Thinking Out Aloud

Michael McCormick’s Origins of the European Economy: Communications and Commerce AD300-900 is like reading a rolling, scholarly detective s...

Protocols of Zion is a documentary by very (US) liberal filmmaker Mark Levin. Mark Levin's specific politics are not mine, but his broa...

V. S. Naipaul ’s Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey is one of his famous travelogues. Originally published in 1981—but reissued after ...

If am asked what folk should read to understand global history, part of my answer would be anything by Angus Maddison . Growth and Interacti...

Ronald Long’s Men, Homosexuality and the Gods: An exploration into the Religious Significance of Male Homosexuality in World Perspective is...

Revisiting the Great Depression is a hardy perennial of economic history that has added force in recent times due to the recent global finan...

A fascinating insight into the origins of modern political action is provided by The Red Millionaire: A political biography of Willi Munzenb...

Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything was on my books-to-read for a consultancy I was doing, and I moved i...

Picked up in Readings (or it might have been Borders ) some time ago A Manual of Hadith by Maulana Muhammad Ali , originally published in ...

In the late C19th Australians had a higher average income than Americans. As country rich in natural resources with a small population and e...

I have done some reading on the Pirenne thesis , because I am particularly interested in the transition from late Antiquity to medieval Euro...

Elaine Pagels is the premier contemporary populariser of current Biblical scholarship. Her The Origins of Satan is a reworking of (or st...

The Gates of Power: Monks, Courtiers and Warriors in Premodern Japan by Mikael S Adolphson is a narrative history of political demonstratio...

One of the striking things about many of the opponents of same-sex marriage is their lack of a sense of history. To them, marriage has been ...