Category: History

• Reading Recommendations, December 2025

  Some books and media I’ve been enjoying recently, and which have shaped my thoughts & views. Check them out over the holiday break.

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• History isn’t Inevitable

  It might sound compelling, but when human decisions don’t create history, redressing historical wrongs can be impossible.

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• There are no ‘Good’ Empires

  You ever watch much Monty Python? I watched it sometimes growing up. In Life of Brian, there’s a scene of Judean rebels who want to…

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  The Imperial Project

  For Five hundred years, our world has been shaped and defined by the fortunes of empires, entities founded on subjugation. But the time of Empire…

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  History and Story-telling

  History is Story-telling, and the story we tell covers up a great deal. What do we forget in our history, and is it time to…

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