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A new book argues that worship of the Bible has distorted our politics

The historian David Hollinger complains that leading op-ed columnists writing on Evangelical white nationalism are ignoring the work of professional historians on the topic: religiondispatches.org/the-critiques-…

On Robot Bosses: jacobin.com/2024/06/ai-alg…

Jack London’s writings might have killed Lenin. From George Orwell's introduction to Jack London stories (h/t Harrison Fluss)

The War of the Worlds broadcast was meant to demonstrate the power of “fake news” and to discredit Father Coughlin (h/t Harrison Fluss):

Kojève thought of himself as a god, and in particular Zeus. He likened Merleau-Ponty to Apollo given his good looks (from Stanley Rosen's Hermeneutics as Politics—h/t Harrison Fluss)

Congrats Chris! He’s a great writer!

We are being led toward the abyss by the same braindead ghouls who haven’t made a correct foreign policy decision in half a century. They march us from one quagmire to the next and we all clap along like circus seals rolling on ecstasy. I’m sure this one will go just fine too.

It is downright puzzling that millions of people aren’t protesting in the streets every day to demand de-escalation with Russia.

“Pulling civilization from the brink” should be the watchword of every popular movement on both sides of the Atlantic.
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Lieb dich bis Dienstag: “Bowie was held by Polish customs officers for carrying Nazi paraphernalia in his luggage, along with books about the prominent henchmen of Hitler, Joseph Goebbels and Albert Speer. According to his tour photographer Andrew Kent, there is allegedly a photo

Didn't realize that Stalin thought that FDR might have been murdered: 'Roosevelt's sudden death in April 1945 shocked and distressed Stalin Instinctively suspicious, he suspected foul play. His intelligence reports told him anti-Soviet hard-liners were gaining ground in

In an effort to support historians in a time of few academic jobs, Alvita Akiboh & I are hosting a SHAFR Summer Institute in June 2025 for advanced PhD students working in the history of U.S. foreign relations, broadly defined. Applications are now open.
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Kojève thought of himself as a god, and in particular Zeus. He likened Merleau-Ponty to Apollo given his good looks (from Stanley Rosen's Hermeneutics as Politics—h/t Harrison Fluss)

George Kennan on returning to Moscow in 1944: “It gave me an indescribable sort of satisfaction to feel myself back again in the midst of these people—with their tremendous pulsating warmth and vitality. I sometimes feel that I would rather be sent to Siberia among them . . .

Laissez-faire as the road to serfdom: 'Many thought that the disasters of authoritarianism in Europe were the products of the laissez-faire brutality, inefficiency, and inequity in the interwar years. “Nobody in Europe,” wrote British historian A. J. P. Taylor in 1945, any longer

'The Nazis had run France with just 1,500 German functionaries.' google.com/books/edition/…

For every American who would die in World War II, 'thirteen Germans and seventy Russians would perish.'google.com/books/edition/…