George Orwell's Socialism

Why Justinian’s Foreign Policy Left the Empire Strategically Weaker

Thomas Paine’s Totally Reasonable Deism for an Unreasonable World

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

Opposing Slavery in Early America: Thomas Jefferson and Edward Coles

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 Life and Times of the Roman Usurper Constantine III (AD 407-411)

Elie Wiesel's Night and the Question of Evil

Marshal Philippe Pétain's Message to the French Youth

The Dangers of Using History for Political Purposes