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Recognizing Complicity
"Modernism was not an idea, not a singular and well-formed position. The multiplicity and heterogeneity of its dimensions have to be addressed."
History
"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." — George Bernard Shaw
Thomas Cromwell, a Man for All Treasons
That a public man such as Thomas Cromwell can be understood so differently by writers acting in good faith is due to a number of factors: his distance from us in time, our incomplete record of his correspondence, the nature of politics, and the nature of observation.
The Liar: The Four Personas of Adolf Eichmann
"A man who wears so many masks is always tempted to reveal who he is."
Whose Dublin?
Dublin’s duality, as Dickson subtly instructs us, remains the key to the city’s identity, from its muddy beginnings to its world-stage present.
A Dip into the Forests of the Brain
Neuroscience, neurons, consciousness.
Black Left, Black List
“Let’s imagine…a history in which words like 'leftist,' 'radical,' and 'communist' did not summon instant skepticism if not scorn; a world in which these terms could sustain real dialogue.”
A Bloody Affair
Contributor Guy Stagg reviews "Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence" by Karen Armstrong.
What Is to Be Done?
Knox Peden on "The History Manifesto" by Jo Guldi and David Armitage.
Where the Past Is Always in the Present Tense
The continuing malaise, 70 years later.
Strange Bedfellows: The Modernists and the Nazis
A study of the sometimes unhealthy alliance between artists and power.
The Definitive History of Postwar Britain
As postwar Britain’s financial prospects changed, so too did the rhythms and habits of its daily life.
The Art of Critique: Victor Serge’s “Midnight in the Century”
“Personalism” combines the radical libertarian belief in the importance of the individual with the communist belief in the importance of the entire community. Victor Serge was its greatest champion.
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