We can't control what's coming. But we can navigate it by developing autonomy and a moral compass. Stoicism builds autonomy; ...

Instead of moving forward, the wheel of history has turned back to the 19 th century world of strongmen and power politics, ...

The Allies understood that partial victory is a moral defeat. Dwight D. Eisenhower entered Germany with the conviction that ...

It is a regrettable fact of secular history that its key inflection points are wars. We might wish it were otherwise, but it isn't and so we ignore the study of war and its relation to political ...

Lessons from World War II. Timothy Snyder's Bloodlands is a powerful history of the Soviet and Nazi political mass murders from 1933 to 1945 in the contiguous area from central Poland to western ...

There are arguably few ancient thinkers as influential in their domains as Socrates, Aristotle, and Confucius. Emerging from different cultures or epochs in time, these three remarkable teachers ...

For at least half a century, at least once every decade in the English-speaking democracies of the West there’s been a moral panic of some sort, usually related to progressive social change. In the ...

The summer’s most popular history-related film is Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster Oppenheimer, about the theoretical physicist and atomic bomb mastermind J. Robert Oppenheimer. The movie comes 78 ...