the Harlem Renaissance, Marina Harss on […]

Why did Hitler go after art?

He Saw the Cloths and Believed Bishop Robert Barron When scientists pored over the detailed version, what they saw took their breath away. The extraordinary and mysterious Shroud of Turin speaks to us a great Easter truth—namely, that at the heart of Christianity stands, not a myth or […]

J’Accuse Toujours

Nearly 130 years after a hasty and mendaciously conceived court-martial found the innocent Alfred Dreyfus guilty of espionage, “any idea that the Dreyfus Affair was closed for good was illusory,” writes Geoffrey Wheatcroft in the Review’s April 18 issue.“Its repercussions were felt long after—maybe even until today.” The […]

The Price of Stability

In February Prabowo Subianto—who, as a commander and, later, general in the Indonesian army during the “New Order” Suharto dictatorship, had led units accused of human rights abuses in Indonesia and East Timor—was elected president of Indonesia, raising concerns about the future of democracy in the country after […]

Globetrotting: Writers Walk the World

“Fifty writers recount their journeys by foot in this delightful compendium from anthologist Minshull…. Hikers, explorers, and those seeking contemplative journeys will be inspired. ” —Publishers Weekly GLOBETROTTING WRITERS WALK THE WORLD Introduced and edited by Duncan Minshull In Globetrotting, Duncan Minshull, the UK’s “laureate of walking,” brings […]

The Lost Heroic Age: Part Seven

by Rose Sybil Arktos Journal Mar 26, 2024 Rose Sybil unravels the nuanced interactions between genetics, environment, and societal behaviors. Also see parts one, two, three, four, five, and six. Epigenetics, Behavioral Sink, Lysenkoism, and Intra-Race Relations Liberalism, as in globohomo, is not solely a product of any […]

Requiem for the American Empire

“Empires are restless organisms. They must constantly renew themselves; should an empire start leaking energy, it will die.” Gore Vidal Popular Kentucky Is About to Pass the Cruelest Criminal-Justice Bill in America Kentucky Is About to Pass the Cruelest Criminal-Justice Bill in America Paige Oamek and Rohan Montgomery […]

How the Soviets Manipulated Media

Sponsored by London Review of Books Jonathan Steele The Party Line A new book about Western journalists’ experience in Moscow during World War II sheds light on the problems of media manipulation and self-censorship in coverage of Russia today.   Meghan O’Gieblyn The Trouble with Reality William Egginton’s […]

Living on the Ground Floor

Christopher Jolliffe Mar 8, 2024 Christopher Jolliffe reveals the narrow lens through which our era views mental health and the broader implications of scientism on our understanding of human suffering and agency. A recent video, on veterans of the American Civil War, cast into sharp relief the preoccupations […]

Three Kinds of Socialism

I will be joined by Keith Preston to discuss a working schema I have for classifying the socialist left. I see broadly three kinds of Socialist left: (1) Libertarian Socialist (US labor movement, anarchism etc.); (2) Synthetic or Trostksy cultural left and (3) Stalinist or Hydrolic Empire Left. […]

Stardom-crossed Lovers

Sponsored by Hirmer Publishers Frances Wilson ‘Diabolical Fame’ Composed of rhapsody and opinionation, without shape or chronology, Roger Lewis’s biography of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton tries to get at the strangeness of stardom. Linda Greenhouse Social Progress & the Courts For decades Gerald Rosenberg, author of The Hollow Hope, […]

Guy Debord’s Perspective on Stalinism

by Dmitry Moiseev Arktos Journal Feb 28, 2024 Dmitry Moiseev examines Guy Debord’s critique of how Stalin purportedly betrayed Marxist principles and Lenin’s revolution. The critiques of Soviet power in the twentieth century by ideological Marxists were often significantly sharper than those offered by right-wing thinkers. Traditionalists and […]