Christopher Columbus
Circular arguments
Aristotle had long proved that the Earth was spherical, and even the illiterate masses of early medieval Europe were aware of the fact, says James Hannam
The myth of the ‘stolen country’
Last month, in the middle of the COVID panic, a group of freshmen at the University of Connecticut were welcomed…
Is this the end of history?
Midway through Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises, there occurs this exchange between two characters: ‘“How did you go bankrupt?” Bill…
Do we erase Black history when we take down statues?
The Summer Of Our Discontent is in full swing and the social guillotines — at first applied to legitimate injustice…
Self-righteous vandals
Violent left-wing activists have taken to styling themselves as antifa, short for ‘anti-fascists’, though their street-fighting tactics resemble nothing so…
The war of the statues is a battle for freedom
The war of the statues is no longer a battle over the memory of slavery, or the Confederacy, or the…
Spain’s golden age — with a silver lining
As every schoolboy knows, ‘the empire on which the sun never set’ was British, and ‘blue-blooded’ was a phrase applied…
