U.S. leaders limited immigration amid economic and social turmoil. Historians see similarities to Trump’s crackdown, with a catch: He’s doing it without Congress.
ChatGPT By M. Walter I have long wondered if those who lived in pre-Revolutionary America knew somehow that they were living in capital-R Revolutionary times, because I’m wondering if we’re there again.
In the same year as America’s founding, Edward Gibbon wrote “Decline and Fall.” 250 years later, it still holds lessons for us.
Photo Credit:Franz Krüger, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Public Domain By Lars Møller The Myth of Carefree Communism: Why some long for the imagined “freedom from worry” of the defunct GDR.
Many historians have recently seen it as a tame, even disappointing affair. But in the Trump era, the old question of its radicalism is taking on a fresh charge.
Despite voters consistently expressing concerns about cultural replacement, Britain's leaders dismiss grassroots opposition as bigotry.
Photo Credit:Museum of the French Revolution, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Public Domain Much of the misery inflicted on humanity is due to a profound disconnect within human nature, where lofty, idealized, or noble beliefs (ideology) are driven or accompanied by primitive, selfish, or ignoble impulses (psychology).
Edward J. Watts' new book, The Romans: A 2,000-Year History, is not only an excellent introduction to Roman history, but a reminder of why the classics will always be relevant, especially for America.
Trump’s plans for Washington bring to mind what Mussolini did — and tried to do — to Rome.
Have we entered another time of revolution and insurgency? Mastery of the ideological drivers answers...
Have we entered another time of revolution and insurgency? Mastery of the ideological drivers answers only part of the question. Taking a functional approach to the structure and mechanics of revolution is equally if not more important. This means recognizing the underlying preconditions for such a violent state of affairs to burst forward. Revolutions, of course, occurred well before Marx, yet we tend to view them through a Marxist lens, be it Marxist or counter-Marxist. In misperceiving the origins of revolution, we handicap ourselves in trying to prevent or counter them. Few revolutions are led by the poor and oppressed. Violent revolutions are generally orchestrated and led by educated, privileged, upwardly mobile, intellectual…Open