The British Museum has been accused of celebrating fascist imagery and sexism in a new Roman Army exhibition. KCL's Dr Claire Millington seems to object to portraying history accurately, says Guy de la Bédoyère.
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It is the prerogative of every society to believe it is uniquely afflicted by existential threats, ruled by waves of corrupt incompetents and saddled with a feckless, spoiled younger generation of popinjays.
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New York Post, August 29, 2023 Latest Biden coverup — 5,400 emails he sent under secret names by James Bovard In Washington, conning the American people is always considered a victimless crime. The latest DC shellshocker is the National Archives blocking release of 5,000+ emails Vice President Joe Biden wrote using a pseudonym to shroud […]
A trio of Stoics from Ancient Greece offer philosophical opposition to today’s turbo capitalism in this excerpt from “Raging Twenties, Great Power Politics Meets Techno-Feudalism.”
A June 2017 study by scientists at North Carolina State University of skull shapes and skeletons found in ancient graves in Italy has confirmed that mass immigration from outside that country caused a racial change in the population after the establishment of the Roman Empire. The study also confirms the accuracy of cranial measurements as…
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Modern nationalism valorizes a people’s deep, primordial relationship with land, however, for much of Western history claiming foreign ancestry was the key to political legitimacy. By challenging accounts of history that pit virtuous natives against dangerous outsiders, historians promote more inclusive understandings of identity and more open immigration policies.
The most advanced economies of early modern Europe, say England in 1700, were on the surface not too dissimilar to that of ancient Rome. But beneath the surface, they contained the “coiled spring,” or at least the possibility, of sustained economic growth — growth driven by the emergence of innovation (a culture of improvement) and a commercial or even capitalist culture.
