Blogs tagged "history"

Unruly steeds from King Mu’s mythology, cavorting across a silk scroll.

A bestselling 18th-century cookbook, containing the first recipe for curry in English.

A wondrous illuminated manuscript, which gathers and illustrates the marvels of the world and beyond.

Sustaining ambitious governance journalism and sponsoring PALLADIUM 20: Noblesse Oblige and beyond. The post Pardon U...

An alliance of German artists and industrialists forged the visual order of contemporary life, from skyscrapers to sm...

When the dominant culture abandons cultivating taste and aesthetics through creative excess, they leave open opportun...

LAST MONTH American Affairs published my review of Alexander Karp’s The Technological Republic. While I had plenty cr...

ALEXANDER KARP AND NICHOLAS ZAMISKA'S The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West...

I WILL NOT ATTEMPT to eulogize the martyr. Others have done this already—and done so with such skill that anything I ...

This week we’re going to take a look at mercenaries in the ancient Mediterranean world! This was one of the runners-u...

This week, continuing in the vein of some of our previous strategy and military theory primers, I wanted to off a bas...

Hey folks, Fireside this week! I have ended up a bit behind in my work and as always it is the blog that much suffer ...