Alexander Dugin’s Cosmic War
I share the vision of René Guénon and Julius Evola, who considered modernity and the ideologies derived from it—individualism, liberal democracy, capitalism, and so on—to be the causes of the…
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History
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Stalin, Putin and the Falsification of History
Patriotism corrupts history.—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1817) Long before the latest iteration of cancel culture, there was a punishment known as damnatio memoriae (the condemnation of a person’s memory). First…
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Christopher Hitchens, the Conservative Marxist
How Hitchens Can Save the Left: Rediscovering Fearless Liberalism in an Age of Counter-Enlightenment by Matt Johnson (2023). A review. There has been a gaping void in our political and…
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Nev March: History and Mystery
In this episode of our Two for Tea podcast, editor-in-chief Iona Italia talks to novelist Nev March about her latest book, Peril at the Exposition, an intricately plotted and lushly descriptive historical…
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Transcending Race
A Review of Kenan Malik’s Not So Black and White: A History of Race from White Supremacy to Identity Politics (Hurst Publishers, 2023) Race remains one of society’s great delusions. It is modern civilisation’s most enduring superstition.…
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The Disappointments of Liberalism: Luke Savage’s “The Dead Center”
A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.—Robert Frost Liberals have long prided themselves on their pragmatism and moderation. While radical movements on…
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Unidentified Fascist Objects: Flying Saucers, Holocaust Deniers and Nazi UFOs
The idea that Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party secretly constructed flying saucers during the Second World War, either with extra-terrestrial aid or via their own innate Teutonic technological genius,…
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Unusual Bodies: A Conversation with Alice Dreger
In this episode of our Two for Tea podcast, editor-in-chief Iona Italia talks to researcher, journalist, historian of science and novelist Alice Dreger—one of the most fascinating polymaths among the current…
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Who’s Black and Why? An Interview with Andrew Curran
In this episode of our Two for Tea podcast, editor-in-chief Iona Italia talks to Andrew Curran about his new anthology, prepared in collaboration with Henry Louis Gates, Who’s Black and Why: A…
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Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò’s “Against Decolonisation”
The idea of decolonisation has been a fad in western discourse for the past few years. Of course, when one thinks of decolonisation, the national liberation movements that engulfed Africa…
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Reasons to Be Jubilant
On 2 June, I travelled down to London to attend one of those unusual events that somehow manage to be at once an embodiment of the stereotypical idea of what…
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The 1619 Project: An Oversimplified Explanation
Casual critics of the 1619 Project usually focus on its basic conceit: the idea that the true founding of the United States occurred when the first African captives arrived in…
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White People and the Conversation About Race
It is always saddening when reasonable, thoughtful people fail to understand each other’s point of view in important conversations. It is even more unfortunate when they fail to respect each…
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Misunderstanding the History of US-Philippine Relations
There are complicated but long-standing ties between the Southeast Asian nation of the Philippines and its former colonizer the United States, despite the history of conflict between the two nations.
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The First Freedom: Free Speech: A History by Jacob Mchangama
In President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s 1941 State of the Union address, he spoke of a “world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression—everywhere…
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The Enduring Importance of Eric Williams’ “Capitalism and Slavery”
As a new generation grapples with the effects of racism and capitalism, it is no surprise that Penguin Modern Classics has been publishing new editions of classic texts authored by…
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The Empire That Wasn’t: The German Hanse
More than fifty years after its first publication—and now in its sixth (posthumous) edition—The German Hansa, by the French historian Philippe Dollinger, remains a classic. Written in a scholarly yet…
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Was Athenian Democracy Dependent on Imperialism?
“The paradox of ancient Greek democracy is that the freedom and rights of citizens depended on the subjugation and exploitation of others,” declares the University of New Brunswick classicist Matthew…
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