Francis Fukuyama, best known for his book The End of History and the Last Man, now aims to tackle all human history, middle, beginning and […]
Harry Potter and the tide of history
The final installment of the Harry Potter movie series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II, has been accompanied by chatter about what it […]
Trapped in history: “Cave of Forgotten Dreams”
In December 1994, explorers walking through southern France’s rocky environment found a slight disturbance in the air, coming from the rocks. They began to dig […]
Too many teachers reject or ignore evolution
Something needs to be done about teachers who simply refuse to educate kids. We’re not talking the anti-union, anti-teacher rhetoric of the news media and […]
Labor Department official says U.S. needs independent labor media
Generally, I avoid posting news articles I’ve written here, but this is on an important topic, and it is a subject rarely covered in the news […]
Nelson Mandela’s conversations – a review
Watching Invictus, the 2009 movie based on Nelson Mandela’s attempts to unify South Africa through rugby, then considered an Afrikaner sport, the viewer can’t help […]
Harry Potter and Deathly Hallows, darkest and best of series yet
The 20th century wasn’t a particularly good one in historical terms: more people were killed in war than in previous centuries combined; we saw fascist […]
From Fatwa to Jihad
Most comments on the rise of radical Islam tend to fall into either a left or right wing version of political scientist Samuel P. Huntington’s […]
Book Review: The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves—and Why it Matters
Over the past few months, North Korea has been been in the headlines even more than usual. A partial list includes a revelation through the […]
Aisha points to a peace movement in malaise
Most people have now seen the cover of the August 9th issue of Time magazine, which depicts a portrait of Aisha, the 18-year-old Afghan girl […]
