Thinking Out Aloud

This is the second part of my review of Jean Gimpel’s The Medieval Machine: The Industrial Revolution of the Middle Ages . The first part wa...

There is surely no period of European history that is loaded down with more misconceptions than the medieval period. It is regularly dismiss...

Commenter Fred, in response to my previous post , asked: How would you respond to Steve Sailer's arguments about the existence (and rele...

This extends a comment I made here . Attempts to get racial definitions in law are inherently fraught, since "race" is not inheren...

William Dalrymple’s Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India is a highly readable, engaging, even enchanting, examination of re...

This is the third part of my review of Claudia Koonz’s The Nazi Conscience , a study of the Nazi attempt to inculcate an ethnic and racial m...

This is the second part of my review of Claudia Koonz’s The Nazi Conscience , a study of the Nazi attempt to inculcate an ethnic and racial ...