History - Rationale Magazine

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ian Robinson 20/01/2022

Most nations – the United States, Greece, Finland, India, Indonesia and many others – celebrate their national day on the ...

James A. T. Lancaster 24/12/2021

When English Puritans outlawed Christmas in 1647, it was not without good reason. When American Puritans, in turn, outlawed Christmas ...

Reg Naulty 05/11/2021

Tolstoy’s death in 1910 occurred just seven years before the Russian Revolution. His last two essays What’s To Be Done? ...

Melissa Chim 03/11/2021

Books have always had the power to cast a spell over their readers – figuratively. But one book that was ...

Stephen Mooney 05/07/2021

The overwhelming majority of Australians who have served in war zones have been volunteers. However, during the Vietnam war, 63,735 ...

Melissa Bailey 30/06/2021

Ancient Egyptian culture and practices have intrigued historians and archaeologists for years. Thought to be the pre-eminent civilisation in the ...