Tag: European History

  • Audiobook Review: The World of Tolkien

    Dimitra Fimi’s Great Courses lecture series on Tolkien is essential listening for teachers. Thirty-minute episodes, expert scholarship, and a standout lecture on gender and race make this a classroom must. #Audiobook #BookReview #Tolkien

  • What If the 1848 Revolutions Had Succeeded?

    The 1848 revolutions across Europe failed due to isolated movements lacking coordination, impacting future nationalism, but the Bohemia Players’ hypothetical influence suggests possible success through cultural collaboration.

  • The Halls That Built the West: Five Universities That Shaped a Thousand Years of Learning

    Posted for April 23 — St. George’s Day, and a fitting moment to celebrate the medieval English and European academic traditions that gave us the modern university Every August, students across the globe pack up belongings, move into dormitories, and begin a ritual that feels deeply modern: signing up for courses, sitting in lecture halls,…

  • What If: The King Who Walked Away

    Following George III’s abdication in 1783, Britain transformed into a Commonwealth, implementing radical reforms, promoting representation, and fostering economic growth, reshaping its governance and global influence.

  • The Long Ledger: Part 3

    Free Markets as Foreign Policy Trade Agreements, Capitalist Hegemony, and the Limits of Economic Freedom, 1991–2008 When the Berlin Wall came down in 1989, something unusual happened in Western intellectual life: a significant number of serious people decided that history had ended. Not literally, of course, but in the sense that the great contest of…

  • The Long Ledger: Part 4

    The Incubator Terror, China, and the Fracturing Dollar Order, 2000–2025 History rarely announces its turning points. The ones that seem obvious in retrospect were not always recognized as pivots in the moment; they were recognized as catastrophes, opportunities, or curiosities, and only later assembled into the narratives we use to explain them. The first twenty-five…