Category: History
Scholars on the Nazis and anti-Semitism have seen this before

The Nazi monstrosity gave birth to a unique positive development: the Nuremberg Tribunal, the idea that all the people of the entire planet should judge and punish the Nazi-type criminals

Will the bumbling efforts of the open societies of the West to come to grips with the virus shattering already-wavering faith in liberal democracy, creating a space for other ideologies to evolve and metastasize?
A history of class war in the U.S.
A voter in Montana gets 31 times the electoral bang for their presidential vote than a voter in New York
Elites, whether theocratic or secular, may be inclined, like Mather, to resort to conspiracy mongering and even engage in their own conspiracies when the social order they preside over seems seriously out of joint
Our country is made better, not worse, by young people reckoning with the full legacy of the institution.

Teaching the unvarnished truth about history was the best way to combat propaganda and unexamined received wisdom

Professional historians have always been skeptical and the very tools of their profession are seditious, because history teaches us that things could have been different (contingency) and can still be different

I danced in the streets after Allende’s victory in Chile 50 years ago. Now I see its lessons for today