Ivan’s Singer
Image Source: Franz Riss Skomorokh in a village, wikipedia Noone knows for sure how Ivan the…
Image Source: Franz Riss Skomorokh in a village, wikipedia Noone knows for sure how Ivan the…
Civilizations and natures From time to time, I am tempted to be a prophet of a…
Image source: Böcklin: In der Gartenlaube, ~1891, By Arnold Böcklin – “Von Anker bis Zünd, Die…
From Niccolo Machiavelli’s letter to the magnificent Lorenzo de Medici in presenting his The Prince: Nor…
I am reading Andrew Scull’s Madness in Civilization: a cultural history of insanity from the Bible…
The Parliament of Victoria recently voted an apology for laws that criminalised homosexuality. It followed a…
Roger Scruton writes, in How to be a Conservative: Whatever our religion and our private convictions,…
If I were to teach a course on the history of Australians in the global nineteenth…
Ivan the Terrible tests the limits of historical understanding. All that we know of him we…
I aspire to write history not like a dry professor, but more like the shimmering mysteries…