The Paradox of Progress: Mencken on Democracy

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

The Logic of Kamikaze

Ferdinand Magellan's Last Days and Totally Embarrassing Death

Anti-Semitism and the Black Death

Did Germany Really Get Screwed by the Treaty of Versailles?

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

Was Hitler a Good Artist?

Why Justinian’s Foreign Policy Left the Empire Strategically Weaker

Thomas Paine’s Totally Reasonable Deism for an Unreasonable World

The Debate Over Slavery in Early America: Thomas Jefferson vs. Edward Coles

When Wittgenstein Became an Elementary School Teacher

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

On the Trials and Punishment of Oscar Wilde

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