History

A Century Ago G.K. Chesterton Had an Accidentally Accurate Vision of an Islamic Britain 0
- Literature, History, Religion
- May 22, 2024
29 May sees 150 years since the birth of G.K. Chesterton, the once-famed English writer and Catholic apologist – now a deeply unfashionable figure. Perhaps the single book which sums up best why Chesterton is not much read on university syllabuses today is his 1914 novel The Flying Inn, also celebrating 110 years in print in 2024.
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Are You a Servant of Tyranny or Liberty?1
- Culture, History
- May 20, 2024
In 1788, George Washington wrote letters to the Marquis de Lafayette during the process of ratifying the proposed Constitution by the states. Washington made clear to General Lafayette the essentials to prevent the new American republic from devolving into “despotic or oppressive form”: limited delegated powers to the government, checks and balances, and “virtue in the body
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Why Hitler Loved ‘Social Justice’5
- History, Culture
- May 16, 2024
In August 1920 in Munich, a young Adolf Hitler delivered one of his first public speeches before a crowd of some 2,000 people. During his speech, which lasted nearly two hours and was interrupted nearly 60 times by cheers, Hitler touched on a theme he’d repeat in future speeches, stating he did not believe that
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Has ‘The New York Times’ Always Been ‘Fake News’?9
- History, Culture, Featured
- May 15, 2024
The New York Times is widely regarded as the newspaper of record in the United States. Founded in 1851 to appeal to a cultured, intellectual readership rather than a mass audience, the Gray Lady has won a record-breaking 137 Pulitzer Prizes, including for its reporting on the infamous Pentagon Papers. In times of sharp political
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How Historical Revisionism Hides ‘Oppenheimer’s’ Secrets 7
- Culture, Entertainment, Featured, History
- May 13, 2024
Since its release in the summer of 2023, critics and fans have not stopped talking about Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer. But the more I watch and read people’s views on the film, the more I suspect that a large number of us completely missed the artistic thrust of the project. Oppenheimer, based on the Pulitzer-winning book
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Was America Evil to Drop Atomic Bombs on Japan?8
- History
- May 1, 2024
During a recent appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast, Tucker Carlson made a bold claim about the August 1945 decision by the United States to bomb the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki—a move that effectively put an end World War II. He said: My ‘side’ has spent the last 80 years defending the
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