History is a lie: Progress isn’t inevitable
Patrick Wyman’s new book Lost Worlds shatters the myth that we were destined to succeed
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The Grenada invasion could have broken the Reagan-Thatcher relationship. It didn’t
Reagan sidelined Thatcher by invading Grenada without consulting her but the relationship survived anyway
Western intellectuals’ revolutionary fervour has a high body count
From Nazi Germany to revolutionary Iran, history shows how often admiration for “liberation” ends in repression and violence
Why a slave was erased from a family portrait
A young enslaved boy was painted out of a family portrait only to be restored decades later
No, Europeans didn’t invent African slavery
African slavery long predates European involvement, according to a new book
Margaret Thatcher didn’t play the feminist game
Thatcher rejected modern feminist labels but shattered the glass ceiling anyway
Are Cheney and Bobby Kennedy relics of another time?
Cheney and Kennedy shaped U.S. politics in starkly different ways. Their legacies reveal how much American power and party identity have changed
