Cnut: Danish Warlord and Anglo-Saxon King
March 29, 2017
Timothy Bolton— The events of Cnut’s life are relatively straightforward to chronicle. He was born sometime in the decade before the year 1000 in Denmark, as the second son of… READ MORE
Category: European History
The New Power of Popular Protest
March 23, 2017
Nathan Stoltzfus— The new administration’s condemnation of dissent and the arrogation of more and more power in the president’s hands have made street protest and its images more forceful. The… READ MORE
The Private Life of Il Duce: Mussolini and His Last Lover Claretta Petacci
March 22, 2017
R. J. B. Bosworth— During the American election campaign last year, a splendid cartoon did the rounds. It displayed Donald J. Trump dressed in military and militant uniform. His telling… READ MORE
Conspicuousness/Invisibility
March 14, 2017
Sally McKee— In August, 2014, while all across the United States many African Americans and their allies protested the police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, I sat at… READ MORE
A Time for Russian-U.S. Repentance
March 9, 2017
Johh P. Burgess— Tens of thousands of people gathered in Orthodox churches throughout Russia on Sunday, February 26th. In the church that I attended, the priest spoke of a God… READ MORE
On a Hot Summer’s Day
March 8, 2017
Avner Holtzman— Warsaw, August 1900. Two very young men, Yosef Hayim Brenner and Uri Nissan Gnessin, later to be known as the giants of modern Hebrew literature, were staying in… READ MORE
What the Soviet Story Teaches Us about Sincerity
March 7, 2017
Ellen Rutten— Concerns about sincere expression matter hard today. Social media and e-services are transforming the meaning of trust – in both bad ways (online frauds, hacker interventions) and good (when that… READ MORE
On Writing “William the Conqueror”
March 3, 2017
David Bates— Since William the Conqueror was published, I have often been asked how long it took me to write the book. Although the actual answer is fifteen years, I… READ MORE
Unveiling a Bribery Culture in the Soviet Union
December 21, 2016
James Heinzen— I first became fascinated with the social and cultural dimensions of everyday bribery in the Soviet Union when I was robbed in Moscow in 1992, just after the collapse… READ MORE
Paris’s Centre Pompidou
December 16, 2016
January 31st, 2017 marks the 40th anniversary of the opening of the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the revolutionary building designed by Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers. The building launched the… READ MORE
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