Was the Ukrainian Red Famine genocide or incompetence?
Historians are divided on Josef Stalin’s intent in the Ukraine that resulted in millions of deaths. Anne Applebaum’s new book has revived the dispute
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Author: Pat Murphy
Diana’s bad bargain and her enduring mythology
While popular opinion may cast her as a victim, it’s hard to imagine that she’d have given Charles a second thought if he wasn’t the Prince of Wales
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‘Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!’
While it might be silly to argue the Berlin Wall came down because of Ronald Reagan, he demonstrated unusual prescience about the Soviet Union’s fragility
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Two women defined by and celebrated for a single book each
Margaret Mitchell and Harper Lee tackled the peculiarities and flaws of the American South of different eras but still plumbed some universal truths
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The failed fight against fascism
The bombing of Guernica was a flashpoint in the Spanish Civil War, which became a microcosm of worldwide political and ideological schisms for years to come
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