The Dark History of Anti-Semitic Violence During the Black Death

The Myth that Germany Got Screwed by the Treaty of Versailles

Was Orwell a Socialist? (oh yes, he was!)

Why Justinian’s Foreign Policy Left the Empire Strategically Weaker

Thomas Paine’s Totally Reasonable Deism for an Unreasonable World

Slavery in Early America: Thomas Jefferson vs. Edward Coles

Wittgenstein's Lost Schoolteacher Years (1918-1926)

About The Time a Murderous, Polygamous, Doomsday Sex Cult Took Over Münster

The Trials and Punishment of Oscar Wilde

José Ortega y Gasset's "The Revolt of the Masses" a Century Later

Thucydides, the Melian Dialogue, and Keeping the (Russian) Jungle at Bay

An Introduction to the Byzantine Emperor Heraclius

Karl Marx's Analysis of the American Civil War

A Brief History of Marshal Petain and Vichy France

Why Grant Was Better Than Lee

Three "Degenerate" Artists Murdered by the Nazis

Was Hitler a Good Artist?

Albert Camus on the Rebel in the Modern World

The Rise and Fall of Constantine III (407-411 CE)

Elie Wiesel's Night and the Question of Evil