Napoleon film, Kissinger’s death and world history
The way you tell the story of Napoleon reveals how the historian imagines the plot of…
How the Mongol Horde Changed the World🎙️Interview
🎙️Interview with Marie Favereau on The Horde Last week I interviewed, French historian, Marie Favereau on…
How to nurture empathy through the Israel-Gaza Crisis – new podcast
“We are on the verge of the abyss in the Middle East…” António Guterres, UN Secretary-General…
culture / history / literature
New Article: Reflections on Patrick White’s Nobel Prize and Australian cultural history
My thoughts on Australian cultural history on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Patrick White’s…
Why read Olga Tokarczuk, Winner of 2018 Nobel Prize for Literature? Podcast Ep. 120
Why read Olga Tokarczuk, Winner of 2018 Nobel Prize for Literature? Find out in this fourth…
Podcast #119 Why read Patrick White, (1973 Nobel Prize), exile at home?
It turns out, despite his stern reputation, Patrick White can laugh, smile and even pat a…
Blood and Ruins: the Great Imperial War 1931-45, Richard Overy
I have begun reading Richard Overy, Blood and Ruins: the Great Imperial War 1931-45 (2021). This new comprehensive world history of World War Two renames, redates and rethinks that conflict that still dominates the mental world of world leaders
Podcast on 1923 Nobel Prize for Literature, W.B. Yeats.
On the podcast this week I did the second of my series on the Nobel Prize, and featured the winner of the 1923 Nobel Prize for Literature, William Butler (W.B.) Yeats.
culture / history / literature
Endurance in War and Politics for Non-Political Souls
I wrote in my previous post about the rhetoric of “as long as it takes” on…
Stabs in the Back, Countered Knock-Out Blows, Ukraine and World War One
Meanwhile, in another cauldron of the unruly multipolar world, the Ruin of Ukraine continues. I am still holding back from commenting deeply on the Ukraine War, but there were some interesting comments I noticed during the week that coincidentally resonated with my reading 1916: A Global History. History it seems is repeating in 2023.