Oct 23, 2020
Week in review
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On book burning, Louis XIV & lectures on Dostoevsky.
Topic: “History”
Books November 2020
Same as it ever was
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Reconsiderations November 2020
A sergeant abroad
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On the American socialite and expatriate Stuart Preston.
Sep 17, 2020
Palazzo Bonaparte and the Mother of Kings
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On Napoleon’s mother and her life in the Eternal City.
Aug 31, 2020
Globalization 1.0
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A review of The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World and Globalization Began, by Valerie Hansen.
Notes & Comments September 2020
We welcome Myron Magnet
Introducing our second annual Visiting Critic.
Aug 17, 2020
Pax Ottomanica
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A review of “God’s Shadow”: Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World by Alan Mikhail.
Aug 14, 2020
Mules down Malaya
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On VJ Day through the eyes of George Macdonald Fraser.
Jun 03, 2020
Fake news on film
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On Mr. Jones, Walter Duranty & Soviet Russia.
May 29, 2020
Week in review
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On Mozart, Simenon & Sherman.