History
Everyone can help forge a safe ending to what Oppenheimer began
Tilman Ruff
06/08/2023
The Oppenheimer film is a significant artistic work, and by all accounts – including of Kai Bird, the surviving author of the detailed biographical ...
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Reflecting on the Russian Revolution
Reg Naulty
31/03/2023
The Russian writer Konstantin Paustovsky famously remarked that the great Russian humanist intelligentsia, who included Pushkin and Herzen, Tolstoy and ...
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Beethoven, music and human progress
Paul Monk
03/02/2023
One morning a few days ago, a sublimely mild and sunny summer day, I was walking the several kilometres into ...
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Holocaust remembrance: We must beware of well-intentioned mythmaking
Robert Eaglestone
31/01/2023
In ancient Rome, the saeculum, or ‘the age’, was the span of living memory, the telling of an event passed down ...
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The role of rituals in human history
Michelle Langley
30/12/2022
Each December, Christmas, Hanukkah and Kwanzaa, among others, take over our thoughts and our wallets as we participate in ceremonies ...
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Gorbachev’s appeal for peace and freedom
Reg Naulty
24/12/2022
As a world statesman and a student of world affairs, Mikhail Gorbachev’s perspective is worth having. His 2019 book, What ...
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Mikhail Gorbachev wanted to save communism, but buried it instead
Richard Shorten
08/12/2022
The death of Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, under whose leadership the communist bloc was brought to ...
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How Hitler conspiracies and other Holocaust disinformation undermine democratic institutions
Carson Phillips
02/11/2022
Godwin’s Law posits that any online argument, if it continues long enough, will inevitably invoke a comparison to Hitler. Perhaps there ...
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Why the Middle Ages have such a bad reputation
Eduardo Baura García
18/10/2022
“People have the right to live as they wish, we are no longer in the Middle Ages.” This statement, made ...
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Moral ambiguity and the representation of genocide
Charlotte Grace Mackay
20/06/2022
On January 10 2022, the McMinn County School Board in Tennessee voted unanimously to remove Art Spiegelman’s graphic novel Maus ...
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Ukraine as a ‘borderland’: A brief history of Ukraine’s place between Europe and Russia
Sheila Fitzpatrick
07/03/2022
One interpretation of the name ‘Ukraine’ is borderland. This needs to be taken seriously. Borderlands are all about diversity and ...
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Ukraine crisis: The Russian leader’s vision of the past
Paul Monk
01/03/2022
The day that Vladimir Putin sent Russian forces into Ukraine, President Biden spoke publicly about the sheer mendacity of Putin’s ...
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