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History

History can teach us so much about the world we live in. These essays seek to enlighten the reader on some of the lesser-known events that have shaped the modern world. My aim is to prove that there's more interesting history than World War II.

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

Marshal Philippe Pétain's Message to the French Youth

The Dangers of Using History for Political Purposes

Pascal's Terror: Should We Fear the Eternal Silence of the Infinite Spaces?

H.L. Mencken and the Illusion of Political Progress in a World of Morons

Why did the Eastern Roman Empire Survive?

Hannah Arendt On Totalitarianism (not what you think)

How Sloppy Nazi Analogies Blind Us to the Real Threats

Limitations of Kantian Ethics

Beware the Noonday Demon: The Dark Side of Early Christianity

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